Maelstrom (2000), The White Balloon (1995), Smoke (1995), American Buffalo (1996), Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran (2003), A Stitch in Time (1963), Dakota Road (1991), Deja Vu (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shop Owner movies.
Storyline: Bibiane (Marie-Josée Croze), a wealthy part-time model, questions her seemingly perfect life after she has a traumatic abortion. She succumbs to substance abuse and, while driving drunk one night, strikes a pedestrian and drives off. The next morning, she learns of a man who died after a hit-and-run. Wracked with guilt, she attends the man's funeral. There, she meets his son, Evian (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), and the pair begin a romance. But Bibiane is afraid to tell Evian her dark secret.
Plot Keywords: shop owner, rich girl, fisherman, mother, son, model, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Razieh wants a fat goldfish for the Iranian New Years celebration instead of the skinny ones in her family's pond at home, because the fat fish looks like it's dancing when it swims. After many attempts she and her brother convince their mother to give them her last bit of money. Between their home and the fish store, Razieh loses the money.. She finds it, but it is temptingly just out of her reach.—Rudi Sahebi <rsahebi@voyager.com>
Plot Keywords: young girl, brother, mother, shop owner, engaging, moving, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This film tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie's New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin, a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale....
Plot Keywords: writer, shop owner, teen boy, father, mechanic, ex-girlfriend, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three losers (Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson) wait for a partner and plot to rob someone who bought a valuable coin from one's junk shop.
Plot Keywords: shop owner, teen boy, friend, employee, loser, gritty, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim is an old Muslim Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo, who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Qur'an to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: young boy, muslim, jew, prostitute, movie star, shop owner, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Norman decides to help.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: nurse, shop owner, engaging, amusing, positive, hospital, pranks ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the local U.S. Air Base to escape the guilt and hypocrisy of everyday life. But her dreams of glamour and excitement are shattered when she is seduced by a pilot, setting in motion a chain of events...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: pilot, farmer, daughter, sister, mother, shop owner, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dana, a young American woman traveling on business in Jerusalem, meets a mysterious older French woman at a café who shares a fascinating story of lost love revolving around the expensive antique ruby pin she's wearing. The woman exits the café abruptly, leaving the pin behind and Dana, who is on her way to meet her fiancé in London, finds herself forced to reschedule her trip - and her life - as an unexpected but expected stranger crosses her path. Or has he already?—Rainbow
Plot Keywords: shop owner, painter, fiancé, wife, friend, sister, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in Jacksonville, a welter of subplots involve villains, fair ladies, romantic triangles, gambling fever, murder, a cabin-raising, and vigilantism...culminating with an Indian uprising that threatens all the settlers. No canyon in sight.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: shop owner, fiancée, banker, gambler, best friend, love interest, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: factory worker, factory director, shop owner, best friend, creative, creepy, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold. Harbour falls in love with Alice and soon all four of them are closely intertwined in each other's lives - and perhaps even deaths.—Laplisse4
Plot Keywords: shop owner, brother, cleaning lady, daughter, doctor, older brother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day their father loses the café, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, mother-in-law, son, jilted lover, shop owner, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A very romantic comedy on the edge of the abyss: in the middle of the deepest life crisis, the Holocaust researcher Toto is assigned an assistant for the congress preparation - Zazie, of Jewish origin and with pronounced Teuto-phobia. The star guest of the congress, a famous actress, suddenly withdraws the promise and between Totos and Zazie's biographies bizarre connections emerge.—denise-klink
Plot Keywords: bookseller, shop owner, abductee, abductor, pregnant woman, intricate, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
Plot Keywords: jew, nazi, shop owner, little girl, friend, prisoner, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Convinced of the youthful thug's innocence, Mason get him acquitted. Later, he learns from the murder-victim's father that Walchek is a low-level member of a protection-racket gang and was undoubtedly guilty. Mason is anxious to get the gang-leader, but when he discovers it is the eminently respected head of the city's Crime Commission, he feels that a conviction in a court-of-law would be impossible. In a rage, he kills the man, but all evidence, including the murder weapon points to Walchek. When the latter is again brought to trial, Mason, although he senses a higher justice is at work, feels he must defend him with the best of his ability.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: defense attorney, wife, district attorney, defendant, murderer, shop owner, engaging ...
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