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The Pursuit of Happyness(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,623 votes)

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

The Founder(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 2,147 votes)

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Tetris(2023)

3.9/5 (with 470 votes)

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

Rear Window(1954)

1h 52min | Thriller, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 2,807 votes)

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Duel(1971)

PG
| 1h 30min | Action, Thriller, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 844 votes)

Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Used Cars(1980)

R
| 1h 53min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 97 votes)

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

The Man(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 23min | Action, Comedy, Crime
2.9/5 (with 234 votes)

A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent's former partner.

Promised Land(2012)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 300 votes)

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Everything Must Go(2011)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 258 votes)

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

The Big Kahuna(1999)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 154 votes)

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.

Directed by John Swanbeck - With Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli, Paul Dawson

First Snow(2006)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 65 votes)

A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

Directed by Mark Fergus, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby - With Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, J. K. Simmons, Rick Gonzalez, Shea Whigham, ...

All Saints(2017)

PG
| 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.

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A King in New York(1957)

G
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

Cemetery Junction(2010)

1h 34min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

Thin Ice(2012)

R
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 66 votes)

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

Directed by Jill Sprecher - With Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Lea Thompson, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, David Harbour, ...

Sam Was Here(2016)

1h 15min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 71 votes)

California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

Directed by Christophe Deroo

Old Man(2022)

1h 37min | Thriller, Horror
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Deep in the woods, a lost hiker stumbles upon the cabin of an erratic and reclusive old man. What starts off as cordial conversation soon turns dangerous as it becomes clear that one or both of them might be hiding a terrifying secret.

Directed by Lucky McKee

Quicksilver Highway(1997)

1h 30min | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
2.6/5 (with 23 votes)

This film is actually two one hour stories, the first based on a Stephen King story called the "Chattering Teeth" about a man who picks up a hitchhiker and the second is based on a Clive Barker story called "The Body Politic" about hands that rebel against the body.

Serie Noire(1979)

1h 51min | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 57 votes)

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

Castle of Purity(1973)

1h 50min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 27 votes)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.

The King of Escape(2009)

1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

43 years old Armand Lacourtade, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is getting sick of his homosexual life. When he encounters a young girl called Curly, he changes sides. Chased by her parents and the police, they brave all dangers to live this forbidden love and become an odd couple. But is it really what Armand dreamed about?

Sibling Rivalry(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 23 votes)

Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..

A Family Like Many Others(1949)

2h 10min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

The Green Man(1956)

NR
| 1h 20min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.

Pocket Listing(2016)

1h 32min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

Directed by Conor Allyn - With Rob Lowe

The Immoral Mr. Teas(1959)

1h 3min | Comedy
2.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest. The only sound in the film is the voice of a narrator and a very monotonic musical theme played on the clarinet or some similar instrument.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Russ Meyer

Bodies, Rest & Motion(1993)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic attentions of Sid, a local housepainter.

Slickers vs. Killers(1991)

1h 37min | Comedy, Action
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Success Hung, an ace cell phone salesman who his feeling the heat from young, up and comer Miss Cheng. One day, Hung witnesses a mob hit. Though the panic-stricken salesman tries to tell his friends about the incident, Hung's gift for exaggeration in the past makes everyone suspicion of his claims except for a relative the deceased who comes to believe that Hung pulled the trigger.

Directed by Sammo Hung - With Sammo Hung

Chiquidracula(1985)

3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him.

Little Giant(1946)

NR
| 1h 30min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

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