Movies and TvShows featuring "lunch-counter" theme.

Days of Being Wild follows a handsome man in 1960s Hong Kong who becomes obsessed with a woman. His obsession leads him into a series of relationships and encounters, including with a prostitute and an older woman. Through a journey of seduction and unrequited love, the man confronts his own existential loneliness and learns the truth about his biological mother.

A group of teenage performers from a small town head to New York City to pursue their dreams of stardom. Along the way, they encounter various challenges and opportunities for love and friendship. Will they be able to achieve their goals and find happiness in the big city?

Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune."

Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.

Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.

Bud and Lou head to Hollywood where they try to break into the movie business. Along the way, they get mixed up in a murder mystery and encounter various hilarious situations.

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

In Heat Lightning, a woman in the American Southwest faces isolation and danger after a botched robbery. She must navigate the desert landscape and confront her past while trying to protect herself and her loved ones.

Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.

Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.

An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.

When the owner of a department store is about to go on vacation, he tells his children that any idiot could run the store. So they put Joe Cook in charge.

Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.

Part of RKO's "This is America" series, this is an Oscar nominated short documentary from 1944 that follows the plight of European immigrants arriving in the USA looking for hope and safety.

A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.