Highest-Rated Movies about 'Auctioneer', Sort by Popularity
The Best Offer (2013), Out of the Fog (1941), The Magic Christian (1970), Negatives (1968) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Auctioneer movies.
#1. The Best Offer (2013)
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!#2. Out of the Fog (1941)
Storyline: In Brooklyn, fishing is the hobby of the workers Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson and they use to fish every night in their old boat. Jonah's daughter is the twenty-one year-old telephone operator Stella Goodwin, who is an ambitious young woman that dreams on leaving her neighborhood. She is the sweetheart of the worker George Watkins, a simple man that dreams on marrying her. When the smalltime gangster Harold Goff arrives in Brooklyn, he extorts money from Jonah and Olaf to "protect" their boat from fire and dates Stella. Jonah tries to convince his daughter that Goff is a racketeer that takes money out of poor ordinary people but she does not care to her father since she sees Goff as her chance to have a comfortable life and visit new places. When she discloses to Goff that her father has savings, Goff demands the money to Jonah. Now the old man is convinced that the only chance to get rid off Goff is to fight back.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: tailor, cook, daughter, gangster, auctioneer, dark, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. The Magic Christian (1970)
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!#4. Negatives (1968)
Storyline: Theo, a used-furniture dealer, and his lover, Vivien, like to enhance their love-making through dressing-up and role-playing. He pretends he's notorious murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen; she pretends she's either Crippen's wife, Belle Elmore, or Crippen's mistress, Ethel Le Neve. When they're not having sex, Theo and Vivien engage in a lot of bickering, but continue to live together above Theo's London shop. Entering their lives one day is Reingard, a female German photographer who's been observing the couple, whom she finds intriguing. Reingard moves into one of the rooms above the shop; under her influence, Theo begins to shed his Crippen persona in favor of that of another notorious figure, German flying ace Baron von Richthofen, a development which threatens to impact Theo's relationship with Vivien.—Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>
Plot Keywords: shopkeeper, mistress, photographer, father, auctioneer, businessman, outlandish ...
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