What was the last time you traveled on a plane or train and didn’t see anyone watching a movie? Movies are a timeless ritual that may be enjoyed in a theater, at home, or even when traveling. Even for two hours, movies provide us the chance to step out of our everyday lives and immerse ourselves in someone else’s narrative.

It would be enjoyable to highlight the greatest American films that deal with business and the workplace. I’m merely a business owner, a writer, and, like a lot of us, a movie fan. We are not expert movie reviewers, but we’d like to share our list of top movies about office routine. 

6 best movies about the workplace

Up in the air (2009)

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a man who basically travels the world to assist businesses in firing employees. He finds his entire identity in his occupation. Hell, his major life goal is to accumulate 10 million frequent flier points, which is maybe the saddest aspiration imaginable. Bingham is sure he has everything figured out at the beginning of the film, but after being paired up with Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a young, incredibly ambitious coworker, he begins to doubt his entire way of life and eventually realizes there may be more to life than work.

In this movie, we can see old-fashioned fax machines that are used to exchange documents. And only then you realize that this movie is quite old. Nowadays, all these faxes are replaced with mobile apps for iPhone and Android. If you ask: can iPhone send fax, the answer will be positive. You can install special apps like Fax App on your iPhone devices and send faxes easily and conveniently. 

Office Space (1999)

Is there a film that better captures the soul-crushing dullness of doing dead-end work in an office than Office Space? It brilliantly portrays everything of the worthless and never-ending minutiae we’ve all been forced to endure or are presently experiencing every day in order to earn a salary, from fighting over a stapler to getting eight different supervisors. And at least half of the audience will certainly nod in agreement when Peter (Ron Livingston) says, “I don’t enjoy my job and I don’t think I’m going to go anymore.”

9 to 5 (1980)

Three very different women, Julie (Lily Tomlin), Violet (Jane Fonda), and Doralee (Dolly Parton), have one incredibly important thing in common: Franklin (Dabney Coleman), their sexist boss who makes everyone’s lives a misery. They eventually wind up capturing him and operating the office in his place under the premise that he is working at home after incorrectly thinking they inadvertently poisoned him. This timeless comedy, which served as the basis for Dolly Parton’s fantastic song with the same title, is responsible for practically every “work stinks” film ever made.

The Intern (2015)

The CEO and founder of the company, Jules (Anne Hathaway), doesn’t want to spend much time with Ben (Robert De Niro) when he first joins as an intern to escape the dullness of retirement. But over time, Ben is able to gain Jules’ respect as a colleague and, eventually, as a friend by working really hard and winning her trust. They become a strong friendship by the film’s conclusion and support one other’s personal development. Therefore, say hi to the intern when they arrive at your office the following time. You might get the De Niro as opposed to Hathaway.

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Tom Hanks plays the owner of a major bookstore chain, and Meg Ryan plays the proprietor of an indie bookshop in this romantic comedy. Even though it’s a pleasant movie with two excellent protagonists, it’s intriguing to consider the independent bookstore against chain war fifteen years later, given that the current conflict is between Amazon and any left brick and mortar bookshops. Of course, there are numerous references to AOL, the early days of the internet, and email throughout the film as well.

Barbershop (2002)

Calvin (Ice Cube) decides he’s had enough on a particularly chilly Chicago winter day and accepts to sell the barbershop his father left him. But as the day goes on, Calvin recalls the things he enjoys most about the salon, primarily chit-chatting with his colleagues as they trim people’s hair. The team of barbers gets to have half-informed conversations about whatever the heck comes to their heads at any given time, which is the kind of work atmosphere most of us can only dream about.

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