Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.

The Desert Bride

2017

Spanish

6.5

♡ 5

89%

53%

buenos aires, argentina

Drama

traveling salesman

woman director

Cecilia Atán Director

Valentino Guevara as Damián

Daniel Muñoz as Muela

Iván Moschner as Rubén

Paulina García as Teresa Godoy

Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.

King of the Hill

1993

English

7.3

♡ 19

91%

84%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Steven Soderbergh Director

Amber Benson as Ella McShane

Adrien Brody as Lester

Elizabeth McGovern as Lydia

Karen Allen as Miss Mathey

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

The Emperor Waltz

1948

English

6.0

♡ 6

73%

Billy Wilder Director

Norbert Schiller as Assistant to Dr. Zwieback

Roland Culver as Baron Holenia

William Haade as Guard Officer

Joan Fontaine as Johanna Augusta Franziska

At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.

Graverobbers

1988

English

4.7

♡ 6

Straw Weisman Director

Kathleen Margo as Cicely Matthews

Elizabeth Schram as Her Feet

James Brummel as Jimmy, the Dishwasher

Mark McCally as Salesman

Cute waitress/hooker is romanced and wed to handsome stranger/funeral director. He, as well as most of the town prefer their women dead. She is the obvious candidate for that position, as his two previous wives were in terrible shape even for dead persons. She must be fleet of foot indeed to avoid their fate.

Cookies

1975

French

6.5

♡ 3

Joël Séria Director

Bernard Fresson as Émile

Nathalie Drivet as Ida

Maurice Travail as L'homme voiture récente

Dominique Lavanant as Marie Pape

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.

Pennies from Heaven

1981

English

6.5

♡ 5

83%

Herbert Ross Director

Twink Caplan as Bank Customer

John Karlen as The Detective

Christopher Walken as Tom

M.C. Gainey as Young Policeman

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

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