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Like Water for Chocolate

Original title: Como agua para chocolate

In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.

  • Movie
  • 1992
  • R
  • 1h 45m

Directed by Alfonso Arau

7.3

TMDB audience rating
7.3 out of 10 from 573 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Lumi Cavazos

    Lumi CavazosTita

  • Marco Leonardi

    Marco LeonardiPedro Muzquiz

  • Regina Torné

    Regina TornéMamá Elena

  • Mario Iván Martínez

    Mario Iván MartínezJohn Brown

  • Ada Carrasco

    Ada CarrascoNacha

  • Yareli Arizmendi

    Yareli ArizmendiRosaura

  • Claudette Maillé

    Claudette MailléGertrudis

  • Pilar ArandaChencha

  • Farnesio de Bernal

    Farnesio de BernalCura

  • Joaquín Garrido

    Joaquín GarridoSergeant Treviño

  • Margarita Isabel

    Margarita IsabelPaquita Lobo

  • Sandra ArauEsperanza

  • Rodolfo Arias

    Rodolfo AriasJuan Alejándrez

  • Andrés García Jr.Alex Brown

  • Arcelia Ramírez

    Arcelia RamírezBisnieta

  • Regino HerreraNicolás

  • Genaro AguirreRosalio

  • David Ostrosky

    David OstroskyJuan de la Garza

Director
Alfonso Arau
Writer
Laura Esquivel
Music
Leo Brouwer
Cinematography
Steven Bernstein and Emmanuel Lubezki