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1. Office Space (1999)
R | 89 min | Comedy
Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu
Votes: 287,709 | Gross: $10.82M
2. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
Votes: 594,224 | Gross: $13.54M
3. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Director: John Badham | Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Votes: 87,546 | Gross: $94.21M
4. 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: 62,933 | Gross: $30.22M
5. The Assistant (III) (2019)
R | 87 min | Drama
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
Director: Kitty Green | Stars: Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini, Rory Kulz
Votes: 26,193
6. Patti Cake$ (2017)
R | 109 min | Drama, Music
PATTI CAKE$ is centered on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey.
Director: Geremy Jasper | Stars: Danielle Macdonald, Sahr Ngaujah, Bridget Everett, Mamoudou Athie
Votes: 10,528 | Gross: $0.80M
7. Moonlit Winter (2019)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Yoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother's first love, which she never spoke about before.
Director: Dae Hyung Lim | Stars: Kim Hee-ae, Yûko Nakamura, Kim Sohye, Sung Yoo-bin
Votes: 1,145
8. Grind (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
When Eddie, a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his older brother Terry in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kentis | Stars: Billy Crudup, Adrienne Shelly, Paul Schulze, Frank Vincent
Votes: 458
9. To Faro (2008)
90 min | Drama
Melanie meets Jenny and falls in love. But Jenny thinks she's met Miguel.
Director: Nana Neul | Stars: Anjorka Strechel, Lucie Hollmann, Manuel Cortez, Florian Panzner
Votes: 477
10. Afro Ninja (2009 Video)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful Youtube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real propsects. Until, that is, he uncovers a ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Hicks | Stars: James Black, D.T. Carney, Marla Gibbs, Nick Hermz
Votes: 148
11. Whatever This Is. (2013– )
Not Rated | Drama
Whatever this is. follows Sam (Hunter Canning) and Ari (Dylan Marron), two production assistants in New York, as well as Sam's girlfriend Lisa (Madeline Wise), a teacher without pay for the... See full summary »
Stars: Hunter Canning, Dylan Marron, Madeline Wise, Sasha Winters
Votes: 183
12. From the Head (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Written by veteran strip club bathroom attendant, George Griffith, From The Head paints unflinching portraits of the men and women who people the dysfunctional family of the strip club, and... See full summary »
Director: George Griffith | Stars: George Griffith, Matthew Lillard, Jeffrey Doornbos, Samantha Lemole
Votes: 123
13. The Golden Ticket (I) (2013)
10 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Bradley Moore is having a BAD day. He gets dumped, evicted and fired all before lunch. But when a stranger offers Brad a Golden Ticket, allowing him act without consequence for the remainder of the day, things take a turn...
Director: Patrick Hagarty | Stars: Michal Grajewski, Carlo Rota, Melanie Scrofano, Sarah Allen
Votes: 46
14. Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy
Blue-collar losers, who work in a mattress store, plot to kill someone for money.
Director: Timothy L. Anderson | Stars: Mark Greenfield, Coolio, Rocío Verdejo, C. Clayton Blackwell
Votes: 110
15. Steven Banks: Home Entertainment Center (1989 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
In this brilliant one-man show from 1989, the mild-mannered, thirty-something Steven Banks arrives home after a long day at his dead-end corporate job, still dreaming of being a rock star, but plagued by procrastination.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Steven Banks, Penn Jillette, Teller
Votes: 240
16. City Loop (2000)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go.
Director: Belinda Chayko | Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Ryan Johnson, Kellie Jones, Brendan Cowell
Votes: 136
17. Two in a Taxi (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama
Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small, roadside gas station from its elderly owner George Cleveland. In ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr., Dick Purcell
Votes: 30
18. Late Bloomer (2010)
70 min | Comedy
Sean is a loser, spending his summer shoveling sawdust and wasting away. His best mate forms a plan to dig them out their rut until Sean falls for a local girl who quickly drags him (and his mind) back down into the gutter.
Director: Steven Farmer | Stars: Samson Burch, Yvonne de Salle, Matthew Farmer, Steven Farmer
Votes: 9
19. See Ryan (2010)
PG-13 | 7 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Ryan Andrews is an average guy looking to catch a break in life. When things don't go his way, he discovers the delete button on his work keyboard does a lot more than erase e-mails.
Director: Devon Newberry | Stars: Dominick Aznavour, Kevin Herrera, Esmerelda Leon, Bre Newberry
Votes: 8
20.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Law and Oracle
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fry realizes he's stuck in a dead-end job, so he quits and enrolls in the police academy.
Directors: Stephen Sandoval, Peter Avanzino | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,147
21.
The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
Is the Economy Screwing Young People?
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Tom Woods, Gene Epstein