| Clerks (1994) | 7.7 | |
| The Office (2005) | 9.0 | |
| The Organizer (1963) | 8.0 | |
| Awl (2015) | 7.6 | |
| Withnail & I (1987) | 7.5 |
Employment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant employment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy and entertaining films and TV shows about / with employment, workplace, job, workplace situations, coworker, satire, family relations, office, employer employee relationship and friendship plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Finland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as employment: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Clerks (1994), Office Space (1999), Odd Job Jack (2003), Ground Floor (2013), The Office (2019), The Invisible Ladies (2023), The Office (2017), My New Boss Is Goofy (2023), The Office (2005).
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style:
cult classic, suspense, neo noir, dark comedy, intense ...
Plot:
office, manipulation, business, closeted homosexual, greed, workplace, career, real estate agent, dialogue, entrepreneurship, rain, entrepreneur ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
chicago, brooklyn new york city, new york, illinois, arizona ...
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240K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style:
clever, funny, philosophical, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, sarcasm, satire, slacker, workplace, everyday life, weed, stupidity, loser, stoner, one day, hipster ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa, north america
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, laugh out loud, satirical, funny ...
Audience:
date night, kids, adult
Plot:
workplace, dark humor, office, computer, friendship, satire, embezzlement, corporate world, rebelliousness, waitress, obnoxious boss, workplace situations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, y2k
Place:
texas, dallas texas, austin texas, usa, mexico
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in ...
Style:
adult animation, parody, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
workplace, employment, friends, misfit, relationship vs career, workplace situations, college graduate, couples, contests and competitions, boss and employee, workplace intrigue, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Brody, a young hot-shot banker at Whitestone Trust, thought he was just having a one-night stand with Jennifer, a beautiful woman he met at a bar. But when he discovers that she works in maintenance for the building where he works, their worlds ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
boss, workplace romance, office, employer employee relationship, employment, love and romance, coincidence, workplace situations, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, hot and sexy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Life at Wilkins Chawla, a mediocre paper company is as boring as the humour of its 'Fun'jabi boss. Add to it some ordinary employees, an uncomfortable receptionist, the boss' sycophant, and the mediocrity goes a notch higher!
Style:
sitcom, mockumentary, satirical, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, office, employer employee relationship, employment, love affair, lifestyle, workplace situations, office work, love interest, office worker, workplace, co worker co worker relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of five women who face labor injustices and everyday problems as maids in a hotel on the Mediterranean Coast.
Style:
entertaining, witty, captivating, humorous, realistic
Plot:
women, hotel, waitress, employment, social commentary, mediterranean, workplace, chambermaid, job, female protagonist, coworker, woman ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Finnish adaption of the British TV series "The Office".
Style:
sitcom, mockumentary, atmospheric, feel good, light ...
Plot:
office, employer employee relationship, employment, adaptation, social relations, relationships, couple relations, office worker, office romance, love affair, humour, office work ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe, finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The workplace comedy's story follows a 26-year-old office worker named Momose. He recently changed jobs after his previous boss harassed him. He's worried his new boss will also use power harassment to make his life miserable. Momose is ...
Style:
feel good, anime, uplifting, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
slice of life, workplace, adaptation, workplace situations, supervisor, coworker, new job, co worker co worker relationship, supportive coworker, friendship, career change, urban ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
819K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Style:
sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
workplace, job, office, satire, employer employee relationship, salesman, office romance, love and romance, popularity, workplace problem, secret relationship, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Yui is an office worker and single. She works nine to five and leaves the office on time. Her ex and father, however, are workaholics who burn the midnight oil at the office. Moreover, she completes her work efficiently so there is no need to stay ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
office, workaholic, workplace, single woman, father daughter relationship, employment, employer, office work, office worker, co worker co worker relationship, lifestyle, ex couple relations ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The drama tells the story of average workers, who silently work hard on each one’s own task. They finally pull together as a team to fight through a difficult and unfair situation.
Lee Soo-In has the kind of temperament where he has to do the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot:
supermarket, labor strike, labor union, manager, management, layoff, worker, employer, boss, employment, corporation, strike ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, thrilling, comedy drama, retro ...
Plot:
women, female friendship, saleswoman, sibling relationship, job, employment, changing lives, lifestyle change, family relations, female protagonist, workplace, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, hippie, musician's life, love and romance, workplace situations, food, cliche, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, restaurant owner, rock band, employment, manager ...
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
The Whitest Kids U' Know is an American sketch comedy troupe and television program of the same name. The group consists of Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter, though other actors occasionally appear in ...
Style:
sketch comedy, parody, humorous, not serious, mysterious ...
Plot:
sketch, children, disorder, absurd humor, stereotypes, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, teenager, workplace, job, employment, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet ...
Style:
psychedelic, satirical, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy ...
Plot:
counterculture, employment, satire, small town, bureaucracy, conformity, machine, absurd humor, individualism, anti establishment, character study, deadpan ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, future
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
While he loses his clandestine work, and because he believes that Maroussia and him will no longer be able to love each other as well, Frank leaves to earn as much as she: twelve thousand, just what it takes to have a year before them. No more no ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
employment, working life, poverty, working class, realism, urban, slice of life, intimate, resilience, character study, social realism, sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
unemployment, satire, teamwork, colleague, employment agency, problem, employment, workplace, job, problem solving, coworker, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
workplace, working class, feminism, factory, solidarity, women, ethical dilemma, female protagonist, social problems, coworker, factory owner, employment ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, political ...
Plot:
working class, labor union, factory worker, factory, rebellion, boss and employee, rebelliousness, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, worker ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, political, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, working conditions, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, breaking point ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
24 hours in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
Style:
captivating, emotional
Plot:
motherhood, family life, slice of life, family relations, parenting, female protagonist, everyday life, mother, children, working mom, kids and family, parents and children ...
Place:
budapest
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, husband wife relationship, poverty, suburbs, financial crisis, debt, middle class, lifestyle change, materialism, family relations, social problems, couples ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A teenager fails to find (and keep) jobs which makes his father doubt the reason might be the boy's lack of sexual experience. As all his efforts prove to be unsuccessful, the father gives up, but not the boy's aunt.
Style:
humorous, controversial, satirical, intense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
coming of age, bakery, teenager, family drama, sexual initiation, sexual awakening, loss of innocence, sexual confusion, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, employment, sexual identity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy
Plot:
satire, couples, social satire, staff, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, problem, butler, husband wife relationship, couple relations, workplace ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Norma has to balance her love and attention for the two special people in her life: her daughter and her ward.
Style:
captivating, emotional, tension, tagalog
Plot:
nanny, mother daughter relationship, mother, single mother, domestic servant, ward, family drama, parenthood, parents and children, kids and family, mother and daughter, relationship vs career ...
Is relevant?
375K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Style:
tense, existential, breathtaking, captivating, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
office, memory, distopia, alternate world, mind control, satire, memory loss, conspiracy, colleague, double life, dystopian society, split personality ...
Time:
2020s, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the ...
Style:
independent film, sexy, sexual, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
poverty, shoplifting, father son relationship, social realism, poor family, beach, supermarket, child abduction, shoplifter, family drama, husband wife relationship, orphan ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
tokyo, east asia, japan, sarajevo, nebraska ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, offbeat, dark comedy, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, homoerotic friendship, poverty, alcohol abuse, addiction, great dialogue, homosexuality, road trip, pub, drug, great ending, dark humor ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, northern england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style:
serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
working class, vengeance, visceral, loneliness, murder, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 1990, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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