| Joker (2019) | 8.3 | |
| The Balloon Vendor (1974) | 6.6 | |
| I Remember (1973) | 7.8 | |
| In July (2000) | 7.6 | |
| Like Stars on Earth (2007) | 8.3 |
Street vendor movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant street vendor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, independent film and suspense films and TV shows about / with street vendor, slice of life, urban, death, friendship, working class, poverty, intimate, social realism and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Turkey, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as street vendor: Sweet Bean (2015), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), The Hurt Locker (2008), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Poetical Refugee (2000), Market Mahalakshmi (2024), The Monk and the Demon (2016), Muhallebi express (2013), Sweet and Sour (2006), Koepek (2015).
Best films
New films
| Dheepan (2015) | 7.2 | |
| Siddharth (2013) | 7.4 | |
| Giraffada (2013) | 6.3 | |
| Sweet Bean (2015) | 7.4 | |
| Market Mahalakshmi (2024) | 4.0 |
List of street vendor movies
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, thought provoking, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
cooking, chef, restaurant, old age, small business, street vendor, food, elderly woman, old woman, meaning of life, disability, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
japan, indiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the ...
Style:
art house, psychological, neo noir, sad, depressing ...
Plot:
street vendor, heart attack, nervous breakdown, drinking, adultery, family relations, obsession, husband and wife, forbidden love, alcohol abuse, female nudity, depression ...
Time:
1950s, year 1972, year 1971, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
munich germany, germany, bavaria, morocco, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style:
tense, realistic, emotional, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
iraq war, terrorism, military, sniper, soldier, war, bomb squad, violence, army, shootout, marines, bomb ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, america, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
sex addict, friendship, hospital, looking for love, family life, lifestyle, social outcast, curses spells and rituals, adoption, society, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A young man pursues a relationship with an independent street vendor. Despite their differences, he tries various ways to convince her to marry him.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, heartfelt, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
relationships, street vendor, independent woman, wooing, working class, male protagonist, pursuit, marriage proposal, female empowerment, persuasion, urban, class differences ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
Style:
spiritual, christian film, captivating, smart, surreal ...
Plot:
monk, belief in god, human spirit, evil force, resistance, temptation, faith, spirituality, religion, good versus evil, seduction, street vendor ...
Time:
20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Three Israeli friends start selling Malabi dessert at their stall. They unknowingly use an ingredient that gets customers high, attracting people worldwide.
Style:
humorous, sexy, not serious, realistic, multicultural ...
Plot:
silly humor, twentysomething life, fall in love, love triangle, buddies, friends, love and romance, food, israeli, friendship, street vendor, media sensation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, tel aviv israel, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
TV show
Story:
A middle-aged woman is forced to start selling pickles in the street after his husband passes away. A rich carpet salesman meets and falls in love with her but their families are against their union
Plot:
widow, class conflict, family drama, female protagonist, grief, poverty, street vendor, working woman, mourning, small business, second chance, female empowerment ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ordinary day in the megacity of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything that satisfies their ...
Style:
anthology, psychological, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
social criticism, humanity, longing, loneliness, street life, social issues, unrequited love, tragic love, social relations, unfulfilled love, urban setting, multiple storylines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
Booted is a comedy with heart about Will Kelinsky, a charming deadbeat who meets his inevitable fate when his car gets booted in downtown Philadelphia due to a vast sum of unpaid parking tickets. Now he's stranded with a backseat of spoiling ...
Style:
heartfelt, romantic comedy, indie film, feel good
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, urban, redemption, personal growth, second chance, street vendor, slice of life, moral dilemma, entrepreneurship, mobster, social commentary, satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, art house, period piece, tear jerker ...
Plot:
circus, innocence, child protagonist, loss, abandonment, father son relationship, alcoholism, illness, family drama, empathy, bittersweet, poverty ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1974
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy broker, his butler, and a poor abusive seller, following an economic meltdown, all see their social positions change. When the rich becomes poor, the former abusive seller accommodates the rich and the butler. The three thus learn to live ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, feel good, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
adaptation, switching roles, social commentary, social satire, escapades, unlikely friendships, nothing goes right, down on your luck, manipulation, life philosophy, workplace, social differences ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, dramatic, melancholic
Plot:
memory loss, car, coma, couple relations, love, love affair, couples, young girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, rain ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Story:
In a house the popular area, Abdeen, live Haha and his sister, Tuffaha, Haha works as "Nubachi" whose duty is to collect gift money thrown at belly dancers, at wedding parties, from under the dancers, while Tuffaha works as a nurse in a ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
marriage, arab, family conflict, sibling rivalry, brother sister relationship, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, eccentric family, family problems, inheritance, satire ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cairo egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Reza is a naive and honest middle age teacher that has difficulties in communicating with women. He meets a gummies saleswoman
Style:
romantic comedy, indie film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, socially awkward, iranian, empathy, character study, tenderness, wooing, slice of life, loneliness, everyday life, school, intimacy ...
Place:
persia, iran
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
Gourmet is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Kim Rae-won and Nam Sang-mi. It aired on SBS from June 18 to September 9, 2008 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes.
It was adapted from the popular manhwa of the same title by ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, thrilling, culinary, psychological ...
Plot:
food, cooking, restaurant, businessman, chef, family relations, culinary arts, jealousy, cookery, workplace situations, workplace, cooking and food ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbtq, closeted homosexual, sex scene, lgbt, male pubic hair, religion, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place:
guatemala
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, erotica, strangulation, interracial lesbian sex, voyeur, strangled to death, murder, voyeurism, male nudity, bisexual, threesome ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1972
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, sexual, controversial, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, exploitation, rape and revenge, sex scene, vigilante, sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse, anal rape, retribution, female vigilante, one woman army ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Style:
humorous, grindhouse, family comedy, exciting, fast ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, skyscraper, robbery, androids, androids and robots, talking robot, street vendor, hitman, boat, police ...
Time:
80s, near future
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey, Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?
Style:
offbeat, humorous, road movie, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
on the road, hot and sexy, nothing goes right, hitchhiker, looking for love, summer vacation, true love, travel, border crossing, male female relationship, summer, road trip ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, istanbul turkey, turkey, budapest ...
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Style:
dark comedy, slapstick, picaresque, suspense, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
circus, satire, working class, manipulation, greed, desperation, debt, survival, outsider, farce, small town, rescue ...
Time:
70s
Place:
munich germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story:
Rina is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1977. It was written by Inés Rodena and starred Ofelia Medina as a hunchback named Rina and Enrique Álvarez Félix as her love interest.
Since the original, several ...
Style:
gothic, soap opera, psychotronic, telenovela
Plot:
inheritance, revenge, rags to riches, occult, family drama, macabre, disability, betrayal, manipulation, villainess, class conflict, poverty ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
19-year old Ah Loong is in charge of a street stall selling pirated VCDs. Ah Loong is an incurable romantic with a unique hobby – he loves to read and write poetry. Quite content to carry on being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong's life takes ...
Style:
romantic drama, intercultural, melancholic, emotional
Plot:
interracial relations, young lovers, coming of age, poetry, youth, first love, teen romance, intimate, bittersweet, character study, poverty, identity ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yu-Siang is blind – but he has a superb sense of hearing. Born in rural Taiwan, this extremely talented musician moves to the capital Taipei to study the piano. But how will he manage on his own? Even the walk across campus from his halls of ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, motivational, heartfelt ...
Plot:
blind character, blindness, hopes, prodigy, human spirit, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, piano, music, disability, inspiration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, china
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Coşkun and his brother İrfan make a living selling pirated movies. Coşkun's dream is to become a famous comedian and make movies. One day Coşkun meets Ayla, the love of his life, with pirated movies in his hands. Coşkun suddenly finds ...
Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love, love and romance, satire, film industry, love story, love interest, relationships, couple relations, husband wife relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, urban ghetto life, city life, decolonization, poverty, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
swat, squad, swat team, police, basic training, law enforcement, sniper, police brutality, tough law enforcer, criminal, corrupt cop, hostage ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, north america, california
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