The best foodie moments in the movies

In many movies, food is more than just a prop. From a pie in the face like in 'Bugsy Malone' or a relationship-defining moment like the fridge scene in 'Nine and a Half Weeks', food has played an important role in numerous plots. Here are some of our favorites.

Who can forget the scene of the feast where our hero is served chilled monkey brains and sheep's eyeball soup? Not to mention the giant python from whose body hundreds of eels descended on the table, giving kids around the world nightmares for weeks.

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This is still one of the sweetest food scenes in film history. Lady and the Tramp have a romantic dinner outside an Italian restaurant and everything is perfect. When he nudges the meatball to Lady with his nose, our hearts melt - and the spaghetti kiss will stay with us forever.

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'Food Glorious Food'. A spectacular song dedicated to all the food that poor Oliver Twist and all his friends dream about while only being given gruel. Can you remember all the different foods mentioned in the song?

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The opening scene in the diner is just brilliant. We all know Tarantino loves a good diner, and the dialogue is some of the best on the screen. But then, as the end of the conversation with the waitress nears, the diner's quiet hum is broken as our modern-day Bonnie and Clyde pull out their guns to demand the attention and money of the entire restaurant.

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Alan Parker's brilliant film shows child gangsters whose guns fire cream pies instead of bullets. It also features a young Jody Foster in the role of a lifetime. The final scene has chaos reign as you witness possibly the greatest-ever food fight on the screen.

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This steamy 80s film starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke shocked, amazed, and made stars of the two lead actors. One of the most memorable scenes is the one where Rourke feeds Bassinger in a very messy midnight feast to the brilliant track of 'Bread and Butter' by The Newbeats.

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Everybody's favourite underdog. When tough-guy deadbeat Rocky gets a chance to fight the world champion, he needs to change his lifestyle and start training seriously. Part of the training is a morning run, but not after a spot of breakfast. In the scene, Rocky cracks five raw eggs into a glass and downs them in one. No cuts, no fake liquid, just five raw eggs - this scene can really make someone sick.

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After being held captive for 15 years and given fried dumplings every day, I'm sure you'd want a change... but perhaps not so dramatic? In the memorable scene, the lead eats a still-wiggling live octopus. Raw fish is a delicacy in some countries, but generally, the fish has to be dead.

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Paul Newman, in one of his greatest roles, bets the prison inmates where he resides that he could eat fifty hard-boiled eggs in one hour. He wins the bet (and the admiration of the other inmates) and by the end of the scene, his stomach (as one inmate describes) looks like a watermelon that is about to burst open.

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Capo Peter Clemenza is wasted as a wise guy. In one scene in this classic film, he gives us his own recipe for tomato sauce. "You start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes, and tomato paste, you fry it, you make sure it doesn't stick. You get it to boil, you shove in all your sausage and meatballs. A little bit of w1ne and a little bit of sugar. That's my trick."

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In this enjoyable Tim Burton musical Sweeney Todd takes revenge on those who destroyed his life and a few others. But the shocking moment of revelation comes when we discover that, as if murdering customers wasn't bad enough, this crazed barber had his partner in crime turn the bodies into delicious pies.

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Knowing that he is going to wake up in the morning, living the same day over and over, Phil the weatherman takes full advantage of it and orders the most spectacular amount of food while Andie MacDowell's character stares in amazement.

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The pet detective has a couple of scenes in the film involving food, but the part when he is talking to his colleague (played by Courteney Cox) at a very exclusive and posh party is our favorite. He jams four pieces of asparagus into the front of his mouth and asks: "Do I have something in my teeth?"

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At the start of the strange friendship between Hannibal Lecter and Agent Starling, Hannibal tells the FBI agent that he doesn't like basic forms of questioning. He then delivers a line that sends shivers down the spine of many people. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Chilling.

You may have gotten to the end of the list and are frustrated because we missed a favorite of yours... I mean, we could do a whole gallery just on coffee in the movies...

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