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Workplace Comedy movies

The job is the joke: office politics, hierarchy, coworkers, absurd rules, and role-based conflict.

Mostly Martha

1. Mostly Martha

Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy Workplace Comedy
7.2
20011h 46min

Overview

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

Themes

Work life balance, Grief and adjustment, Cooking as identity, Motherhood vs career, Professional transformation through pressure, Romance in the kitchen

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Comedy Crime Romance Romantic Comedy Workplace Comedy
6.7
20011h 43min

Overview

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Trust under pressure, Power of suggestion, Professional vs personal life, Memory as weapon, Hypnosis as crime driver

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Someone Like You...

3. Someone Like You...

Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Workplace Comedy
6.1
20011h 37min

Overview

Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.

Themes

Friendship under pressure, Media influence on romance, Deception and revelation, Professional romance conflict, Gender dynamics in dating, Female agency and empowerment

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Bread and Roses

4. Bread and Roses

Comedy Drama Political Drama Workplace Comedy
7.0
20001h 50min

Overview

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

Themes

Class inequality, Labor solidarity, Union organizing, Immigrant labor rights, Employer intimidation, Workplace exploitation

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Movistar Plus+ Ficción Total
MUBI
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Clerks

5. Clerks

Comedy Workplace Comedy
7.7
19941h 32min

Overview

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

Themes

Male friendship, Workplace boredom, Social banter under pressure, Infidelity revelation, Workplace chaos, Romantic jealousy

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
fuboTV
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