My Best Girl (1927), Smouldering Fires (1925), June Bride (1948), The Pajama Game (1957), Take a Letter, Darling (1942), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), Dating the Enemy (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Workplace Romance movies.
Storyline: Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, silent film, classic, american film, 1920s, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, melodrama, classic hollywood, love triangle, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to cover the Brinker family's "typical American wedding." But triangles lurk beneath the surface of the impending nuptials. Can Carey rescue a story (and his job) out of the wreckage? Can all the sundered hearts be re-united?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic hollywood, career woman, lighthearted humor, adapted screenplay, urban setting, emotional entanglement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions!—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, love, song and dance, broadway, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.—Ken Carson <kcarson@efn.org>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic film, strong female lead, independent woman, golden age of hollywood, office politics, feminist themes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Johnny on his release from his jail joins the restaurant where Frankie works. Johnny discovered his talent for cooking when in jail. Love at first sight bites Johnny on seeing Frankie. He makes direct attempts to get her heart. But deep a wound in Frankie's heart would not let her give her heart to Johnny. Johnny's divorced wife and kids have moved to a new world of a different person. Frankie opens up her tragic story and Johnny promises to be with her in difficult times.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, comedy, restaurant, new york, chef, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, whom she has lived with for her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions, as she is a hoarder. Her only close friend is the fiery Roz, though she also gets along with Roz's granddaughter Vivian. On her way to work, where she has been doing data entry for decades, she meets new young co-worker John, with whom she is immediately infatuated. Empowered by self-improvement tapes, Doris decides to go after him..
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, independent film, female lead, midlife crisis, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One messy science journalist (Tash) and a neat television host (Brett). Two very different people whose relationship is nose diving to get the opportunity to experience life in their partners shoes when they wake up one morning in each others bodies. Valuable lessons are learned by each as they both have to adjust to very different lives.—Rob <robert@bb.com.au>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, science fiction, body swap, gender roles, relationships, australian film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, golden age hollywood, black and white, romantic comedy, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick, a somewhat chauvinistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psychologist shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target is Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way...
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, gender roles, male perspective, female perspective, self-discovery, transformation, supernatural elements ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. But he falls in love with his secretary, Linda Brown, and suddenly finds himself more madly in love than ever before in his life. Linda reciprocates his feelings but he feels there is a too wide gap in their ages, and he pushes her in the direction of the leading man, Dick Reynolds, in his current Broadway play. Linda becomes engaged to the younger man and finds there is a problem...while Dick is young and romantic, he is also dumb. And the longer Linda is with him, the more she yearns for Steven's comfortable understanding and mature charm. (Despite the site-plot line that says so, she does not marry the son of her boss.)—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, black and white film, classic hollywood, love triangle, witty dialogue, emotional entanglement, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A luxury hotel. Steaks frizzle, muffintops getting massaged. Clemens (rare) joins the wellness area as a rookie. Lara (well-done) needs to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two of them together. Hanging in dependence. They encounter each other, until they clash.—FOGMA
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, german film, independent film, romantic comedy, youth, hotel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doug is a young man who works all day as a concierge at a luxurious hotel, saving money to make his own business. Unfortunately, when he finds the financial supporter he needs, he discovers that his "savior" is having an affair with the woman he loves. Now, he must choose between money and love.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, hotel, love triangle, ambition, wealth, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, journalism, adaptation, television, love triangle, urban ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rich businessman, Dylan McDermott, mistakenly believes that Matthew Perry, who is bidding on a $90 million restoration contract, is gay and asks him to keep tabs on his mistress, Neve Campbell. Perry, who is not gay, falls for Neve in a big way but she thinks he's gay.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, drama, lgbtq+, misunderstanding, love triangle, deception, chicago ...
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