Like Water for Chocolate
Film1992105 min7.3/10 on TMDB
Directed by Alfonso Arau
In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
The story
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Lumi CavazosTita
Marco LeonardiPedro Muzquiz
Regina TornéMamá Elena
Mario Iván MartínezJohn Brown
Ada CarrascoNacha
Yareli ArizmendiRosaura
Claudette MailléGertrudisPilar Aranda
Pilar ArandaChencha
Farnesio de Bernal
Joaquín GarridoSergeant Treviño
Margarita IsabelPaquita LoboSandra Arau
Sandra ArauEsperanzaExplore the crew
- Director
- Alfonso Arau
- Producer
- Alfonso Arau
- Director of Photography
- Steven Bernstein
- Director of Photography
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Editor
- Carlos Bolado
- Screenplay
- Laura Esquivel
- Editor
- Francisco Chili
- Original Music Composer
- Leo Brouwer