Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "severance-pay"

1. American Beauty (1999)

R | 122 min | Drama

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,211,657 | Gross: $130.10M

2. Bombshell (I) (2019)

R | 109 min | Biography, Drama

A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow

Votes: 126,989

3. The Insider (1999)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora

Votes: 180,335 | Gross: $28.97M

4. Weathering with You (2019)

PG-13 | 112 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu

Votes: 55,744 | Gross: $7.80M

5. Urban Cowboy (1980)

PG | 132 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne

Votes: 16,834 | Gross: $53.30M

6. Mayhem (2017)

Unrated | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A virus spreads through an office complex causing white-collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

Director: Joe Lynch | Stars: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Caroline Chikezie

Votes: 25,506

7. Tokyo Sonata (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki

Votes: 11,828 | Gross: $0.28M

8. Brassed Off (1996)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson

Votes: 20,951 | Gross: $2.56M

9. Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy

An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Bae Doona, Lee Sung-jae, Kim Ho-jung, Byun Hee-Bong

Votes: 10,339

10. Mondays in the Sun (2002)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina

Votes: 15,411 | Gross: $0.15M

11. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

R | 127 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, William Black, Jimmy Carter, Elijah Cummings

Votes: 43,880 | Gross: $14.36M

12. Working Man (2019)

109 min | Drama

When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Jury | Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire, Michael Brunlieb

Votes: 817

13. Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.

Director: Mina Shum | Stars: Sandra Oh, Valerie Tian, Ric Young, Tseng Chang

Votes: 605

14. Un movimiento extraño (2024)

22 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A security guard foresees a rise in the dollar's value and falls in love with a currency exchange house employee.

Director: Francisco Lezama | Stars: Eugenia Alonso, Pablo Cura, Olivia Daiez, Paco Gorriz

Votes: 11

15. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32

16. O erotas tou Odyssea (1984)

107 min | Comedy, Drama

Meandering amid a hot Athenian summer, Odysseas finds himself in Hydra, after losing his job. There, an elusive dark-haired nymph lures him into a dream-like hunt for the ideal love, tempting him to embrace life. Will he emerge a new man?

Director: Vasilis Vafeas | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Hara Angelousi, Giannis Goumas, Karyofyllia Karabeti

Votes: 101

17. After the Axe (1981)

56 min | Documentary, Drama

Biff Wilson worked for the fictional company "Universal Foods" in this Oscar-nominated documentary. He is in his 40s and has been fired. He is shattered, he is losing confidence. Will he find work in a similar position?

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: James B. Douglas, Janine Manatis, Anne Christison, Randy Solomon

Votes: 62

18. El juego de la verdad (2004)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Four friends (two couples) play a game of truth on the evening after one of them, Ernesto, is mistakenly told by a doctor he has only three months to live. Ernesto's a sad sack, living with... See full summary »

Director: Álvaro Fernández Armero | Stars: Tristán Ulloa, Natalia Verbeke, Óscar Jaenada, María Esteve

Votes: 498

19. La bastide bleue (2003 TV Movie)

95 min

The chef Vincent Rivière has been in charge of the meals of the Francophonie summit in Paris, after the summit : it's real disaster, some sea foods were bad and some dignitaries are in the ... See full summary »

Director: Benoît d'Aubert | Stars: Pierre Cassignard, Aude Thirion, François Loriquet, Johann Cuny

20. Läpi usvan (1948)

99 min | Drama

Pertti works as a telegraph operator on a ship. When it arrives in Helsinki, Pertti looks forward to seeing his mother again, and also the neighbor girl, with whom he is in love. But his ... See full summary »

Director: Roland af Hällström | Stars: Leif Wager, Gunvor Sandkvist, Mirjami Kuosmanen, Anna-Liisa Hämeensalo

Votes: 52

21. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Cheney Vase (1955)

TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones

Votes: 1,321

22. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Absoluter Wahnsinn (1987)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Dagmar Engler calls her brother in terror. She has locked herself in her room and someone is trying to come in and kill her.

Director: Horst Tappert | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Robert Atzorn

Votes: 62

23. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: In Another Life (1998)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A despondent man is pulled into a parallel universe full of different versions of himself and is given a mission to track down and kill one of them.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: Kelly Rowan, Mitchell Laurance, Matthew Laurance, Andrew Wheeler

Votes: 252

24. Urban Legends (2007–2011)
Episode: Three Degrees of Separation (2009)

Crime, Drama, Fantasy

First, a man buys a grill at an auction and makes a grisly discovery. Next, a young couple are accosted by a group of teens and accidentally get revenge. Finally, a farm accident leaves a young man relying on his dog to help save his life.

Director: John Griffith | Stars: Michael Allcock, Ralph deGroot, Aimee Feler, Lise Moule

25. How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014)
Episode: Canning Randy (2010)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Everyone tries to figure out whom Robin slept with Halloween night, and Zoey, the GNB skyscraper protester, finds a way to turn Ted's class against him.

Director: Pamela Fryman | Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris

Votes: 3,251

26. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)
Episode: Lawn Signs (2016)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Some of Moira's lawn signs disappear; David and Alexis work to get David's boss out of trouble.

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 1,533

27. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.78 (2018)

82 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Jeremy asks - Is José Mourinho's fifteen million pound payment from Manchester United obscene? Is making your child an Instagram star child exploitation? Is it OK to lay booby traps for thieves?

Director: Tim Cook | Stars: Jeremy Vine, Storm, Lizzie Cundy, Michelle Dewberry