🏷 Discover The Best Work Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Explore the World of Work through Cinema and Television

Get ready to dive into the fascinating realm of work-related movies and TV shows that will captivate your imagination and inspire you to reach new heights in your career. From heartwarming dramas to thought-provoking documentaries, our curated selection has something for everyone. Discover the best films and series that will make you laugh, cry, and reflect on your own professional journey.

Cast

Aoi Yuuki

Takeo Otsuka

Katsuyuki Konishi

Hina Kino

The Apothecary Diaries (2023) TV Show

8.6 599 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 49

Audience: TV-14

Story: Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!

Plot: detective, affectation, work, politics, female protagonist, maid, historical, royal court, ...

Cast

Rainn Wilson

John Krasinski

Jenna Fischer

Ed Helms

The Office (2005) TV Show

8.6 5.3K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 186

Audience: TV-14

Story: The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

Plot: office, work, boss, remake, mockumentary, employer employee relationship, sitcom, employment, ...

Cast

Kenji Akabane

Naomi Ohzora

Ayana Taketatsu

Tomoya Takagi

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (2020) TV Show

8.3 987 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Shinichi Sakurai’s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Hana Uzaki — his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman — has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper charm and peppy persistence, this might just be the start of a beautiful relationship!

Plot: work, romance, slice of life, based on manga, ecchi, college student, anime

BLEND-S (2017) TV Show

8.2 263 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: High school girl Maika Sakuranomiya has trouble finding a part-time job because of how scary she looks when smiling. However, she is scouted one day by Dino, the manager of the café Stile where its waitresses play unique traits such as tsundere and younger sister. Maika is given a sadist trait because of her looks and has to adopt a dominant and cruel persona when servicing customers, particularly masochist ones.

Plot: waitress, work, workplace, cafeteria, romance, slice of life, based on manga, seinen, ...

Cast

Jon Hamm

Elisabeth Moss

Vincent Kartheiser

January Jones

Mad Men (2007) TV Show

8.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 92

Audience: TV-14

Story: Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

Style: dark, intense

Plot: work, marketing, marriage, workplace, period drama, advertising, historical, advertising agency, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Yuka Iguchi

Show Hayami

Mutsumi Tamura

Takehito Koyasu

Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019) TV Show

8.1 137 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 60

Audience: TV-14

Story: When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Myne intends to do everything she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left.

Plot: magic, work, reincarnation, slice of life, religion, based on manga, anime, josei, ...

Time: medieval

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll

Cast

Yui Ishikawa

Minako Kotobuki

Aoi Yuuki

Koki Uchiyama

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)

8.1 467 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: 12

Story: Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.

Plot: friendship, work, writing, adoption, letter, girls' boarding school, slice of life, steampunk, ...

Cast

Alain Delon

Renato Salvatori

Annie Girardot

Katina Paxinou

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

8.0 665 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 178 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Plot: work, prostitute, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, widow, boxer, love, tragedy, ...

Place: milan

Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF (2024) TV Show

7.9 59 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Story: Lawrence is a traveling merchant selling various goods from a horse-drawn cart. One day, he arrives at a village and meets a beautiful girl with the ears and tail of an animal! Her name is Holo the Wisewolf and she brings bountiful harvests. She wishes to return to her homeland, and Lawrence offers to take her. Now, the once-lonely merchant and the once-lonely wisewolf begin their journey north.

Plot: work, road trip, god, remake, romance, travel, peddler, merchant, ...

Cast

Patton Oswalt

Ian Holm

Lou Romano

Brian Dennehy

Ratatouille (2007)

7.8 18.6K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: G

Story: Remy, a rat, possesses a palate far more refined than that of his fellow comrades. He dreams of becoming a chef, one who creates rather than scavenges. When fate deposits him in the sewers beneath one of Paris’s most famous restaurants, he finds himself ideally placed to fulfill his dream. Forming an unusual alliance with a hapless young kitchen worker, Remy begins a daring culinary double life. As Remy pursues his vision, he must navigate the suspicions of the calculating Head Chef Skinner, the disapproval of Remy’s own colony, and the foreboding presence of renowned food critic Anton Ego, who strikes fear in the hearts of chefs all throughout France.

Style: romantic

Plot: work, sibling relationship, paris, france, expensive restaurant, river, confidence, cooking, ...

Cable Girls (2017) TV Show

7.8 497 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 42

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.

Style: bittersweet

Plot: work, female friendship, telephone, workplace romance, rekindled romance, period piece

Time: 1920s

Snow White with the Red Hair (2015) TV Show

7.7 115 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Shirayuki was a young girl born with unique apple-red hair. She meets a famous but foolish Prince Raji, who falls in love with her at first sight and orders her to become his concubine. With nowhere else to go, Shirayuki cuts her hair and escapes to a neighboring country. While traversing through the forests, she meets a young boy, Zen, who helps her after she boldly cures his wounds but then gets poisoned by an apple given to Shirayuki. Meanwhile, Prince Raji sends out henchmen to search for her. What will happen to Shirayuki? What is Zen's true character? A refreshing fantasy story between an optimistic heroine and a prince who constantly stays on her watch.

Plot: pharmacist, work, romance, female protagonist, based on manga, royal court, shoujo, anime, ...

Time: medieval

The Upshaws (2021) TV Show

7.6 69 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 60

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

Plot: home, work, sitcom

Workin' Moms (2017) TV Show

7.4 128 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 83

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Four women juggle love, careers, and parenthood. They support, challenge, and try not to judge each other as life throws them curveballs. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression, or an unplanned pregnancy – they face both the good and bad with grace and humour.

Plot: mother, work, parenthood, sitcom, workplace comedy

Office Space (1999)

7.4 3.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

Plot: work, waitress, printer, bad boss, satire, dallas, texas, suburbia, ...

Clerks (1994)

7.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: salesclerk, work, new jersey, gas station, loser, male friendship, junk food, black and white, ...

Cast

Cantinflas

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Paquito Fernu00e1ndez

Manola Saavedra

Flor Silvestre

El bolero de Raquel (1957)

7.3 98 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Mexico

Duration: 101 min.

Story: The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.

Plot: work, ball, orphan, acapulco, mexico, shoeshine

Smile Down the Runway (2020) TV Show

7.3 58 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Chiyuki Fujito was going to be a professional runway model until she stopped growing. Poor Ikuto Tsumura is not even sure if he wants to be a fashion designer because of his family responsibilities. Faced with overwhelming adversity, they need to decide if their dreams are worth pursuing. It’s not impossible – they’ll just have to be creative in how they get there!

Plot: work, model student, based on manga, fashion, shounen, anime

Cast

Hina Tachibana

Yuuki Shin

Yumiri Hanamori

Nobunaga Shimazaki

My Tiny Senpai (2023) TV Show

7.1 33 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: When Shinozaki started his new job, he didn’t expect his superior to be so…cute!? He struggled to learn the ropes until Katase, his tiny and kind senpai, took him under her wing. But as they grow closer, he hopes her attention might mean something more.

Plot: work, workplace, romance, slice of life, based on manga, seinen, anime, based on webcomic or webtoon

Cast

Parker Schnabel

Tony Beets

Chris Doumitt

Rick Ness

Gold Rush (2010) TV Show

7.1 186 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 16

Episodes: 337

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Follow the lives of ambitious miners as they head north in pursuit of gold. With new miners, new claims, new machines and new ways to pull gold out of the ground, the stakes are higher than ever. But will big risks lead to an even bigger pay out?

Plot: treasure, oregon, usa, colorado, work, miner, mining, business, ...

Place: canada, alaska

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