The Best Offer (2013), Finding Vivian Maier (2013), The Red Violin (1998), The Price of Everything (2018), The Cocoanuts (1929), Dressed to Kill (1946), The War of the Roses (1989), The Walking Stick (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Auction House movies.
Storyline: In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in restoring and reassembling some odd mechanical parts he finds amongst Claire's belongings, while also giving him advice on how to befriend her and deal with his feelings towards her. Also a friend of Oldman, Billy Whistler helps him to acquire a secret private collection of master paintings.
Plot Keywords: auctioneer, heiress, art expert, friend, suspenseful, thrilling, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Real estate agent John Maloof explains how a trip to a local auction house, in search for old pictures to use for a history book about his neighborhood, resulted in him bidding and winning a box full of old negatives. John goes through the massive quantity of negatives, describes how impressed he is by the quality of the images, becomes quickly determined they are not reverent to his project and just puts them away. That could have very likely had been the end of the story, if the power of the images had not pushed him to fall in love with photography. John confides that his photo hobby quickly motivated him to set up a darkroom and devote large amounts of time printing. As he learned more about photography, he recognized that those negatives he had bought, then stored, were the work of a real master. In an attempt to confirm his suspicion, he selected about 100 images and put them online with the hope that the feedback would confirm his judgement as to the strength of the images.—Lane J. Lubell of Cinemashadow.com
Plot Keywords: nanny, photographer, john, engaging, auction house, talent, work ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin."
Plot Keywords: musical prodigy, gypsy, servant, husband, violinist, appraiser, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and our times -- where everything can be bought and sold.—lisa remington
Plot Keywords: artist, art collector, art critic, art dealer, intellectual, critic, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. A subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob Adams.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: hotel owner, wealthy woman, daughter, guest, clerk, brother, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery, visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night. Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive pieces in his vast collection. The previous night, someone broke into his flat and knocked him unconscious when he tried to intervene. All they took however was a simple wooden music box he had bought at auction that day for a mere £2. The box was one of three available for sale and as Holmes and Watson begin to trace the other purchasers, it becomes apparent that someone will stop at nothing, including murder, to retrieve all three. When Holmes learns the identity of the music box maker, he is convinced it contains directions to the retrieval of something very valuable that the government has kept from the public.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, inspector, femme fatale, criminal, thief, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, lawyer, son, daughter, brash, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, artist, criminal, art collector, emotional, suspenseful, london ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Plot Keywords: socialite, king, married woman, security guard, husband, offbeat, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sinbad is a story teller who weaves great adventures about - himself. Whether they are true or not, no one knows. For this is the story of the eight adventures of Sinbad - as told by Sinbad. A ship saved by Sinbad and Sabu. A treasure map to the treasure of Alexander the Great, which mysteriously disappears from the ship. The beautiful Shireen - the woman who has stolen the heart of Sinbad. The evil Amir who wants the treasure for himself to own the world. The deadly Melik, who will stop at nothing and kill anyone to have the treasure. A perilous voyage to a mysterious island where the treasure is said to be held.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: sinbad, concubine, lord, assassin, friend, sailor, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice, is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum's co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds and by the investigating officer Detective Vitucci. As Dr. Rice reviews the case notes on his sessions with Bynum, he starts his own investigation. At the same time, he finds himself falling for enigmatic blonde Brooke, despite her increasingly suspicious behavior. The closer Rice comes to the truth, the more he puts his own life in danger...—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, curator, mistress, ex-girlfriend, police detective, mother, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Desirous of an heir, the remote and cruel Lord Rohan (James Mason) marries pretty young Clarissa Marr (Phyllis Calvert). Soon after, Clarissa discovers old school friend Hesther Shaw (Margaret Lockwood), now impoverished in an acting troupe, and brings her home, unaware that Hesther has long nursed resentment of her good fortune. While the ambitious Hesther sets her sights on Rohan, she also secretly encourages Clarissa into a relationship with affable gypsy Peter Rokeby (Stewart Granger).
Plot Keywords: aristocrat, beautiful woman, actress, gypsy, slave, servant, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The world's richest man (Peter Sellers) and the world's poorest orphan (Ringo Starr) set out to prove every man has his price.
Plot Keywords: billionaire, adopted son, coach, ship captain, auctioneer, dark, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An art-house auctioneer finds himself getting in deeper and deeper with the mob after learning that his teacher girlfriend is the daughter of a major mobster. Things get worse when a godfather decides to launder his no-talent son's gory paintings through the art house and gets the FBI into the picture. Everything then falls apart when the son is accidentally shot.
Plot Keywords: art dealer, englishman, girlfriend, mafia boss, father, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: womanizer, pianist, receptionist, middle-aged woman, weatherman, football player, amusing ...
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