| Spring Fever (2009) | 6.5 | |
| Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) | 7.1 | |
| Triptych (2013) | 6.7 | |
| Bright Star (2009) | 6.9 | |
| Yentl (1983) | 6.6 |
Bookseller movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant bookseller movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, melancholic, feel good, touching, witty and romantic films and TV shows about / with bookseller, bookstore, book seller, book, love, friendship, couples, love and romance, dialogue and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bookseller: Home (2013), Happiness is Easy (2020), Triptych (2013), Fukuoka (2019), Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The NeverEnding Story (1984), The Worst Person in the World (2021), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
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List of bookseller movies
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Iceland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four outsiders of three generations band together in a sweet and funny paean to non-conformism. After her husband's death, elderly Frida comes to know her introverted, friendless adult granddaughter, Lou, from whom she had long been kept apart ...
Style:
comedy drama
Plot:
outsider, acceptance, family drama, friendship, grandmother, self discovery, heartwarming, getting home, identity, generation, loneliness, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, iceland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
A middle school teacher quits her job to come to Beijing as she is about to marry her fiancee. In order to make some money, she becomes a tutor for the bookseller's daughter.
Ma Lie Wen sells books for a living. Out of a strong sense of ...
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, tutor, couple relations, male female relationship, fall in love, in love, love story, child custody, new love, life is a bitch, love affair, love and romance ...
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212
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Adapted and inspired from the play Lipsynch, Triptyque is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle (Lise Castonguay) a schizophrenic bookseller, Marie (Frédérike Bédard), singer and actress, and Thomas (Hans Piesbergen), a ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
mental illness, destiny, hopes, society, surgical operation, schizophrenic, urban, neurologist, jazz singer, poetry, sister sister relationship, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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331
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by the conflicts of the past, his travel companion floats through the plot as if moving through a dream.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
reconciliation, love triangle, memory, nostalgia, lifestyle, love affair, confronting the past, love story, middle aged, middle aged man, relationships, relationship problems ...
Place:
japan, seoul, south korea
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
love and romance, princess, beast, castle, beauty and the beast, power of love, imaginary, transformation, opposites attract, father daughter relationship, prince, disney princess ...
Time:
18th century, 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Meek, owlish Felix (George Segal) and strident, catty Doris (Barbra Streisand) live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, hilarious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, writers, insomnia, aspiring writer, premarital sex, screwball, opposites attract, eviction, voyeur, peeping tom, bookstore ...
Time:
1930s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, book, child protagonist, evil force, child hero, boy, medieval ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Style:
thought provoking, funny, art house, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
breakup, male female relationship, cancer, infidelity, female protagonist, millennial, voice over narration, drug trip, yoga, love, existential crisis, pregnancy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oslo norway, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, funny, romantic comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night ...
Plot:
virginity, nerd, shyness, dating, male virgin, 40 year old, loss of virginity, sex scene, sexual humor, friendship, adult virgin, relationships ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, north america
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style:
sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
forgery, cat, female protagonist, female writer, writers, lesbian, living alone, lgbt, accomplice, drinking, deception, letter ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style:
period piece, freeze frame, thought provoking, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
judaism, dance, wedding, tradition, jewish culture, broadway, milkman, anti semitism, dancing, forbidden love, tradition versus modernity, butcher ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
ukraine, israel, russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces ...
Style:
spoof, parody, funny, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
spy, cow, satire, espionage, cold war, heroic mission, world war two, resistance movement, selflessness, daring rescue, occupation, disorder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, gift, bookseller, newborn, bare chested male, mother daughter relationship, loss of mother, bad singing, death of son, sex scene, church ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, atheism, religions or cults, sect, hidden treasure, religious sect, mind control, brainwashing, innocence lost, society ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, parents and children, partner, friendship between men, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Alper is in his mid 30s and a good chef at his own restaurant. He loves luxury and spends his life with one-night stands and paid love. One day, his life changes utterly as he walks into a second-hand shop where he first encounters Ada who is in her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, couples, bittersweet, chef, cooking and food, love and romance, turk, estrangement, casual sex, free spirited, singleness, book ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
gay husband, gay, hopes, closeted homosexual, gay club, male nudity, infidelity, love triangle, tragic romance, couples, escapades, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by ...
Style:
surreal, mythical, independent film, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
stream of consciousness, greek mythology, chess, profanity, cuckold, passionate kiss, philosophy, mythology, peplum, literary, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1967, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, ancient greece, greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex-shop but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive man.
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
bookstore, vice squad, sex shop, sex orgy, sex life, male pubic hair, nudity, bare chested male, bookseller, sexual revolution, fetishism, voyeurism ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also prehistoric animals like some dinosaurs,
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic
Plot:
dinosaur, underground, kaiju, steampunk, reptiles, explorer, lost world, prehistoric creature, exploitation, prehistoric animal, geology, lava ...
Time:
prehistoric times
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote a book about spirituality that became wildly popular. These days, he's a curmudgeonly recluse who only enjoys the company of his chiropractor, Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). As Elizabeth's ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, writers, dishonesty, single parent, human nature, love and romance, self discovery, couple relations, writer's life, family relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Is relevant?
348K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style:
touching, visually appealing, period piece, visually stunning, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, orphan, friendship, filmmaking, boy, childhood, street kid, longing, robot, harry potter, magical, destiny ...
Time:
year 2011, post world war one, 20th century, year 1931, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, france, madagascar, iran, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style:
costume drama, heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, unfaithful wife, lust, extramarital affair, sex, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, cheating wife, hot and sexy, marital infidelity, fatal attraction ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
Is relevant?
380K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
couples, fame, love and romance, power of love, social differences, opposites attract, paparazzi, dating, male female relationship, ordinary person, love story, true love ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Style:
cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, advertising, book, poverty, marketing, satire, bookstore, drinking, working class, literature, money, poetry ...
Time:
1930s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, surreal, action adventure, fantasy adventure ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
childhood, imaginary kingdom, sword and sorcery, magic, good versus evil, sorcery, halloween, giant, empress, youth, destiny, swamp ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, queer horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, teenager, supernatural, lesbian, serial killer, witch, lesbian teen, lgbt, alter ego, killer, terror, masked killer ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
mountain, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, mute or deaf, writer's life, school, parents and children, siblings relations, hospital, mountaineer, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
122K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2019 the world is on the brink of an apocalypse as humanity prepares for a final judgment. But follies ensue — Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a demon aren’t enthusiastic about the end of the world, and can’t seem to find ...
Style:
witty, atmospheric, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
angel, armageddon, devil, demon, friendship between men, prophecy, heaven and hell, foe turned friend, supernatural, heaven, fallen angel, antichrist ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
england, london, usa, africa
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