Heartbeat Detector (2007), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Kontroll (2003), Whisky Romeo Zulu (2004), 99 francs (2007), Death of a Salesman (1951), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), Save the Tiger (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Workplace Stress movies.
Storyline: A psychiatrist, Simon, uncovers Mathias Jüst, and he discovers that his unhinged target may have Nazi ties.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, corporate corruption, mind control, workplace stress, moral dilemma, identity crisis, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.
Plot Keywords: divorce, family, father-son relationship, marriage, emotional conflict, new york, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú's (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the surface, where the real people go home after work, who go to the movies or a fine restaurant is now replaced by the dark, cold and solitude arena of his new dwellings. He, and his motley crew of ragtag metro ticket Kontrollers must patrol the trains that run these City dwellers back and forth and with daily ritual, check that no one dare come down into their world for a free ride. With indifferent passengers, a possible love interest, a regime set on competition and to top it all a mysterious serial killer at large, Kontroll is a dark and bleak comedy of the world of the ticket inspector, who, in the end must keep this Metro system running. If not, what would be the worst that could happen, if they ever lost control? Dare you ride here for free, too?
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, surrealism, urban loneliness, underground world, social outcasts, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film tells the story prior to the accident LAPA Boeing 737 on 31 August 1999 after hitting an embankment in central Buenos Aires, killing 67 people. Directed and performed by a former pilot of the same company, this film reveals a complex web of complicity between the Air Force and the company to circumvent security controls in order to obtain greater economic benefit in operations.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, workplace, social satire, independent film, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, critique of capitalism, moral decay, materialism, workplace stress, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
Plot Keywords: tragedy, play adaptation, family conflict, american dream, mental breakdown, father-son relationship, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he?—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, psychological thriller, surrealism, social criticism, workplace stress, absurdism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film depicts a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bundles of money. His day is filled with unusual episodes as he picks up a hitchhiker/prostitute, arranges for his company's warehouse to burn down so he can collect the insurance-money, he hires strippers for his buddies and gets engaged in an animal rights campaign, a fashion show and experiences a rather uncomfortable flashback to the war.—Kristian Krokfoss <krokus@online.no>
Plot Keywords: drama, moral dilemma, midlife crisis, corporate corruption, psychological stress, american dream, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.
Plot Keywords: fashion, workplace, comedy, drama, female empowerment, new york, workplace competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick hates his boss, mostly because he's expected to work from before sunrise to after sunset and his boss, Mr. Harken, calls him out for being a minute late and blackmails him so he can't quit. Dale hates his boss, Dr. Julia Harris, because she makes unwelcome sexual advances when he's about to get married. But Dale is on that pesky list of child offenders so he can't quit. Kurt actually likes his job and his boss, well, up until his boss dies and the boss's coked-out, psychopathic son takes over. But who would be crazy enough to quit their jobs in such poor economic times? Instead Nick, Dale and Kurt drunkenly and hypothetically discuss how to kill their bosses, and before they know it, they've hired a murder consultant to help them pull off the three deeds.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, workplace, revenge, dark comedy, american, r-rated ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The automation engineer Alain Getty and his beloved wife Bénédicte have just moved to the suburb of Bel-Air. Alain has developed the prototype of a flying web-cam for Pollock S.A., a high-tech company. After a successful presentation of his project to their clients, Alain invites his boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice for dinner at his home. The couple arrives late, and Alice is extremely rude, insulting her husband and the young couple, and forcing Richard to leave the house earlier. During the night, Alain finds a rare Scandinavian lemming stuck in the siphon of the sink in the kitchen. On the next night, Alice unsuccessfully tries to seduce Alain after-hours in the laboratory of the company. On the next afternoon, she visits Bénédicte to apologize her behavior and cynically tells her sexual harassment to her husband. Then she locks herself in a room and commits suicide. On the next days, Bénédicte changes her behavior and relationship with Alain, seeming to be possessed by Alice.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, drama, marital crisis, supernatural, family breakdown, french film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to "level" the playing field, both professionally and personally. Sir Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.—Edgy01
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, thriller, workplace, murder, psychological warfare, dark humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simons exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simons horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
Plot Keywords: thriller, psychological thriller, black comedy, dystopian, identity crisis, office politics, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "Dead Letter Office" stamped on the front. As an adult, she becomes consumed with a desire to find him and takes a job with the Dead Letter Office, convinced that she can use them to fulfill her romantic notions of a reunion with her father. What awaits her at the DLO is far more than that ...—Peter Webb <tjebi@mpx.com.au>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, social critique, bureaucracy, office politics, existentialism, workplace stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds who offers him a rather unusual solution to his problems - cloning.
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, cloning, 1990s, american film, workplace stress, identity crisis ...
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