We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: food is more than just food. It’s identity, culture, family, home. And movie directors know it too. As such, food is often imbued with some pretty strong symbolism and is an agent for stories of poverty and wealth, comedy and tragedy, love and lust. Here, the 11 best scenes, featuring Italian foods, in both domestic and international productions:

La Grande Abbuffata (1973): Bavarese alle fragole
Four wealthy men decide to eat themselves to death and lock themselves in a farmhouse near Paris in this French-Italian film: the finale of this lethal, Lucullan meal–which includes liver pâté, tortellini with cream and mushrooms, crepes suzette and kilos upon kilos of meat–is bavarese alle fragole, a strawberry Bavarian cream pudding, shaped like a pair of breasts.