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The Shop Around the Corner
PG

Coming soon • December 2025

Why watch?

“It may seem sacrilegious to call any James Stewart film but It’s A Wonderful Life my favourite Christmas film, but after almost watching that classic to death, I began to search out other festive films and this instantly became a favourite for me. The Shop Around the Corner is based on the Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László and I think the storyline is genius. It’s one of the best romances ever written – the kind that Christmas magic makes possible. The play also went on to inspire the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail which is also great, but Tom Hanks is no James Stewart.”

Martha Boyd,
Digital Marketing Coordinator

Ernst Lubitsch’s beloved classic The Shop Around the Corner is a sparkling romantic drama set in a Budapest gift shop at Christmas with the wonderful James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.

Festive • Romantic • Funny

Part of Memory Matinees

This is a Memory Matinees screening, designed to help those living with dementia enjoy the magic of cinema.

Christmas is coming and the employees of Matuschek's department store are bracing for the holiday rush. Two of which are shopkeepers Alfred and Klara (Stewart & Sullavan) who are constantly at odds with each other, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. In fact, the only thing they do have in common is that they're both falling in love with an unseen pen pal found via the newspaper, neither of them guessing that they're actually falling in love with one another.

With its warmth, wit, and emotional depth, The Shop around the Corner is not only the blueprint for the enemies-to-lovers pipeline and generations of workplace romantic-comedies it's also poignant exploration of longing, misunderstanding and human connection in the big city.

An absolute classic which went on to inspire one of our other favourite romances, You've Got Mail.