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150 films tagged work, showing 50
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2025 · Drama
A therapist looks after a daughter who has to be fed through a tube at night, in a motel room, because the ceiling of their flat came down. Her husband is away at sea, her clients are a lot, and she is not sleeping.
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2025 · Comedy
Bridget Jones is widowed with two young children, and everyone around her is saying it is time to start dating again. She goes back to work and gets chased by a man in his twenties.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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2025 · Comedy
A guardian angel tries to show a broke gig worker that money is not the answer by swapping his life with his rich boss's, and it costs him his wings. Easygoing comedy, with the fantasy kept small.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A killer who hunts couples every Valentine's Day mistakes two coworkers at a work dinner for a date. Half romantic comedy, half slasher, and it keeps swapping between the two.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
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2025 · Drama
A gold-medal student remakes himself as the college troublemaker to impress a girl, drops out with dozens of failed exams, and then lies his way into a job he never earned. Long, and it follows him for years.
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2025 · Comedy
An American executive flies to Paris to buy a famous champagne house before Christmas, and spends her one night off with a local charmer who turns out to be the owner's son. A Christmas romance built around a deal.
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2025 · Drama
An American film director comes to Paris to work during Fashion Week, and is diagnosed with breast cancer while she is there. The film follows her through it.
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2025 · Drama
A family in Chennai spends years saving for a three-bedroom house of their own, with rents rising faster than the savings. It follows them across many years, and the drama is money, jobs and exams.
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2025 · Comedy
A burned-out paramedic finally gets the office job he applied for, and has to work one last 24-hour shift with his partner and a student riding along. The night runs from funny to awful, call by call.
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2025 · Mystery
Daisy spends her days reviewing flagged videos for a social platform under strict quotas, until one clip she cannot forget sends her looking for the man in it. It is bleak, and stays close to her.
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2025 · Fantasy
A man buys a vacuum cleaner, finds it haunted, and the repairman he calls tells him about the factory where it was made and the worker who died there. A Thai ghost story played as a black comedy.
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2025 · Thriller
A finance prodigy joins a big investment bank as assistant to its star dealmaker, then an executive asks him to trick his mentor into signing off on falsified accounts. Most of it is deals and manoeuvring.
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2025 · Drama
A Sudanese woman working as a caregiver in Cairo watches the tension build between other African migrants and the local gangs. A first feature, with a first-time lead.
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2025 · Drama
A well-known TV host, married and successful, feels finished with his career and starts secretly writing stories, while a strange new acquaintance tells him fantastical tales. Slow and small, a man drifting.
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2025 · Drama
A successful photographer gives it up to write novels and finds that good reviews do not pay rent. He takes gig app jobs one after another, judged each time by a rating everyone can see.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary portrait of Naples, built from fragments of the days of the people who live and work there. There is no story to follow, only the city.
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2025 · Romance
Two young people meet, drop everything and move to a new city together, where she chases a career as a chef and he cannot get himself going. The strain shows in the relationship.
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2025 · Drama
A teenager turns his back on what his wealthy parents expect of him and takes an apprenticeship on a building site. He falls for Vlad, a Ukrainian bricklayer weighing up whether to go home and fight.
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2025 · Drama
A computer engineer in her thirties loses the funding for her tech project and takes a job on the till at a big electronics shop. A Spanish drama that stays with her while she works out what she wants.
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2025 · Comedy
A paralegal is laid off and takes a job babysitting his psychiatrist's granddaughters. He falls for their mother.
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2025 · Drama
A woman in HR at a demanding company interviews one young job applicant after another while quietly working out whether to keep a pregnancy nobody knows about. Much of it is those interviews.
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2025 · Comedy
An office worker spots a woman on the subway, lets her talk him out of his routine, and finds himself on a crime spree with the police behind them. It gets out of the office fast and stays on the move.
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2025 · Thriller
A woman on parole takes a live-in maid job with a rich Long Island family and gets an attic room that locks from the outside. Her employer's moods run the house, and the job is hard to leave.
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2025 · Comedy
An architect and a chef move to California, and then her restaurant takes off in the same week his building falls down. The marriage sours from there, in very sharp dialogue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An American actor stuck in Tokyo taking whatever work he can get joins an agency that hires people out to play family members and friends for strangers. It is a run of separate jobs, each a small story about someone else.
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2025 · Thriller
Three saturation divers are working on a gas line 300 feet under the North Sea when the ship above them loses its position, dragging the diving bell away and stranding one of them on the bottom. It is a true story, and most of it is the rescue.
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2025 · Crime
A single mother with a sick daughter has until ten in the morning to find the rent, and every hour of the day makes it worse. It stays on her through one long stretch until she is out of options.
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2025 · Drama
A young graduate talks her way into a tech startup, suggests the name Tinder for its dating app, and learns what the industry thinks of women. It is a founder story, told fast.
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2025 · Thriller
One evening shift on an understaffed hospital ward, start to finish, with one nurse, one colleague and an intern between them covering every patient on the floor. It is ninety minutes and it never lets up.
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2025 · Comedy
A single mother loses her job before Christmas and disguises herself as an old man to get hired as Santa at a ski resort, where the owner's son starts to suspect her. Light and warm, all of it over the holidays.
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2025 · Drama
An unknown Copenhagen teacher wins the competition to build a monument at the end of Paris's grand axis, and is handed the biggest project in the country. Then he meets the engineers and the budget.
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2025 · Comedy
A bailiff in Cluj evicts a homeless man from a basement and he kills himself, which happens early and leaves her going around the city trying to work out what she owes him. It is played as black comedy, and the guilt sets in straight away.
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2025 · Drama
A publishing house owner in his forties is worn down by work and a strained marriage when his mother, a retired nurse recovering from surgery, starts coming to the office and takes a job there. Most of it is the daily business of one workplace.
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2026 · Comedy
Twenty years on, Andy's newsroom is laid off by text message and she is hired into Runway as features editor over Miranda's objections. The magazine is losing to clickbait, and the two of them have to deal with it.
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2026 · Horror
Passed over for promotion, a corporate strategist ends up washed onto a Thai island with the boss who denied it, and he is the badly injured one. Two people, one beach, and the power the other way round.
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2026 · Comedy
The CEO of an airline runs it under a strict no-dating rule, then has to work a big case with the reserved British lawyer she has just hired. A romantic comedy about two people trying not to.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
A chauvinist ad executive argues that men have it harder, knocks himself out, and wakes in a world run by women where the colleague he promoted as cover is now his boss. A broad comedy that flips every scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
Two men who cannot stand each other are sent to Brazil to sell a new condom as the official condom of the World Cup, and end up locked up in a country that takes football seriously. Broad and loud throughout.
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2026 · Drama
In 1975 a nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain follows a girl to Provincetown, runs out of money, and talks his way into a dishwashing job at a seafood restaurant. It is one summer in a loud, drug-soaked kitchen.
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2026 · Drama
The director of a Paris nursing home tries to get her overworked staff to take up a gentler way of caring for people with dementia, and meets a Japanese playwright who is dying. Over three hours, and most of it is people talking.
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2026 · Horror
A content moderator at a video app keeps flagging execution clips that look far too real, and nobody at work will take her seriously. She posts them on Reddit instead, and they take off.
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2026 · Comedy
A car salesman takes leave to run the house and mind three daughters while his wife flies to South Korea to get her invention made. He is bad at it, and the help that turns up is worse.
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2026 · Thriller
In a provincial Russian town in 2022, a business executive on the verge of laying off his staff discovers his wife has been unfaithful. A marriage coming apart, with the war always in the background.
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2026 · Romance
Three lonely people who work at one department store fall in together, one of them a stockroom clerk who hides from the way people look at her. It is slow, and it stays with the three of them.
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2026 · Drama
A woman comes out of rehab and back to the family beach house, without the career that used to tell her who she was. Quiet and close in, mostly her and the people around her.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2026 · Documentary
A documentary about the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett and the employees who came forward after him, saying they reported safety problems and were told to overlook them. It follows the investigations as they run.
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