Highest-Rated Movies about 'Career Change', Sort by Popularity

A Merry War (1997), Floodtide (1949), Friends with Benefits (2011), The Hero (2017), David Brent: Life on the Road (2016), The Lamp Still Burns (1943), Chilly Christmas (2012), The Kansan (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Career Change movies.

#1. A Merry War (1997)

Storyline: When successful advertiser Gordon Comstock (Richard E. Grant) abruptly walks away from his career to pursue his dream of being a poet, his path is much more difficult than expected. At first encouraged by a prior publishing of his work, Comstock has trouble finding work, and soon financial problems begin to pile up. Also frustrating is that his former co-worker and girlfriend, Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter), seems uninterested in sex, although she does stand by him despite his struggles.

Plot Keywords: poet, girlfriend, sister, publisher, former boss, landlady, amusing ...

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#3. Friends with Benefits (2011)

Storyline: Jamie Rellis (Mila Kunis) is a New York City head-hunter trying to sign Los Angeles-based art director Dylan Harper (Justin Timberlake) for her client. When he takes the job and makes the move, they quickly become friends. Their friendship turns into a friendship with benefits, but with Jamie's emotionally damaged past and Dylan's history of being emotionally unavailable, they have to try to not fall for each other the way Hollywood romantic comedies dictate.

Plot Keywords: boyfriend, love interest, mother, sister, lighthearted, sultry, airy ...

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#4. The Hero (2017)

Storyline: Lee Hayden is a veteran actor of Westerns whose career's best years are behind him after his one really great film, "The Hero". Now, scraping by with voice-overs for commercials, Lee learns that he has a terminal prognosis of pancreatic cancer. Unable to bring himself to tell anyone about it, especially his estranged family, Lee can only brood alone as troubling, yet inspiring, dreams haunt him. Things change when he meets Charlotte Dylan, a stand-up comedienne who becomes a lover who inadvertently jump-starts his public profile. Now facing a profound emotional conflict of having a potential career comeback, even as his imminent death is staring him in the face, Lee must finally come to terms with both realities when he finally confesses his situation to the one person he can.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Plot Keywords: actor, ex-wife, star, drug dealer, daughter, comedian, brooding ...

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#5. David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

Storyline: About 13 years on from his appearance in the documentary series The Office, a documentary film crew is once again following the life of David Brent. He is now working as a rep for cleaning goods distributor but still harbours dreams of making it big in the music business. Acting on this, he takes three weeks off work and tours with a new-look version of Foregone Conclusion, the band he was in in the 90s (he's the only remaining original member, for various reasons...).

Plot Keywords: salesman, aspiring musician, band frontman, cheeky, amusing, witty, playful ...

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#7. Chilly Christmas (2012)

Storyline: It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: animal, boy, dog owner, father, son, best friend, puppy ...

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#8. The Kansan (1943)

Storyline: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: cowboy, marshal, banker, townspeople, bank robber, bystander, brooding ...

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#9. Lost in Florence (2017)

Storyline: Eric Lombard is at a crossroads - does he continue to pursue his long-shot dream of playing professional football, or does he start the next phase of his life, and apply to law school? As he struggles with this decision, Eric - along with his longtime girlfriend, Colleen - visits his cousin in Florence. There, to his surprise, he gets involved with the ancient local sport of Calcio Storico - and everything that Eric has assumed about his life is challenged.

Plot Keywords: young man, girlfriend, cousin, confident, engaging, heartwarming, uplifting ...

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#10. No manches Frida 2 (2019)

Storyline: When the seemingly reformed ex-con Zequi is about to marry the love of his life, the lovably nerdy Lucy, wedding day jitters turn into a full blown fiasco and Lucy calls the wedding off. Meanwhile, the school finds itself in deep trouble and the gang heads to the water to compete in the tournament of their lives. Once they're all seaside, Lucy runs into her high school sweetheart Mario, whom since she last saw him has transformed into a smoking hot hunk. He's coach of the opposing squad and Zequi finds himself a rival in more than one competition. Now he has to pull out all the stops to wrangle in his rowdy kids, win Lucy back, and in case that wasn't enough, save the school from shutting down by leading Frida High to victory.—Pantelion Films

Plot Keywords: ex-convict, fiancé, competitor, high-school sweetheart, student, thief, amusing ...

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