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Clockwatchers (1997)
8K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, satirical, dark comedy, semi serious, cult classic, independent film, clever, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
office, workplace, women, friendship, office politics, existentialism, loneliness, storytelling, workplace situations, heist, fighting the system, secretary, father daughter relationship, dark humor, social commentary, business, female friendship, female bonding, social anxiety, eating disorder, competition, job promotion, investigation, politics, friends ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new jersey
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Most similar movies to Clockwatchers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about workplace, friendship, workplace situations, love and romance, storytelling, nude and satire mostly in Comedy, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Clockwatchers: Year of the Dog (2007), Moola (2007), Fear and Trembling (2003), The Hospital (1971), Four Rooms (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Style:
dark comedy, melancholic, touching, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, pets, eccentricity, depression, rescue, infidelity, human nature, couple relations, dark humor, relationships, african american, single woman ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, obsessive quest, friends, best friend, partner, down on your luck, betrayal, buddies, business, corporate world, financial crisis, office ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it ...
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witty, semi serious, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
employer employee relationship, culture clash, workplace, translator, fish out of water, power relations, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, demotion, friendship, japanese culture, cultural difference ...
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japan, tokyo, asia, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
Style:
dark comedy, clever, black comedy, cult classic, talky ...
Plot:
hospital, midlife crisis, satire, medical, doctor, murder, dark humor, medicine, mental illness, insanity, suicide, sex crime ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic ...
Plot:
dark humor, multiple storylines, curses spells and rituals, workplace situations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, gangster, lifestyle, supernatural ability, workplace, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
america, los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A twentysomething office drone struggles between freedom and responsibility in this independent comedy-drama. Sanjay is a man in his mid-'20s who has come to the conclusion his life is stuck in neutral. Sanjay hates his job and doesn't ...
Style:
witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film, clever ...
Plot:
introspection, rise to the top, boss and employee, nothing goes right, fighting the system, workplace, twentysomething life, sexual content, workplace situations, dull life, unfulfillment, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, boss and employee, couples, workplace romance, career woman, ambition, workplace, office work, business, gambling, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style:
independent film, satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, society, self discovery, filmmaking, love and romance, couple relations, starting over, rise and fall ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Alex is a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court-ordered therapy. There she meets Stella, the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon, and Nikki, a dental technician with the face ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
murder, murderous pair, dark humor, friendship, unlikely criminals, battle of the sexes, vengeance, men hatred, rivalry, partner, best friend, romancing a criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
insubordination, office, mysterious character, boss and employee, workplace, dark humor, fish out of water, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, employer employee relationship, skinny dipping, fired from the job ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, talky, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexy woman, waitress, workplace, female nudity, friendship, love and romance, introspection, aging, midlife crisis, workplace romance, restaurant, lifestyle ...
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, lifestyle, actor's life, rising to stardom, workplace, filmmaking, workplace situations, workplace romance, best friend ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
585
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Beauty shop owner finds romance as she struggles to save her business.
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, hood ...
Plot:
save the day, ambition, love and romance, workplace romance, society, workplace, rivalry, workplace situations, fighting the system, boss and employee, uninhibited rivalry, black ...
Time:
year 2005
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million ...
Style:
black comedy, cynical, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot:
medical, hospital, medicine, dark humor, satire, law, business, half sister, nun, family relations, power relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 70s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Style:
satirical, melancholic, humorous, clever, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fashion, sexual dysfunction, satire, loneliness, showbiz, actor's life, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, workplace, lifestyle, unsuccessful, waiter ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style:
independent film, hilarious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, dysfunctional family, adultery, marriage, infidelity, road trip, family relations, thanksgiving, love, storytelling, gay, holiday ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot:
college, life & death, female friendship, graduation, friendship, bittersweet, women, loser, female bonding, angry, meaning of life, railway ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997, 80s
Place:
london, europe, england, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is about two companies who are battling it out for customers, Mary Kay, and one of her workers Lexi Wilcox are fighting it out with Jinger Heath. Who will win? You will have to see.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
makeup artist, workplace, lifestyle, rivalry, rise to the top, elderly, workplace intrigue, office, business, fashion, satire, cosmetics ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Girl 6 is a 1996 American film by director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, talky, sexual, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
phone sex, friendship, satire, neighbor, unlikely friendships, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, boss and employee, workplace situations, black, women, nudity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa
Similarity:
20%
942
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forbidden love, curse, hitman, office, wall street, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, workplace intrigue, workplace, couple relations, boss and employee ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, controversial, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
secretary, manipulation, battle of the sexes, revenge, love, misogynist, relationships, brutality, dark humor, betrayal, businessman, deaf woman ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
50%
21K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style:
touching, tricky, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, midlife crisis, relationships, small town, imaginary friend, life philosophy, character study, loneliness, depression, creativity ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
long island, atlantic ocean, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style:
humorous, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, lifeguard, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, summer, party, beach, cousin ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
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132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office ...
Style:
humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, dark comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, everyday life, office, coworker, boss and employee, job, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, boss, storytelling, humour, sketch ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, seattle
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, rise to the top, workplace, dishonesty, business, money ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, witty, humorous, funny, existential ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
relationships, voodoo, couples, loneliness, interracial romance, existentialism, looking for love, prophecy, singleness, death, lgbt, women ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, japan, africa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Style:
realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, cons and scams, teenage life, writer's life, friends, dark humor, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, kinky sex, sex on first date, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, liverpool
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, workplace, friends, workplace romance, hip hop, family business, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, melancholic, entertaining ...
Plot:
twists and turns, bad luck, dark humor, comedy of errors, greed, bank robbery, heist, manipulation, crime gone awry, workplace, partner, friendship ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Follows a gang of small time crooks in an English town. Malc is in danger of losing his girlfriend Kate if he doesn't spend more time at home and the gang leader Jumbo looks like he is about to lose control.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
working class, friends, couples, buddies, criminal heroes, dishonesty, couple relations, gang, cons and scams, heist, stealing, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
19%
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