Civil servant movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant civil servant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic, satirical and feel good films and TV shows about / with civil servant, bureaucracy, friendship, husband wife relationship, satire, family relations, politics, workplace, male protagonist and social commentary plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as civil servant: Where Am I Going? (2016), The Aspones (2004), Yes Minister (1980), Not Safe for Work (2015), Destined with You (2023), Servant x Service (2013), And Along Come Tourists (2007), The Curse of La Llorona (2019), The Humans and the Mongoose (2021), Shepherds (2024).
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List of civil servant movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
civil servant, working conditions, public service, job, workplace, workplace situations, couple relations, cultural difference, stereotypes, society, social relations, bureaucracy ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Moira, Anete and Caio are employees of a public office who do nothing in the office, which has lost some government attention over the years. Until a new boss arrives, Tales, with his intern Leda, and makes the old employees suffer with new and many ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
power relations, workplace, boss and employee, civil servant, politics, office, disorder, workplace situations, bureaucracy, incompetence, office politics, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set principally in the private office of a British Cabinet minister in the Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to ...
Style:
sitcom, political, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot:
satire, british politics, minister, government official, secretary, workplace situations, british government, politician, power relations, state affairs, boss and employee, political satire ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy drama series portraying a generation struggling with the realities of 21st Century working life and the camaraderie and friendships that bloom in times of difficulty.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, contemplative, sitcom ...
Plot:
drug addict, civil servant, coworker relationship, british, interracial romance, immigration, comedy of errors, office worker, office, female protagonist, coworker, interracial relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
lawyer, curse, civil servant, enemies to lovers, love affair, couples, secret, love and romance, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, family curse ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Imagine if three people suddenly found themselves as civil servants of the city Mitsuba. What sort of personalities and drives would they have to push them to seek out such careers? Lucy Yamagami, a serious young woman assigned to the Welfare ...
Style:
feel good, anime, situational comedy, sitcom, captivating ...
Plot:
slice of life, office romance, working life, civil servant, workplace, bureaucracy, coworker, lifestyle, workplace situations, friendship, young adult, fish out of water ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
friendship, holocaust, concentration camp, haunted by the past, elderly, obsession, memory, war crime, civil servant, holocaust survivor, new love, sibling relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, brussels
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A social worker dealing with the disappearance of two children fears for her own family after beginning the investigation.
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
single mother, female ghost, supernatural, exorcism, widow, supernatural horror, urban legend, ghost, terror, cursed, folklore, priest ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
los angeles, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story follows a poor government employee who lands in a lot of trouble because of his father's profession, while he falls for a girl who tries to help him solve his problems.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, dread, humorous
Plot:
arab, true love, family relations, love, family conflict, love affair, civil servant, couples, state affairs, family dinner, love interest, public service ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.
Style:
pastoral, lighthearted, satirical, romantic comedy
Plot:
fish out of water, personal growth, village life, career change, culture clash, self discovery, friendship, civil servant, slice of life, identity crisis, retiring, male protagonist ...
Place:
provence, montreal, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Style:
serious, tense, thought provoking, political drama, tragic
Plot:
iraq war, investigation, british politics, moral ambiguity, cover up, journalism, bureaucracy, ethical dilemma, biopic, realism, whistleblower, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
united kingdom, london, iraq, britain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
How far does a soccer fan goes for his beloved national team? Mariano Cárdenas will risk his job, wife and family to support his soccer team during the World Cup qualifiers.
Style:
captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
soccer, football, satire, football team, sports fan, soccer fan, soccer match, fanaticism, world cup, sacrifice, family problems, marital problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Pepa is a fifty-year-old civil servant living with his family in an ordinary district town. Pepa is somewhat henpecked, lacking respect even from his wife, let alone his daughter. Pepa knows that something has to change, and he even knows very well ...
Style:
tragicomedy
Plot:
middle aged, midlife crisis, character study, everyday life, henpecked husband, self discovery, realism, routine, domestic drama, bittersweet, waking up, melancholy ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 70s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, frightening, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, dystopia, doppelganger, extraterrestrial, alien parasite, supernatural, parasite, evil wins, monster, alien possession, body horror ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 1950s, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot:
forbidden love, immigration, surveillance, politics, immigrant, police, irony, flower shop, italian immigrant, factory worker, racism, xenophobia ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, period drama
Plot:
spy, world war two, espionage, cia agent, double agent, female agent, british government, lovers, prospector, spy hero, spy mission, government agent ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that ...
Style:
tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, cancer, civil servant, colleague, friend, on the road, friendship between men, drunkenness, business trip, card playing, bribery, male friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, europe
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
After being struck by a car, 52-year-old civil servant Kenzaburou Tondabayashi finds himself reincarnated as the villainess of his daughter’s favorite video game! Committed to his role as the haughty and arrogant Grace Auvergne, Kenzaburou plays ...
Style:
uplifting, light hearted, romantic comedy, anime, parody ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
isekai, reincarnation, villainess, high school life, fish out of water, gender bender, heartwarming, fantasy world, friendship, slice of life, alternate reality, civil servant ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Ko Sang-Sik is in his 40's and still single. He works as the environmental facility section chief at city hall. Ko Sang-Sik becomes involved with Kang Min-Joo. She is also in her 40's and still single. She works as a PD at a broadcasting ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
romantic relationship, love triangle, male female relationship, romantic triangle, love and romance, new love, love story, in love, love interest, ex couple relations, love affair, relationship vs career ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
supermarket, workplace, ambition, working class, bureaucracy, fish out of water, job, satire, workplace situations, conflict, work ethic, character study ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
While in the process of filing for a divorce, a mother is murdered. All of her immediate family members are potential suspects.
Style:
dorama, humorous, captivating, suspense
Plot:
rape, murder, sisters, sister sister relationship, investigation, suspect, murder mystery, family relations, murder suspect, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, murder investigation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Style:
depressing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
lawyer, adultery, corruption, politics, courtroom, poverty, small town, corrupt mayor, alcohol abuse, drunk, alcoholism, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A satirical spy comedy. Aleksis Nyqvist, an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is pushed to the head of Finland's newly founded secret service, when a suitable dummy is needed for the position. However, Nyqvist identifies with his role ...
Style:
action thriller, dark comedy
Plot:
satire, political satire, agent, russian spy, nepotism, cia agent, covert operation, spy, embarrassment, beach, secret service, espionage ...
Place:
russia, helsinki finland, finland
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the ...
Style:
suspenseful, slapstick, spoof, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
police station, small town, friendship, nothing goes right, police officer, hostage situation, swat, save the day, workplace situations, dull life, law enforcement, workplace ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, death of wife, love and romance, death, love story, relationships, single parent, honest, family drama, family relations, starting over ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a daughter of sixteen — struggling with the problems of everyday life. Seemingly ordinary problems, oh, and the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, disturbing, dark comedy
Plot:
mafia, bandit, satire, lifestyle, gang, temptation, crime family, sicilian mafia, mobster, cosa nostra, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, organized crime ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through ...
Plot:
rudeness, poet, sexuality, poem, wandering, social outcast, outsider, morality, bourgeoisie, dying young, barracks, drunk ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 315 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of forbidden love in 1800's India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
Style:
atmospheric, historical drama, realistic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interracial relations, secret relationship, military, victorian england, british raj, culture clash, racism, betrayal, state affairs, love and romance, intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 1870s, victorian era
Place:
india, asia, england, europe, himalaya ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Style:
political, gay cinema, political drama
Plot:
homosexual history, gay african american, gay interest, gay, civil rights movement, civil rights, african american, minister, gay rights, homosexual, protest, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., new york, harlem
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