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Head Office (1985)
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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 daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Style:
realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, biting, satirical, suspense, eighties
Plot:
job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, rise to the top, workplace romance, workplace, dishonesty, cons and scams, workplace situations, power relations, business, money, office work, satire, love and romance, fall in love, leadership, chaos and mayhem, media satire, suicide, corruption, senator, protest, yuppie, bribe ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
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Most similar movies to Head Office
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, boss and employee, dishonesty, power relations and satire mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Head Office: The Secret of My Success (1987), Fierce Creatures (1997), The French Minister (2013), Advertising Rules! (2001), The Assistants (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style:
feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, manly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
office, rich and poor, aunt nephew relationship, workplace, businessman, passionate kiss, mistaken identity, love triangle, workplace romance, office worker, job promotion, corporation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, kansas, usa, florida, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, black comedy, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, zoo, greed, father son relationship, monty python, moral ambiguity, danger, obnoxious boss, workplace intrigue, businessman, sarcasm, marketing ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, USA, Senegal
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, political ...
Plot:
politics, fictitious country, un, betrayal, state affairs, workplace, power relations, workplace intrigue, rivalry, boss and employee, administration, french politics ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, witty, humorous, intellectual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marketing, advertising, rise to the top, love and romance, boss and employee, dishonesty, workplace, workplace situations, student life, job interview, campaign, career ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tinseltown has its movers and shakers, but they all first started somewhere as The Assistants in Hollywood. The Assistants is a new movie opening December 3. It's a story about a group of Hollywood assistants who use their positions to lie, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, rivalry, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambition, satire, workplace, boss and employee, manipulation, workplace situations, artists and showbiz, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ever have one of those nights where nothing seems to be going right? Ever have a job that made you ponder "this place would be fun if it didn't suck so much"? Welcome to food-service hell. Natalie, the waitress, is on the verge of a ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
workplace romance, love and romance, betrayal, obnoxious boss, workplace, couples, workplace situations, boss and employee, cooking and food, heist, love, rodeo ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
802
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors, while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fashion, workplace romance, fashion model, love triangle, looking for love, rise to the top, lifestyle, workplace, fall in love, fashion magazine, disorder, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, light, sex comedy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rivalry, rise to the top, workplace, ambition, against the odds, workplace situations, workplace romance, uninhibited rivalry, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, farce, silly humor ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sitcom, sincere ...
Plot:
hidden identity, eccentric family, couples, family problems, couple relations, actor's life, workplace, boss and employee, love and romance, workplace situations, cons and scams, best friend ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, showbiz, media satire, workplace situations, society, boss and employee, media, ambition, rise to the top, blind ambition, workplace, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s
Place:
australia, london
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, murder, dishonesty, workplace, cons and scams, working class, workplace situations, dark humor, down on your luck, loser, rapper, store ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
Style:
independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, job, satire, hollywood, disorder, cons and scams, workplace situations, showbiz, hijacking, artists and showbiz, obnoxious boss, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style:
retro, romantic, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
farce, economics, opportunist, stock market, businesswoman, scam, businessman, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, misunderstanding ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york, texas, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, mental illness, elderly, workplace, moral dilemma, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, couples, dishonesty, aging, idealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love ...
Style:
sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, sexy, humorous ...
Plot:
temptation, female nudity, business, pretty girl, love, stock broker, disorder, couples, power relations, workplace, love and romance, boss and employee ...
Time:
year 1986, future
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever
Audience:
date night
Plot:
restaurant owner, rich and poor, looking for love, satire, human nature, society, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations, generosity, bankruptcy, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant sparerib costume and the world's largest peenis; John Woo-style violence and Steel ...
Style:
realistic, clever, independent film, not serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, disorder, dark humor, workplace, self discovery, boss and employee, power relations, hitman, media, unfulfillment, workplace situations, mental illness ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, funny
Plot:
satire, workplace, culture clash, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, boss and employee, vengeance, couples, workplace situations, workplace romance, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, chicago
Similarity:
35%
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193
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. Due to an abrupt cancellation, there were seven unaired episodes.
Created by John Markus and Al Franken, LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, offbeat, biting, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, workplace romance, journalism, news anchor, behind the scenes, office, politics, artists and showbiz, state affairs, couples, workplace intrigue, friends ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
34%
568
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, partner, gangster, friends, buddies, youth, dishonesty, contests and competitions, workplace, friendship, siblings relations, school ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A family man (Meyer) recent promoted to middle management at work immerses himself in a world of questionable personal and professional ethics by a colleague (Scott).
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
workplace romance, redemption, workplace, introspection, ambition, lifestyle, couples, workplace situations, love and romance, media, blind ambition, journalism ...
Similarity:
34%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, media, hidden identity, writer's life, lifestyle, workplace, showbiz, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, dishonesty, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, wooing, parents and children, disorder, goofy hero, mistaken identity, chaos and mayhem, store ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, clever
Plot:
public health, corporate crime, introspection, love affair, society, rise and fall, boss and employee, obsession, dishonesty, workplace, couples, workplace situations ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the ...
Style:
independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
working class, lechery, strike, couples, disorder, workplace, society, rivalry, ego clash, dishonesty, chaos and mayhem, workplace situations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
Style:
talky, realistic, humorous, clever, witty ...
Plot:
beauty salon, society, workplace, family relations, friends, friendship, estrangement, workplace situations, city life, hairdresser, black, hair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, love and romance, nanny, comedy of errors, lifestyle, fall in love, workplace, family relations, dishonesty, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
beverly hills, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Fanciful series about an aspiring writer who imagines alternative life scenarios while working for a big company.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot:
best friend, writer's life, lifestyle, boss and employee, love and romance, workplace, dull life, workplace situations, supportive coworker, office, sketch, aspiring writer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
31%
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