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1. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,089 | Gross: $32.00M
2. You've Got Mail (1998)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey
Votes: 229,586 | Gross: $115.82M
3. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal
Votes: 291,715 | Gross: $46.37M
4. Kitchen Nightmares (2007–2023)
TV-14 | 60 min | Reality-TV
Gordon Ramsay visits struggling restaurants across America and spends one week trying to help them become successful.
Stars: Gordon Ramsay, Arthur Smith, Kim Seeley, Michael Cabbibo
Votes: 14,314
5. Big Night (1996)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
Directors: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony, Larry Block
Votes: 22,820 | Gross: $11.88M
6. Curious George (2006)
G | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Man in the Yellow Hat is an oddball museum employee who looks after his pet monkey, an inquisitive and wonderful creature whose enthusiasm often gets the best of him.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan | Stars: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, Eugene Levy, Frank Welker
Votes: 18,098 | Gross: $58.64M
7. Vinyl (2016)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Music
Richie Finestra, a shrewd record executive from New York, tries to promote American Century, his music label, amidst the changing music scene in the 1970s.
Stars: Bobby Cannavale, Paul Ben-Victor, P.J. Byrne, Max Casella
Votes: 24,924
8. Taking Woodstock (2009)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton
Votes: 30,012 | Gross: $7.44M
9. Hotel Hell (2012–2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Reality-TV
Chef Gordon Ramsay visits struggling, disfunctional hotels across America and spends a week trying to help them become successful.
Stars: Gordon Ramsay, Robert Dean II, Ari Nikki, Giulian Jones
Votes: 5,095
10. Strange Bargain (1949)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
Director: Will Price | Stars: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery
Votes: 863
11. Best Defense (1984)
R | 94 min | Comedy, War
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza
Votes: 6,417 | Gross: $19.27M
12. The Forger (2012)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
A teenager wanders into Carmel, California, where he is soon introduced to the art-forgery community.
Director: Lawrence Roeck | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Josh Hutcherson, Alfred Molina, Billy Boyd
Votes: 4,851
13. Rare Birds (2001)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Vicky Hynes
Votes: 1,761
14. Romantics Anonymous (2010)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie
Votes: 12,034
15. The New Age (1994)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Episodic story about a yuppie couple who're going broke, and can't decide if they want to stay together - but openly sleep around and experiment with different lifestyles, or not.
Director: Michael Tolkin | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Rachel Rosenthal
Votes: 1,262 | Gross: $0.25M
16. Rocky Road (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family
Harrison Burke loses his job as trader at a prestigious Wall Street investment bank, so he moves back in with his parents . He eventually settles in, takes a job at his father's ice-cream truck business and rediscovers home.
Director: Brian K. Roberts | Stars: Mark Salling, Nicholas Campbell, Steve Byers, Rebecca Dalton
Votes: 310
17. Zombies Vs. Strippers (2012)
R | 75 min | Comedy, Horror
The Tough Titty is a strip club that's seen better days. Spider has been losing money on his business for years. Now it's finally getting the traffic he's always wanted... unfortunately, most of his patrons are undead.
Director: Alex Nicolaou | Stars: Circus-Szalewski, Eve Mauro, Victoria Levine, Adriana Sephora
Votes: 881
18. Foxes (2011)
16 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A young couple trapped in a remote neighborhood are beckoned by shrieking foxes into their twilight world.
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Marie Ruane, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Karen Griffin
Votes: 597
19. Love & Where to Find It (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Two business rivals, a coffee store owner and a big chain executive, accidentally become pen pals when they each act on behalf of their respective friends and unwittingly become attracted to each other.
Director: Ken Friss | Stars: Elise Gatien, Clayton James, Stephanie Izsak, Lucas Penner
Votes: 505
20. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
R | 91 min | Comedy
A young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes. He becomes a struggling (but happy) tap-dancing magician. His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to bounce back by commercialising his career change.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Smothers, John Astin, Katharine Ross, Orson Welles
Votes: 1,010 | Gross: $0.07M
21. Garm Hava (1974)
146 min | Drama
In post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
Director: M.S. Sathyu | Stars: Balraj Sahni, A.K. Hangal, Geeta Kak, Jamal Hashmi
Votes: 829
22. Social Animals (I) (2018)
R | 90 min | Comedy
A childless, single, broke, stoner attempts to salvage her failing business and love life while falling in love for the first time with a married man.
Director: Theresa Bennett | Stars: Noël Wells, Ryan Darbonne, Jon Silberg, Josh Radnor
Votes: 1,960
23. The Christmas Ornament (2013 TV Movie)
TV-G | 83 min | Romance
A widow plans to give Christmas festivities a miss, as they bring back too many memories of her late husband.
Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Kellie Martin, Cameron Mathison, Jewel Staite, Brendan Meyer
Votes: 2,204
24. Christmas in the City (2013 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
With the threat of having to close her father's candy store, Wendy and her 5-year-old daughter travel to the big city in the hope of making enough money to save it.
Director: Marita Grabiak | Stars: Ashley Williams, Ashanti, Jon Prescott, Shanola Hampton
Votes: 1,666
25. Love by the Book (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A bookstore owner and hopeless romantic meets the man of her dreams and tries to save her business with the help of a business consultant. She discovers what she needs to make the ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Leah Renee, Kristopher Turner, Cherilyn Wilson, Ryan Bittle
Votes: 1,462
26. The Break-Up Artist (2009)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A professional couple-breaker is forced to become a matchmaker when new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. In order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old nemesis: love.
Director: Steve Woo | Stars: Amanda Crew, Ryan Kennedy, Moneca Delain, Ali Liebert
Votes: 1,607
27. Garage Rehab (2017– )
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary
Richard Rawlings, famed for his Gas Monkey empire and the hit show Fast n Loud, returns in a spin-off. In this show he and his team take mechanic shops in need of help and invest time and money to turn them around.
Stars: Richard Rawlings, Russell J. Holmes, Chris Stephens, Ryan Mill
Votes: 376
28. Moonlight & Mistletoe (2008 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A young woman who left the year-round holiday party of "Santaville" - where her dad reigns as the resident St. Nick - returns to find her father's business in dire straits.
Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Tom Arnold, Candace Cameron Bure, Christopher Wiehl, Barbara Niven
Votes: 1,649
29. Fox with Nine Tails (2004)
60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Follows the conflicts between being a fox warrior and loving a human being.
Stars: Kim Tae-hee, Jo Hyeon-jae, Han Ye-seul, Jun Jin
Votes: 100
30. Finding Fatimah (2017)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Shahid struggles to find love in the Asian community due to the stigma of his divorce, several years prior.
Director: Oz Arshad | Stars: Danny Ashok, Asmara Gabrielle, Nina Wadia, Wahab Sheikh
Votes: 1,224
31. A Lover's Revenge (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A radio psychologist gives some advice to a distraught woman desperate to escape from an abusive partner.
Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Alexandra Paul, William R. Moses, Gary Hudson, Sonya Salomaa
Votes: 480
32. Die Bluthochzeit (2005)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Screaming, shooting, tears and blood changes the party into a nightmare.
Director: Dominique Deruddere | Stars: Armin Rohde, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Imogen Kogge, Arne Lenk
Votes: 1,109
33. Christmas Beneath the Stars (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Romance
Based on the story by Melissa Hill
Director: Lane Shefter Bishop | Stars: Maddy Foley, Steve Belford, Vanessa Smythe, Bill Lake
Votes: 210
34. Kiss Me a Killer (1991)
R | 91 min | Thriller
A dying night club run by a drunk and his ex-stripper wife comes to life again when a drifter arrives and becomes a singer in the club. An affair begins between the wife and the drifter, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus DeLeon | Stars: Julie Carmen, Robert Beltran, Guy Boyd, Ramón Franco
Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.49M
35. Big Trouble in Model Britain (2019)
59 min | Documentary
Two-part documentary introduced and narrated by model railway enthusiast James May, following a year inside Hornby Hobbies - the iconic British toy-maker on the brink of collapse.
Star: James May
Votes: 55
36. Back in Business (2017)
86 min | Comedy
They say a mortician never goes out of business, but Zweck's funeral home seems to be an exception. Luckily, one good client finally comes along and things take a turn for the better...
Director: Gérard Pautonnier | Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Arthur Dupont, Olivier Gourmet, Féodor Atkine
Votes: 499
37. Oh Boy! (1991)
88 min | Comedy
Film crew whose members can't stand each other is trying to make a slapstick comedy in the style of Buster Keaton. It's about Boy, who runs a failing desert service station. Things get even worse when a business competitor arrives.
Director: Orlow Seunke | Stars: Orlow Seunke, Kees van Kooten, Monique Smets, Steffen Kroon
Votes: 133
38. All Over the Town (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On the south west coast of England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.
Director: Derek N. Twist | Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam
Votes: 213
39. The Line-Up (1929)
Short, Crime
A gangster asks a struggling nightclub owner to deliver a letter. Soon, his club is packed, and a gambler is gunned down.
Director: Charles L. Glett | Stars: William Black, Viola Richard, Charles Slattery, Joseph Garry
Votes: 22
40. Mills of the Gods (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Drama
A game-old-girl, Mary Hastings (May Robson), retires as the head of the Hasting Plow Works...only to see it slip rapidly into ruin. Her ne're-do-well son and daughter refuse to part with a ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: May Robson, Fay Wray, Victor Jory, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 48
41. Yhden miehen sota (1973)
108 min | Drama
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is ... See full summary »
Director: Risto Jarva | Stars: Eero Rinne, Tuula Nyman, Tauno Hautaniemi, Martti Pennanen
Votes: 149
42. Un Dia (2023)
19 min | Short, Drama
Natalia, the owner of a restaurant on the island of Aruba, struggles to keep her business afloat while dealing with the daily struggles of the hospitality industry on a tropical paradise.
Director: Nathan M. Legger | Stars: Tuesday Irwin, Robinson Nuñez, Nancy Valentine, Veronica Avila
43. Justus järjestää kaiken (1960)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Lasse Pöysti | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Elina Salo, Birgitta Ulfsson, Hannes Häyrinen
Votes: 55
45. The Wastrels (1961)
90 min | Comedy
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in which nothing works normally.
Director: Orestis Laskos | Stars: Mimis Fotopoulos, Thanasis Vengos, Beata Asimakopoulou, Dimitris Nikolaidis
Votes: 28
46. Running the Shop (2015– )
Reality-TV
Bosses of struggling shops allow staff members to temporarily take charge in an effort to boost their profit.
Stars: Rebecca Front, Hilary Devey, John Tasker, David Sandwith
Votes: 9
47.
The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode:
Payment in Kind
(1966)
28 min | Crime, Drama
Debt collectors suggest "payment in kind" after the wife of a struggling businessman falls behind on hire-purchase repayments.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Justine Lord, Maxine Audley, Brian Haines
Votes: 35
48.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–2000)
Episode:
The Tale of the Midnight Madness
(1993)
Not Rated | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Dr. Vink, helps an old movie theater in danger of closing by showing a special version of the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922).
Director: D.J. MacHale | Stars: Eddie Robinson, Melanie Wiesenthal, Harry Standjofski, Aron Tager
Votes: 1,042
49.
Clueless (1996–1999)
Episode:
Cher, Inc.
(1996)
TV-G | Comedy
Cher and Dee are inspired to make stylish muff purses for their hands. Before long everybody at school wants one so Cher starts up a business making them. However, after selling them at a show the reality of running a business sets in.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Rachel Blanchard, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan
Votes: 22
50.
A Haunting (2005– )
Episode:
The Lake Club Horror
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1974, a nightclub in Springfield, Illinois, is haunted by the ghost of a suicide victim.
Director: Joe Wiecha | Stars: Anthony D. Call, Christopher Allison, Krystal Browning, Sean Michael Doherty
Votes: 132