Advertising movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant advertising movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, clever, semi serious, humorous, feel good and funny films and TV shows about / with advertising, satire, storytelling, marketing, adaptation, mentor, workplace, greed, dialogue and business plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as advertising: Mad Men (2007), The Joneses (2009), The Crazy Ones (2013), Thank You for Smoking (2005), Putney Swope (1969), 99 francs (2007), Generation P (2011), Lost in Translation (2003), A Shock to the System (1990), In Good Company (2004).
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
advertising, career, boss and employee, family problems, workplace, housewife, womanizer, advertising agency, workplace intrigue, career woman, drinking, ambitious ...
Time:
60s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
new york, usa, syria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Style:
satirical, teen, romantic, melancholic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
advertising, materialism, envy, marketing, closeted homosexual, suburban life, dysfunctional family, destiny, satire, stereotypes, manipulation, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, ironic, talky, enigmatic ...
Plot:
advertising, workplace, business, satire, creativity, advertising agency, obsession, introspection, mental illness, body horror, advertising executive, psychiatrist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
paris france, russia, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
The Crazy Ones is an American situation comedy series created by David E. Kelley that stars Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera project premiered on CBS on September 26, 2013, as part of the 2013–14 American television ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
longing, advertising, workplace situations, parents and children, office, workplace, campaign, media, advertising agency, family problems, disorder, gambling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
Style:
independent film, surreal, parody, avant garde, black comedy ...
Plot:
advertising, satire, african american, advertising executive, advertising agency, absurdism, board of directors, business, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship, ceo, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, philadelphia, africa
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22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Octave is the master of the universe. Octave exercises the profession of copywriter. Today he decides what you will want tomorrow. For him, “man is a product like everything else.” Octave works for the world’s largest advertising agency, Ross ...
Style:
psychedelic, satirical, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
advertising, drug abuse, nouveau riche, society, greed, lifestyle, advertising agency, advertising executive, corporate world, behavior control, layoff, media satire ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, miami
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, thought provoking, cult classic, offbeat ...
Plot:
marketing, manipulation, advertising, transformation, magic mushroom, political corruption, secret society, creativity, lsd, subconscious, satire, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying ...
Style:
black comedy, ironic, cynical, satirical, period piece ...
Plot:
advertising, female nudity, satire, midlife crisis, social satire, character study, identity crisis, male protagonist, career change, frustration, escape, infidelity ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
murder, advertising, vengeance, revenge, competition, police investigation, contests and competitions, workplace intrigue, advertising agency, dark humor, rise to the top, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new ...
Style:
feel good, sexy, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
workplace, advertising, business, father daughter relationship, boss, father son relationship, unlikely friendships, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, rivalry, new job ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
Style:
weeping, talky, clever, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father son relationship, hospital, advertising, marriage, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, amputation, surgery, advertising executive, marital separation, dysfunctional family, employer employee relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
advertising, contests and competitions, optimism, underdog, adaptation, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, ambition, family problems ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place:
ohio, usa
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27K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Chile, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition ...
Style:
political, cerebral, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dictatorship, campaign, democracy, protest, politics, advertising, underdog, dictator, political conspiracy, society, exile, rebellion ...
Time:
80s, year 2012, year 1988, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
chile, latin america, santiago chile, south america, venezuela ...
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77K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style:
intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot:
greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Style:
funny, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
advertising, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, insanity, female psychiatrist, sanitarium, group therapy, fired from the job, mental patient, mental disorder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
162K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style:
cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The series revolves around Rothman, Greene, and Moore, a fictional advertising firm. The storylines center on the difficulties of securing accounts and the characters' personal lives.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, witty ...
Plot:
advertising, workplace, workplace intrigue, partner, relationship vs career, friendship, advertising agency, boss and employee, ambition, workaholic, promotion, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 8 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on writer Lee Hyeon-min's original web-toon which had more than 1 million views a day when it was published on Naver, this black comedy is about the daily lives of employees in an advertisement agency and their competitive working ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
dark humor, advertising, workplace, satire, job, employee, business, business competition, advertising executive, advertising agency, workplace situations, competitor ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. It follows the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, ...
Style:
sexy, soap opera, captivating, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, manipulation, couple relations, rivalry, infidelity, advertising, neighbor, betrayal, husband wife relationship, love triangle, friends, intrigue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, beverly hills, usa, los angeles
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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
Is relevant?
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
parenthood, fired from the job, fish out of water, advertising, self discovery, switching roles, family life, parents and children, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 90s
Place:
detroit, north america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
:30 Seconds is an Australian comedy series produced for The Comedy Channel which satirises Australian advertising companies and advertising industry. The name of the show comes from the advertising slots on television that are normally 30 seconds ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, funny, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
advertising, satire, workplace, publicity stunt, advertising agency, coworker, office work, office worker, job, office, advertising executive, workplace situations ...
Is relevant?
484
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
advertising, ambition, publicity stunt, advertising agency, culture clash, judge, silly humor, humour, advertising executive, contest, rivalry, failing business ...
Place:
japan, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, dream, friendship, advertising, unlikely friendships, thirtysomething life, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
europe, london, new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
TV show
Story:
In a big advertising firm,two best friends,that are candidates for the same position,wait for the announcement which will define who will be the next chief executive officer. However,the president of the company decides that neither of them is right ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling, comedy drama
Plot:
office, workplace, advertising, career, friendship, satire, corporation, leadership, greek, office politics, coworker, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are together again! Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, retro, funny, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
screwball, advertising, farce, couples, workplace, satire, enemies to lovers, wine, mistaken identity, corruption, identity, low self esteem ...
Time:
year 1961, future, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, canada, manhattan new york city, california ...
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18K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Style:
funny, humorous, witty, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, car salesman, car, public nudity, satire, stripper, father daughter relationship, no bra, farce, topless woman, heart attack, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1980, future
Place:
arizona, california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, erotic, psychosexual thriller, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, femme fatale, stalker, mental illness, sex scene, jealousy, sexual harassment, nudity, stalking, murder, dangerous friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
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