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1980s Business Movies

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Tucker: The Man and His Dream(1988)

PG
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 156 votes)

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.

Working Girl(1988)

R
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 400 votes)

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.

Wall Street(1987)

R
| 2h 6min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 935 votes)

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.

Nine to Five(1980)

PG
| 1h 50min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 207 votes)

Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?

The Secret of My Success(1987)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 265 votes)

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

Baby Boom(1987)

PG
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 157 votes)

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

A Woman of Substance(1985)

1h 35min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to respected business woman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years, she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds.

Directed by Don Sharp - With Liam Neeson

Big Business(1988)

PG
| 1h 37min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 110 votes)

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Hold the Dream(1986)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie O'Neill.

Directed by Don Sharp - With Liam Neeson

In a Glass Cage(1987)

1h 50min | Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

Head Office(1985)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.

Chicken and Duck Talk(1988)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

A witty and thoroughly engaging send-up of both the fast food business and the cut-throat techniques often employed by conglomerates to crush independent competition.

Directed by Clifton Ko - With Ricky Hui, Sylvia Chang, Lowell Lo, Lawrence Ng, Michael Hui, Ku Feng, ...
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Hamlet Goes Business(1987)

1h 26min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

Strange Affair(1981)

1h 45min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

The Angel(1982)

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs- Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.

Buy & Cell(1989)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again.

Take This Job and Shove It(1981)

PG
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

Sweet Bunch(1983)

2h 32min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.

Swayamkrushi(1987)

2h 44min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Swayam Krushi is family based movie in which, Chiranjeevi played a role of an illiterate cobbler sambayya. He raises his dead sister.

Directed by Kasinathuni Viswanath - With Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Brahmanandam, Sumalata, Charan Raj, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, ...

Kalyug(1981)

2h 32min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn.

Prohindiada or running on the spot(1984)

1h 29min | Comedy
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Comedy of manners with elements of grotesque. The hero of the tape - an employee of a solid research Institute San Sanych lubomudrov - an extraordinary personality. Charming trickster and subtle psychologist, he is fluent in the art of communicating with the "right" people.

Morning Patrol(1987)

1h 45min | Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A deserted city is the setting, where a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair in this place survive?

Directed by Nikos Nikolaidis

Class Relations(1984)

2h 7min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Directed by Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - With Mario Adorf, Harun Farocki, Anna Schnell, Laura Betti, Georg Brintrup, Thom Andersen, ...

Die wilden Fünfziger(1983)

2h 6min | Comedy
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Fathers and Sons(1986)

8h 40min | Drama, History

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.

After the Axe(1982)

56min
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

After the Axe is a 1982 Canadian drama film about executive firings.

Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
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