Working the system movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant working the system movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, independent film, captivating and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with working the system, society, power relations, ambition, dishonesty, profanity, fighting the system, friendship, rivalry and misfit plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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working the system movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as working the system: Beyond the Farthest Star (2015), Freefall (2009), Cheese and Jam (2003), Capital (2012), Manpower (2014), Machan (2008), Joker (2012), Everything's Jake (2000), The Wog Boy (2000), Sarah Prefers to Run (2013).

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Beyond the Farthest Star (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, christian film ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, one last chance, preaching, parents and children, ambition, youth, religions or cults, family problems, society, clergy, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, art house, detective ...
Plot: unhappy wife, judge, courtroom drama, divorce, fighting the system, rebellion, marital separation, discrimination, injustice, legal action, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, maghreb, middle east
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 7.0
 436
Freefall (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: debt, stock broker, society, social decay, downfall, life is a bitch, working class, unfulfillment, blind ambition, dishonesty, banker, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Cheese and Jam (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, clever
Plot: unemployment, couples, social misfits, human nature, society, rivalry, social differences, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illegal immigration, down on your luck, female nudity, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia, former yugoslavia, europe
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 6.5
 6K
Capital (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, social, political ...
Plot: top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, workplace, boss and employee, office, trading, wealth, banking, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, europe, france
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 6.8
 67
Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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 7.7
 2K
Machan (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sinhala
Plot: handball, starting over, friendship, ambition, best friend, hopes, cons and scams, buddies, society, life is a bitch, petty criminal, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sri lanka, europe, asia
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 2.4
 6K
Joker (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn't find a place in either country. Over 60 years later, Paglapur is isolated, and in need of help. The residents seek help, but ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Plot: social relations, disorder, society, misfit, fish out of water, negligence, craziness, extraterrestrial, village, space and aliens, mentally unstable, alien encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, pakistan, asia
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Everything's Jake (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, survival, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world, society, social misfits, injustice, homelessness, street life, homeless, black ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 5.8
 2K
The Wog Boy (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, not serious, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, unemployment, working class, friends, social differences, love and romance, fighting the system, father son relationship, male female relationship, identity, exodus, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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Sarah Prefers to Run (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. ...
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: female athlete, athlete's life, rivalry, relationship vs career, runner, ambition, contests and competitions, college, race, lesbian, strong female lead, feminist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montreal
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Lay the Favorite (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: gambling, bet, prodigy, unlikely partners, partner, dishonesty, career change, cons and scams, nudity, casino, erection, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, nevada, las vegas
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 7.6
 7K
Rush (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. William Rush is not your average on-call doctor. He's not attached to any hospital, he's highly discreet no matter what the ailment as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium and the doctor can party with the best of them. He ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, entertaining
Plot: surgery, doctor, workplace, patient, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, lifesaver, old love, treatment, power relations, medical, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 7.1
 143K
Margin Call (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot: stock market, financial crisis, wall street, greed, economics, businessman, stock market crash, corporation, finance, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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 6.6
 55K
Bad Words (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the ...
Style: funny, humorous, not serious, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: competition, children, obsession, dark humor, blind ambition, fish out of water, loser, social misfits, rivalry, revenge, opponent, dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Keeping Up with the Randalls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alicia Crosby is a hugely successful children's fashion designer based in Los Angeles. Her personal life is equally successful as Alicia suspects her boyfriend Will Randall is going to pop the question any day now. But first, Alicia must ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eccentric family, fashion, contests and competitions, couples, family relations, family gatherings, couple relations, holiday, love and romance, ambition, working the system
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Better Call Saul (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3154 min.
TV show
Story: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, ...
Style: witty, stylized, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: lawyer, workplace situations, legal, hotshot lawyer, criminal lawyer, family relations, dark humor, moral dilemma, anti hero, dishonesty, lawyer client relationship, cons and scams ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, syria, albuquerque new mexico
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 5.5
 461
Write & Wrong (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: They say with age comes wisdom, but unfortunately, in Hollywood, no one seems to care. Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As she's ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light
Plot: artists and showbiz, showbiz, cons and scams, friends, elderly, writer's life, love and romance, fall in love, discrimination, false identity, dinner, working the system ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.5
 1K
I Do (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gay Brit living in New York is deprived of his immigration status, and risks losing his family and life in the U.S. He marries his lesbian best friend to remain in the country and stay with his family, but things get complicated when he meets the ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, fall in love, discrimination, immigrant, misfit, gender, gays and lesbians, marriage, uncle niece relationship, lgbt, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, spain
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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Style: erotic, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, sensual ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, obsession, murder, nudity, lust, sex, serial killer, manipulation, rough sex, seduction, mind game ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, scotland yard, europe
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Everything Must Go (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tony is a homosexual law student who quits his studies. With a van and a handful of cash, he hits the road hoping to become a salesman. This, however, turns out to be harder than he expected.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, witty, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lgbt, homosexual, gay subtext, male homosexuality, law student, violent content, disorder, friends, dark humor, unlikely partners, dishonesty, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: belgium, europe
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 7.5
 157
MDs (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Medicine could be a lucrative business if it weren't for all those sick people. So goes the motto of the mega-sized, mega-frugal HMO that runs Mission General Hospital in San Francisco, where two renegade doctors bend the rules and find the ...
Style: serious, humorous, realistic, medical drama
Plot: hospital, workplace, workplace situations, fighting the system, doctors and patients, medicine, power relations, buddies, boss and employee, nurse, medical, patient ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A ...
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, prostitute, manipulation, thief, outlaw, fall in love, disguise, criminal gang, fencing, trap, bank robbery, entrapment ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The Norm Show (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Norm Show is an American television sitcom that ran from 1999 through 2001 on the ABC television network.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, fun
Plot: boss and employee, workplace, friendship, crime and punishment, parole officer, ex athlete, workplace situations, friends, social worker, hockey, power relations, step siblings ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.9
 43K
Tigerland (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971
Style: realistic, tense, psychological, talky, harsh ...
Plot: military, boot camp, vietnam war, basic training, recruit, anti war, military base, insubordination, buddies, army, war, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1971, year 2000
Place: vietnam, louisiana, usa, kansas
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 6.9
 1K
E-Ring (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: E-Ring is an American television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005. The title of the show refers to the structure of The Pentagon, which ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious ...
Plot: swat team, terrorism, undercover, fighting the system, politics, danger, rebellion, workplace, state affairs, military, spy, chain of command ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
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 7.2
 66K
Magnum Force (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: "Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: police corruption, serial killer, vigilante, vigilantism, police, female nudity, police investigation, violent, police detective, murder, machismo, revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
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 7.4
 9K
Child's Pose (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, art film ...
Plot: car accident, architect, parents and children, crumbling relationship, family problems, grownups, family in crisis, life turned upside down, love, obsession, secret, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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 6.7
 73K
The Client (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, mafia, boy, witnessing a crime, lawyers and clients, conspiracy, investigation, witness protection, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, tennessee, memphis, usa
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 7.7
 167K
Dirty Harry (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in ...
Style: serious, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police, psychopath, gunfight, vigilante, tough law enforcer, urban, investigation, murder, violence, city, urban setting ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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