Small business movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant small business movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, captivating, touching, feel good and psychological films and TV shows about / with small business, friendship, family relations, food, workplace, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, business, cooking and love plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Japan, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as small business: Sweet Bean (2015), Midnight Diner 2 (2016), Money Is Not Everything (2001), The Bear (2022), Kamome Diner (2006), End of Days, Inc. (2015), Hive (2021), Adrift in Tokyo (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), The Antique (2018).

List of small business movies

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 7.4
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Sweet Bean (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
Style: culinary, sincere, melancholic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: cooking, restaurant, small business, street vendor, chef, old woman, meaning of life, disability, old age, elderly woman, food, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2015
Place: japan, indiana
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
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Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Pork, miso soup combo, beer, sake and shochu is all that he has on his menu. Nevertheless, he makes whatever his customers request ...
Style: melancholic, anthology, sincere, psychological
Plot: restaurant, food, small business, unrequited love, homelessness, haunted by the past, business manager, japanese police, multiple storylines, storytelling, cookery, humanity ...
Place: tokyo
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Money Is Not Everything (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Bohaterem filmu jest 50-letni biznesmen Tomasz Adamczyk, który chce zrezygnować z prowadzenia interesów w branży winiarskiej i poświęcić się swojej pasji życiowej filozofii. Pomysł ten nie przypada do gustu jego wspólnikowi. Do tego ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating
Plot: small business, hostage, social differences, ransom, poverty, businessman, hopelessness, meaning of life, countryside, provincial life, alcoholic, village ...
Time: year 2001
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Vincent, Fran?ois, Paul and the Others (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his ...
Style: art house, semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot: friendship, small business owner, group of friends, small business, financial problem, male bonding, writers, couples, male female relationship, marital crisis, sexuality, weekend ...
Time: year 1974, 70s
Place: europe, france
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 8.6
 202K
The Bear (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a young chef from the fine dining world, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death. As Carmy fights to transform the restaurant and himself, his rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew ...
Style: funny, psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: chef, restaurant, family business, food, business, workplace, small business, cooking, getting home, job, cooking and food, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: chicago
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 7.2
 3K
Kamome Diner (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, diner, starting over, friendship, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, lifestyle, workplace situations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, japan, europe, helsinki finland
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End of Days, Inc. (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of laid-off workers bribed into working one last night discover that processing the last of their "inventory" will lead to cataclysmic consequences.
Style: humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychotronic, dark comedy ...
Plot: undead, deal with the devil, employer employee relationship, supernatural, small business, employee, supernatural power, office, businessman, nightshift, apocalypse, epidemic ...
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 7.1
 4K
Hive (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, political, social
Plot: small business, mother daughter relationship, entrepreneur, female protagonist, social issues, life is a bitch, widow, social problems, family problems, patriarchy, society, woman ...
Place: kosovo, serbia, balkan
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, light ...
Plot: city life, loan, confession, on the road, walking, regret, gangster, yakuza, friendship, teenager, cafe, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia
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 6.2
 18K
Maggie's Plan (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and ...
Style: romantic, melancholic, satirical, stylized, talky ...
Plot: writers, marriage, relationships, divorce, friendship, hotel, loneliness, blended family, marxism, ex husband ex wife relationship, character study, eccentricity ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, quebec
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 5.4
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The Antique (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Shioriko Shinokawa (Haru Kuroki) runs an old book store in Kamakura. She is exceptionally passionate and knowledgeable about books, but shy when not talking about books. She works with a clerk, Daisuke Goura (Shuhei Nomura). He has an unusual ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: bookstore, book, small business, workplace, problem, undercover, secret, japanese woman, slim woman, eyeglasses, brunette, woman with glasses
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Life for Sale (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Life for Sale is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, sincere, tragic
Plot: father son relationship, money problems, family relations, death of brother, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, business, bankruptcy, businessman, dreaming, downfall, small business ...
Time: year 2011
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A Christmas in Vermont (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, romantic, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, male female relationship, happy ending, businessman, corporation, small town, love interest, small business, opposites attract, creativity, love story ...
Time: 2010s
Place: vermont, new england, new york
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The End of Summer (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, family business, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, love and romance, forbidden love, human nature, extramarital affair, love, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1961
Place: japan, asia
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts Botswana's first female-owned detective agency.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, offbeat ...
Plot: investigation, friendship, riddles and clues, who done it, undercover, small business, female boss, brother sister relationship, crime solving, private detective, nature, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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Bosom Buddies (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. It ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC and in reruns in the summer of 1984 on NBC. The show features the ...
Style: sitcom, buddy comedy, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, gender bending, hotel, friendship, physical appearance, workplace romance, showbiz, lifestyle, workplace, battle of the sexes, performer's life, hidden identity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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2 Broke Girls (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: ambitious, financial problem, money raising, everyday life, lifestyle change, workplace situations, female friendship, friendship, diner, waitress, staff, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Sweet Autumn (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Maggie, a successful entrepreneur, returns home for a will reading and discovers she’s inherited half of her aunt’s famed maple candy business. What she doesn’t understand is why Aunt Dee’s maple supplier, Dex, inherited the other half. Her ...
Style: light, romantic, realistic, tear jerker, romantic comedy
Plot: autumn, contest, aunt niece relationship, relationship vs career, couple relations, relationships, love affair, family business, male female relationship, co worker co worker relationship, small business, sibling relationship ...
Time: 2020s, year 1990
Place: minneapolis minnesota
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 7.8
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Pegasus Market (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: The manager of Pegasus Market, Moon Seok-goo, is worried about the store’s decreasing sales. One day Jeong Bok-dong, a former executive of the conglomerate Daema Group, gets demoted to Pegasus Market. Seok-goo is excited because he believes that ...
Style: entertaining, light, humorous, funny
Plot: rise to the top, employee employee relationship, nothing goes right, social problems, absurdism, farce, small business, life, business, revenge, employer employee relationship, destiny ...
Place: south korea
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Back in Very Small Business (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Don Angel, a trumped-up small businessman seeks validation through his small business kingdom, but finds unexpected solace from his odd squad of employees.
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, captivating, funny
Plot: businessman, business partner, small business, business and finance, entrepreneur, company, business venture, entrepreneurship, business, small business owner
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Mr. Long (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
Style: captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense, tense
Plot: hitman, haunted by the past, lifestyle change, plan gone wrong, assignment, starting over, wound, small town, escape, small business, thoughtful, organized crime ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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A Taste of Hunger (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they ...
Style: sexy, emotional, touching, romantic, art house ...
Plot: food, adultery, restaurant, male female relationship, cheating wife, passion, restaurant owner, cooking and food, husband wife relationship, desire, marital crisis, couples ...
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A Taste of Christmas (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When Natalie (Anni Krueger) learns her cousin Francesca (Nia Vardalos) must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant, Natalie’s heart goes out to all of the guests who were planning on attending. Since no one should be alone ...
Style: atmospheric, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet
Plot: christmas, christmas season, christmas romance, love, love and romance, small business, male female friendship, happy ending, employer employee relationship, cooking, christmas eve, hopes ...
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Winter's Dream (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Former professional skier Kat works as a ski aid and ski shop worker at Bliss Mountain, where she prepares for a Winterfest to drum up business for the quaint town. Widowed father Ty and his daughter Anna come from New York to train with ski ...
Style: romantic, touching, light, feel good, sweet
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, father daughter relationship, snow, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, lifestyle, championship, small business, fall in love, workplace, small town ...
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 5.4
 8K
Call Me Kat (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Kat is a woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that she can still live a happy and fulfilling life despite still being single at 39. Which is why she recently spent her entire savings to open a cat café in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good
Plot: cat, workplace, female protagonist, ambitious, small business, workplace situations, lifestyle, workplace problem, odd couple, adult humor, dating, relationships ...
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 7.6
 1K
Chicks (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: In the south of Russia, where roadside cafes alternate with ripe fruit ruins, three friends of Sveta, Marina and Lyudka work in a brothel. Their former colleague - enterprising Jeanne - went to conquer Moscow, but returned to the girls with a ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sad, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: business venture, women, provincial life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, new life, parents and children, life is a bitch, misery, woman in danger, country girl, dream ...
Place: russia
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King of the Hill (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, ...
Style: adult animation, adult cartoon, witty, animated comedy, anime ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: ordinary person, small town, youth, couples, teenage life, family life, substitute teacher, suburban life, redneck, couple relations, friendship, social relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A terminally ill single mother is determined to reconcile her splintered family.
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: japanese woman, bullying, father daughter relationship, east asian woman, terminal illness, siblings, diagnosis, cancer, husband wife relationship, schoolgirl, runaway, dead mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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