You've Got Mail (1998)

The comfort-watch of the bunch, and the one that understood the independent bookstore's fight with the chains before most people noticed it. Meg Ryan runs a small children's bookstore in New York; Tom Hanks runs the giant discount chain opening around the corner. Neither knows the other is the anonymous stranger they are falling for online. What keeps it on this list is Kathleen's shop itself: story hours, a staff who know their stock, and a real sense of loss when the chain wins on price. It is a love story, but also a eulogy for a certain kind of bookseller.