The New York Times’s A.O. Scott makes the good point, during the following video commentary on Babette’s Feast, that although the pickins for Best Thanksgiving Movie are pretty meager (and inescapably American, obvs), most movies revolving around a big meal or feast could be adapted by even the least flexible families as their Turkey Day tale.

Therefore, behold, the top 3 from Chow.com’s nominees for Best Food Scene in a Movie:

• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Goodfellas
• Delicatessen

Despite the strong start – the original Willy Wonka, of course! – the list gets a little unimaginative thereafter. Solutions after the jump.

Still not satisfied with the first helping of movie meals, we turn to FilmCritic.com’s list for seconds that are a little more filling. Their Top 25 Memorable Movie Meals strikes gold for a series of brilliant picks as it enters the top 10:

11. Lady and the Tramp
10. Hannibal
9. The Gold Rush
8. Tampopo
7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
6. Pulp Fiction

With neither of the above lists completely satisfying our hunger for a good meal movie, here are some Listicles additions as a dessert treat:

• Titus: Julie Taymor’s super-stylized Shakespeare adaptation about a dysfunctional clan eating their own (metaphorically and, in the end, literally) might be just the catharsis you need.

• Marie Antoinette: Another beautiful movie the whole family can enjoy for its pretty colors, costumes, wigs, sets, set pieces and foods.

• Fanny and Alexander: Long enough to last most of the holiday (more film time means less face time!), Ingmar Bergman’s family period epic has a great meal scene that’ll make you wish your family was full of drunken, adulterous Swedish patriarchs. Oh wait, it is? Never mind then.

• Gosford Park: Robert Altman’s upstairs-downstairs upper-class English murder mystery has servants and serfs enjoying parallel meals with varying degrees of antagonism and enthusiasm.

• Ratatouille: Yes, there are rats in the kitchen, but when you get down to it, isn’t this whole holiday really about acceptance, taking the good with the bad, and all that mushy stuff?

• Jurassic Park: Admittedly, Spielberg’s dinosaur blockbuster is all about eating, but one scene makes this an appropriate Thanksgiving pick. Famished from being chased through the night, Lex and Tim happen upon a feast in the visitors center, which they tuck into with glee. While stuffing themselves, three other hungry mouths come along and follow Tim and Lex into the kitchen:

Happy Thanksgiving, and if your family’s raptors get unruly in the kitchen just tell them to behave or else you’ll put them on time out in the freezer.