Big Night (1996), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Founder (2016), Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Queen of Hearts (1989), You've Got Mail (1998), It Happened to Jane (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Small Business movies.
Storyline: Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution, he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night.
Plot Keywords: chef, restaurant manager, restaurant owner, girlfriend, wife, brother, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barry Egan hates himself and hates his life. The only male among eight siblings, Barry is treated poorly by his overbearing sisters. Despite owning his own business, he has gotten nowhere in life largely because of his insecurities. He leads a solitary life, which allows him to hide his violent outbursts that occur when he's frustrated. His solitude however allows him to think, he stumbling upon a scheme to travel the world on a pittance, travel which he has never done. Concurrently, he meets two people who pull him in two different directions. The first is Lena Leonard, a friend of his sister Elizabeth. Barry is slow to realize that Lena is attracted to him, he making her make all the first moves. Lena is eventually able to get Barry out of his shell, she who sticks around despite his obvious problems. His burgeoning relationship and thus new life with Lena is threatened by the second, "Georgia", who he contacted in an effort to alleviate his loneliness. Georgia and her "band of ...
Plot Keywords: salesman, love interest, sister, thug, owner, operator, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling, his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald - Dick and Mac. ...
Plot Keywords: salesman, brother, small-business owner, wife, confident, gripping, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: join Daffy Duck, the co-hero and main deuteragonist of Looney Toons, who's now on an adventure of the last Looney Toons package compilation movie and Daffy Duck's second movie as the spotlight shines onto Daffy once again as the hero. in this movie, Daffy is hired to become the owner of a company after winning a prize reward. Daffy opens it as a super secret pest-control detective spy exterminator agency with all his Looney Toons pals, they must go on a spooky mysterious fantasy adventure for the supernatural to stop the monsters that haunt, attack and invade their home city neighbourhood of Toon-Town.
Plot Keywords: daffy duck, bugs bunny, billionaire, lighthearted, hilarious, city, paranormal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali's life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser's run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny - who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks - to help ...
Plot Keywords: journalist, entrepreneur, punk, drug dealer, uneasy, engaging, laundromat ...
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: The owner of a large bookstore chain starts putting the owner of a small local bookstore out of business. Meanwhile they have been corresponding over the internet without knowing who either of them are. They can't stand each other in person but over the internet they are very attracted. He finds out who she is but she doesn't know. He starts to like her more but she still hates him. He has to fix it.
Plot Keywords: bookseller, executive, journalist, editor, friend, heartwarming, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides to take on Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world". With the help of her lifelong friend - and lawyer - George Denham, Jane sues Malone for the price of her lobsters & her lost business. What she ends up with is a lot more than either of them bargained for.—April M. Cheek <Aravis2713@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: small-business owner, railroad tycoon, lawyer, reporter, amusing, charming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
Plot Keywords: widow, store owner, friend, girl, wealthy woman, amusing, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Plot Keywords: clerk, schemer, customer, police officer, city official, amusing, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house. The obstacles he must overcome include the mob (who, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, surreptitiously follow him in a garbage truck) and corrupt officials--among them, an Irish fire chief, played by Godfrey Cambridge, black comic actor.—Leslie Lamport <lamport@src.dec.com>
Plot Keywords: farmer, cop, gangster, politician, lawyer, young woman, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: pregnant wife, husband, reporter, real estate agent, farmer, neighbor, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. At first she doesn't accept until the lady that gives the baby to her has to catch her flight. J.C. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. Her boyfriend doesn't like the idea of a baby living with them and he leaves her. J.C. has enough of it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt her. She leaves but hears the baby cry while walking away and has to go back. The baby is too attached to her now and won't let her go. Later, her baby gets into mischief which causes her to get fired. Now, she sets her eyes on an old two story cottage in Vermont to get out of the New York life. When she arrives, the house needs more help than originally thought. She gets bored one snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. Her baby loves it and she decides to sell...
Plot Keywords: businesswoman, baby, boyfriend, love interest, charming, heartwarming, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two best friends (Cameron Dye, Kevin Geer) buy a popular Manhattan bar for $50,000, but business soon begins to go downhill.
Plot Keywords: bartender, bar owner, girlfriend, boss, confident, moving, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The use of dead car crash victims in the Morgan Brothers' "Blood and Bone" fertiliser has been a huge boon to business. But it's been months since their last find and an important new customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan, the junior partner in the business, comes across three young people stranded on a remote country road, he sees a radical solution to their supply problems, and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother, Lindsay. But things don't quite go to plan when Reg starts forming an attachment with one of their captives, Sophie. Reg must now make a decision: go through with the plan and finally win Lindsay's approval, or save the kids and destroy everything the brothers have worked for. They're not psycho killers... they're just small business operators.—Colin & Cameron Cairnes
Plot Keywords: truck driver, sidekick, amusing, brutal, united states, secret, kidnapping ...
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