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1. Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two idiots try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser

Votes: 62,934 | Gross: $30.22M

2. Fracture (2007)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike

Votes: 219,000 | Gross: $39.02M

3. The Apartment (1960)

Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston

Votes: 196,938 | Gross: $18.60M

4. Sorry to Bother You (2018)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

Director: Boots Riley | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick

Votes: 88,238 | Gross: $17.49M

5. What Women Want (2000)

PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.

Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda

Votes: 222,420 | Gross: $182.81M

6. Working Girl (1988)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 62,434 | Gross: $64.00M

7. Broadcast News (1987)

R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky

Votes: 34,137 | Gross: $51.25M

8. RV (2006)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they must ultimately contend with a bizarre community of campers.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, JoJo

Votes: 63,587 | Gross: $71.73M

9. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,050 | Gross: $51.72M

10. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica.

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Stars: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King

Votes: 8,332 | Gross: $37.67M

11. The Temp (1993)

R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

Nice guy junior exec Peter doesn't play dirty but unfortunately, some of his colleagues do. In comes Kris, his new temp, who is bright and efficient and saves him. She's willing to play dirty for Peter.

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz, Oliver Platt

Votes: 3,619 | Gross: $6.42M

12. Mo' Money (1992)

R | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A con man, seeking to gain the affections of a woman he saw entering an office building, aquires a job in the same building working for an executive who has plans to use his skills for more than just the workplace.

Director: Peter MacDonald | Stars: Damon Wayans, Stacey Dash, Marlon Wayans, Joe Santos

Votes: 8,265 | Gross: $40.23M

13. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–1979)

30 min | Comedy

He story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, and is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.

Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls

Votes: 2,177

14. Holy Man (1998)

PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

An over-the-top television evangelist finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia

Votes: 20,946 | Gross: $12.07M

15. The Best of Everything (1959)

Approved | 121 min | Drama, Romance

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer

Votes: 2,357

16. The Associate (1996)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy

A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly

Votes: 9,083 | Gross: $12.77M

17. Pollen (II) (2023)

86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster.

Director: DW Medoff | Stars: Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Leanna Adams, Ashley Ames

Votes: 430

18. The Barefoot Executive (1971)

G | 96 min | Comedy, Family

A mailroom clerk and a chimp team up to pick hit TV shows.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox

Votes: 2,060

19. Love Crime (2010)

Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ruthless executive Christine brings on young Isabelle as her assistant taking delight in toying with her innocence. But when Christine starts passing on her protege's ideas as her own, things take a dark turn.

Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet

Votes: 5,636 | Gross: $0.53M

20. Sound and Fury (2000)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary

If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing... See full summary »

Director: Josh Aronson | Stars: Jaime Leigh Allen, Jemma Braham, Freeda Cat, Scott Davidson

Votes: 1,062 | Gross: $0.11M

21. Miss Nobody (2010)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime

A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.

Director: Abram Cox | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Adam Goldberg, Kathy Baker, Missi Pyle

Votes: 2,242

22. Working Girls (1984)

118 min | Comedy

How the daily lives of seven women working different jobs in a big commercial bank in Makati are affected by their ambition for success in their chosen career paths and how this drive affects their personal lives.

Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Hilda Koronel, Rio Locsin, Chanda Romero, Carmi Martin

Votes: 167

23. Master of My Own (2022– )

Drama, Romance

Ning Meng has always dreamed of moving up the corporate ladder to become a director, but her boss doesn't think that she has what it takes to succeed in the investing world.Ning Meng seems ... See full summary »

Stars: Kenny Lin, Songyun Tan, Xiuzhu Wang, Xin Su

Votes: 155

24. Success at Any Price (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Drama

Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious ... See full summary »

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Colleen Moore

Votes: 353

25. Shushoku sensen ijonashi (1991)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Takeo is a university graduate who stumbles his way through the idiosyncrasies of Japan's graduate recruitment market. Big and respectable corporations put him through the wringer, whilst ... See full summary »

Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Yûji Oda, Kôji Matoba, Nobuko Sendô, Emi Wakui

Votes: 36

26. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1975 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

An ambitious young man attempts to climb the corporate ladder while working at a company where no one quite understands how their job relates to anyone else's, but is afraid to admit it.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Alan Bursky, Susan Blanchard, Marcella Lowery, Larry Haines

Votes: 10

27. Binibining K (2006)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

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Director: Joven Tan | Stars: Keanna Reeves, Troy Montero, Jimmy Santos, Dennis Padilla

Votes: 8

28. Kuroi gashû dainibu: Kanryû (1961)

96 min | Crime, Drama

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealously over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Director: Hideo Suzuki | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Michiyo Aratama, Akihiko Hirata, Tetsurô Tanba

Votes: 13

29. Koroshi no rensa hannou (1983 TV Movie)

100 min | Comedy, Crime

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Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Harumi Arai, Junko Takazawa, Shin Kishida

30. Double Ding-Dongs (2005)

4 min | Short, Comedy

Two screw ups try to work their way up the food chain but their own stupidity gets in the way.

Director: Gennevieve Emery | Stars: Emily Dery, Molly Getty, Adam Hiniker, Jamie Hook

Votes: 64

31. Virtual Corporation (1996 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Mystery

Climbing the corporate ladder in a futuristic company, while investigating a murder.

Director: David Patrick | Stars: Alexandra Amini, Sarain Boylan, Valerie Campagna, Shannon Collins

32. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
Episode: An American Strategy (1962)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Comedy, Family

Dobie lands a job at Lumpkin Lumber through the influence of his girlfriend Gloria, but when the boss' brash daughter takes a shine to him, Dobie sees a chance to climb the corporate ladder to success.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Maggie Pierce, Paul Bryar

Votes: 24

33. Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode: Indian Summer (2007)

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama

Peggy is given the opportunity to write copy for a new weight loss device that everyone knows is useless. She finds an interesting use for it, however. Afraid of losing the Lucky Strike ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones

Votes: 2,998

34. American Dad! (2005– )
Episode: Businessly Brunette (2020)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

Hayley takes off her headband and becomes a businesswoman; Stan plans a party.

Directors: Rodney Clouden, Ron Hughart, Brent Woods | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane

Votes: 336

35. The Amazing World of Gumball (2011–2019)
Episode: The Menu (2017)

TV-Y7-FV | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The boys help Richard find a secret item on the Joyful Burger menu.

Director: Mic Graves | Stars: Nicolas Cantu, Donielle T. Hansley Jr., Alex Jordan, Dan Russell

Votes: 297