Once (2007), Kings of the Road (1976), The Keys to the House (2004), Pleasantville (1998), Benny & Joon (1993), George Washington Slept Here (1942), Oblivion (2013), 711 Ocean Drive (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Repairman movies.
Storyline: An unnamed guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer/songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An unnamed girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her Mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets girl and they get to know each other as the girl helps the guy put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the guy and the girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs.
Plot Keywords: singer, songwriter, repairman, florist, love interest, immigrant, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Near the Eastern borders with West Germany, Bruno, a solitary, permanent citizen of the road and film projection equipment repairman, witnesses the sad sight of a VW beetle car storming straight into the River Elbe. After a while, however, the depressed driver, Robert, instinctively accepts an offer for a lift in Bruno's repair van, and just like that, an impromptu relationship begins. Now, against the backdrop of the German countryside, the new companions find themselves sharing the same need for freedom, visiting dilapidated movie theatres for maintenance, and getting to know each other one small town after another. But, no one knows, or cares, how long is the road that stretches out ahead of them. After all, the only thing that matters is one's commitment to a precious ideal. Have the kings of the road found life's true meaning?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: pediatrician, repairman, touching, calm, creative, germany, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his wife dies during childbirth, repairman Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) can't accept the responsibility of his newborn son and gives him up. Fifteen years later, he meets his son, Paolo (Andrea Rossi), for the first time on a train to Berlin, and discovers that he's disabled. The meeting is awkward, and Gianni is stunned by the treatment Paolo receives from his German doctors. Eventually, with the help of another parent (Charlotte Rampling), Gianni learns to cope with delayed fatherhood.
Plot Keywords: repairman, son, therapist, mother, daughter, uneasy, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David Wagner is a kid whose mind is stuck in the 1950s. He's addicted to a classic 50's sitcom television show called "Pleasantville". Pleasantville is a simple place, a place where all of its citizens are swell and simple-minded folks, a place where the word "violence", and life outside of Pleasantville, is unbeknownst to its inhabitants; things are perfect down in Pleasantville. One evening, the life of David and his obnoxious sister Jennifer take a bizarre turn when an eccentric repairman hand them a supposed magical remote. After a quarrel between the siblings, they inexplicably zap themselves into the world of "Pleasantville". Now, David and Jennifer must adjust to a 50s lifestyle of repressed desires and considerably different societal values while trying to find their way home.
Plot Keywords: teenager, sister, father, mother, repairman, bully, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Spokane, Washington, Juniper Pearl - Joon to those that know her - is an artist. She is also a mentally challenged young woman who requires around the clock care, as she could cause harm to herself or others. Her brother Benny Pearl, who owns and operates a garage and who is her only living relative since their parents died twelve years ago in a car accident, has made the decision that she would live at home with him, in the process sacrificing being able to have a personal life of his own. He has hired full-time housekeepers to provide that care when he isn't around. However, he has exhausted the list of housekeepers, who keep quitting because Joon is too much to handle. As such, Benny makes the decision that perhaps it would be best for all concerned if Joon were to live in a group home, something he is hesitating telling her for fear of her reaction. Into their lives comes Sam, the eccentric cousin of Benny's friend Mike, Sam who they obtained from Mike in a losing hand of poker...
Plot Keywords: repairman, mentally challenged, loner, waitress, brother, sister, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor comes from the couple's many problems they encounter while trying to fix up the place.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, home owner, repairman, neighbor, uncle, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Plot Keywords: repairman, survivor, government official, old man, thrilling, incredible, earth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: repairman, hit man, police detective, gangster, assistant, gangster's wife, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: assassin, husband, wife, sheriff, repairman, henchmen, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reworking of Preston Sturges' original story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Clayton Poole's a small town TV repairman in a small town, who's still in love with his former hometown sweetheart, Carla Naples - who's now a famous movie star. When Carla becomes pregnant after a hasty marriage, the studio tells her a baby will ruin her career. She turns to the only peraon she can trust; Clayton,who sagrees to care for the baby—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: movie star, sister, agent, father, repairman, baby, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Summer, 1969: men on the moon, and Woodstock happening near the cabin where the Kantrowitz family stays every summer. The camp's a Jewish fish-bowl. Marty's there weekends; he repairs TVs in Brooklyn. He's square and decent. His wife Pearl and his mother camp with Alison (she's 14) and their younger son. Pearl got pregnant at 17 and feels she missed her youth. While Alison experiences her first date, first kiss, first period, and stealing off to Woodstock with the lifeguard, Pearl has her own sexual awakening with "the blouse man," a peddler who sells at the camp. They too go to Woodstock. Marty confronts Pearl about the affair; she and he have to decide what to do next.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: housewife, traveling salesman, teen girl, repairman, mother-in-law, high-school sweetheart, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Government bureaucrat Guner (Tarik Akan) moves to a small Turkish village with the mission of modernizing their library, but the entire nation is in turmoil, and the people would much rather watch television than read books. While caring for his daughter Tuuba (Tuba Ünsal), a winsome girl in a wheelchair, Guner tries to grab the attention of the populace. Fortunately, eccentric repairman Crazy Emin (Yilmaz Erdogan) takes a liking to the girl and helps to unite the village.
Plot Keywords: bureaucrat, librarian, disabled girl, daughter, mayor, repairman, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Behind closed doors, widely respected firefighter Lyle Wilder (Charles Sheen) is an abusive husband and father. When his family leaves him, Lyle goes off the rails and accuses his neighbors of driving his wife and son away. He begins tormenting them and, as his murderous rampage escalates, he violently kills a repairman. But, because of Lyle's do-gooder reputation, the police refuse to believe his neighbors' accusations, which forces them to take matters into their own hands.
Plot Keywords: firefighter, murderer, father, mother, repairman, neighbor, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: wagon master, passenger, american indian, pioneer, repairman, negotiator, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Moronic American student Rusty arranges a student exchange program for his closest friends and him to study in Romania for six months and meet his Internet girlfriend Draguta. He travels with potheads Pete and Wang, Pete's girlfriend Lia and her twin sister Danni, the naive and romantic Newmar and his dippy girlfriend Lynne, the nerd Brady and his sexually confused roommate Mike, and crook Cliff. His friends actually intend to party. While traveling by train to Razvan they learn that five hundred years ago the vampire Radu lost his beloved Stephania, whose spirit was trapped in a music box. Ever since, Radu has kept Stephania's body while seeking the music box to bring her back. One of Radu's minions has recently retrieved the music box but, mortally wounded by the vampire slayer Teodora Van Sloan, drops the object in a gypsy's basket. Newmar unwittingly buys the music box and gives it to Lynne, who opens it and is possessed by Stephania. When all arrive at the university, they are welcomed by Dean Floca, who is a dwarf. Rusty meets Draguta and finds that she has a horrible hunchback. Not only is Dean Floca her father, he's a psychopath who keeps a torture chamber in the dungeon of his house for his daughter's jilting boyfriends. With Radu on his way - who is identical to Rusty - the brainless American students find themselves in a very messy and convoluted situation.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: police officer, robot, alien, repairman, friend, doctor, thrilling ...
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