| The Guilt Trip (2012) | 5.8 | |
| Superstore (2015) | 7.9 | |
| Fonejacker (2007) | 7.8 | |
| The Founder (2016) | 7.2 | |
| This is Jinsy (2010) | 7.1 |
Salesman movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant salesman movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining, melancholic and semi serious films and TV shows about / with salesman, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, redemption, corruption, greed, death, business and telephone call plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as salesman: The Founder (2016), Everything Must Go (2010), Door to Door (2002), White Gold (2017), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Guilt Trip (2012), The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023), The Office (2005), Shopgirl (2005), Napoleon Dynamite (2004).
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202K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style:
inspirational, motivational, realistic, cerebral, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
business, businessman, fast food, capitalism, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, salesman, money, marketing, greed, food ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 2010s, year 2016, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, america, california, arizona, illinois ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, salesman, addiction, unemployment, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, recovery, loneliness, tragedy, character study, self discovery, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, texas, usa, phoenix arizona, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. ...
Style:
feel good, serious, touching, realistic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
salesman, disability, cerebral palsy, against the odds, misfit, underdog, ambition, hopes, society, human spirit, door to door salesman, public humiliation ...
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
salesman, dumb, workplace, stupidity, hotshot hero, business, blind ambition, disorder, love and romance, boss and employee, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year is the sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the 'professional' way, and the way of his heart - and stumbling ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot:
business, ambition, salesman, rise to the top, follow your dream, workplace situations, working class, workplace, misfit, college graduate, fish out of water, success ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a double-glazing showroom in Essex in the 80s, led by charismatic Vincent Swan, and his unscrupulous sales team, Brian Fitzpatrick and Martin Lavender.
Style:
sitcom, captivating, psychological, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
businessman, salesman, rivalry, friendship, ambition, friends, lifestyle, life philosophy, disorder, youth, obsession, greed ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot:
homeless, life, human spirit, rags to riches, life philosophy, success, single father, poverty, rise to the top, family drama, life is a bitch, biopic ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, bay area, san francisco, america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style:
road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, highway, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, mother ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, middle east, las vegas, new jersey, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot:
salesman, sheriff, shootout, bag of money, stolen money, hostage situation, gas station, threat, hostage, burglar, problem, motel ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
arizona, yuma arizona
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
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style:
touching, reflective, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
depression, fall in love, older man younger woman relationship, love, age difference, love story, artist, salesman, older man younger woman romance, dating, slacker, honest ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, teenager, small town, adolescence, election, bullying, high school life, nerd, loser, bully, salesman ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa, north america, utah ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..
Style:
sexy, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, dying during sex, hotel room, salesman, nothing goes right, infidelity, comedy of errors, female protagonist, dysfunctional marriage, reconciliation, aspiring writer, sex with a stranger ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can ...
Style:
philosophical, talky, witty, clever, independent film ...
Plot:
hotel, salesman, hotel room, marketing, midlife crisis, christian, religion, existentialism, convention, baptist, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, xian, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, family secret, salesman, half brother half sister relationship, family bonds, inheritance, funeral, family relations, single mother, siblings relations, drinking problem, family life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Is relevant?
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: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, philosophical, absurd, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
black american, satire, social satire, capitalism, labor union, absurdism, labor strike, surrealism, absurd humor, slave labor, protest, performance art ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Place:
oakland california, california
Is relevant?
54K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When the San Francisco Giants pay centerfielder Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan Gil Renard. So when Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, cult classic, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
baseball, psychopath, obsession, kidnapping, murder, stalking, dog, father son relationship, fired from the job, anger, celebrity, restraining order ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, road not taken, midlife crisis, alternate reality, lost love, life changing experience, lifestyle change, fish out of water, parallel universe, destiny, time travel, family man ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly ...
Style:
twist ending, neo noir, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
broker, money, corporation, realtor, greed, redemption, sexuality, revenge, seductress, death, power, wealth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.
Style:
sexy, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy ...
Plot:
murder, satire, perfect crime, store, shopping, rivalry, character study, salesman, dangerous attraction, dysfunctional family, couples, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
madrid, europe, spain
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of ...
Style:
black comedy, sexy, dark comedy, light, humorous ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, friendship, businessman, american football, cheerleader, character study, twists and turns, plot twist, depression, dialogue, eccentricity ...
Time:
y2k, year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, mexico city, latin america, amarillo texas, minneapolis minnesota ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ali, who is ice cream salesman in Mugla, tries to survive in the face of fierce competition from the big ice cream brands. While trying to promote his ice cream, he tours the village with his brand new yellow ice cream motorbike. However the naugthy ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
salesman, mischievous children, investigation, family relations, disorder, power relations, society, youth, rich and poor, down on your luck, turk, theft ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style:
romantic comedy, dark comedy, slapstick, mockumentary, captivating ...
Plot:
salesman, satire, character study, bittersweet, loneliness, irreverent, social satire, absurd humor, mother son relationship, sexual obsession, slice of life, seduction ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
779K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
small town, snow, dark humor, crime gone awry, ransom, kidnapping, murder, satire, foul language, police, psychopath, winter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1987, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, north dakota, usa, persia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
PhoneShop is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 13 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
boss and employee, workplace situations, workplace, store, salesman, friendship, rivalry, escapades, friends, sketch, telephone call, verbal byplay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
This is Jinsy is a British comedy series. The pilot first aired on 1 March 2010 on BBC Three. The programme is about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy and based on the island of Guernsey, where the two writers are from. The show ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, humorous, witty, not serious ...
Plot:
goofy hero, native, salesman, social relations, partner, silly humor, weatherman, disorder, imaginary, punishment, odd couple, folklore ...
Place:
fictional island
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Fonejacker is a British comedy programme broadcast on E4 featuring a series of prank calls involving a number of different characters performed by British Iranian television actor Kayvan Novak. It first appeared in May 2006 and became a full series ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, hilarious ...
Plot:
prank, partner, mistaken identity, dishonesty, salesman, disorder, odd couple, journalism, workplace romance, obnoxious boss, life turned upside down, cons and scams ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
105K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, exciting, entertaining, dramatic ...
Plot:
cold war, engineer, video game, salesman, biopic, job, game, puzzle, designer, computer, legal, friendship ...
Time:
80s, year 1979, 70s, year 1984
Place:
japan, ussr, moscow russia, russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for ...
Style:
christian film, captivating, touching, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
pastor, farmer, refugee, church, salesman, husband wife relationship, farm, social issues, society, christian, hopes, garden ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
asia, southeast asia, tennessee, nashville tennessee
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