Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "career-change"

1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

R | 180 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey

Votes: 1,587,539 | Gross: $116.90M

2. Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones

Votes: 246,890 | Gross: $128.34M

3. Perfect Blue (1997)

R | 81 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.

Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura

Votes: 96,196 | Gross: $0.78M

4. The Family Man (2000)

PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.

Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven

Votes: 119,534 | Gross: $75.79M

5. The Rewrite (2014)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance

An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.

Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Hugh Grant, Whit Baldwin, Vanessa Wasche, Enid Graham

Votes: 22,298

6. Love & Basketball (2000)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard

Votes: 24,378 | Gross: $27.44M

7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 76,873 | Gross: $40.08M

8. Hop (2011)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In LA, he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.

Director: Tim Hill | Stars: Russell Brand, James Marsden, Elizabeth Perkins, Kaley Cuoco

Votes: 37,374 | Gross: $108.09M

9. Departures (2008)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Votes: 55,042 | Gross: $1.50M

10. A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu

Votes: 25,515

11. Armed and Dangerous (1986)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: John Candy, Meg Ryan, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia

Votes: 12,762 | Gross: $15.95M

12. Bad President (2021)

90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The devil encourages media personality Donald Trump to run for president of the United States, so he can have a political puppet. But throughout Trump's many gaffes, the devil wonders if he even has a chance of winning.

Director: Param Gill | Stars: Eddie Griffin, Robert Amico, Zang Angelfire, Don Baldaramos

Votes: 4,684

13. Hot Girls Wanted (2015)

TV-MA | 84 min | Documentary

A documentary about young women who have been drawn into the sex trade - and how easy it is for a web-savvy generation to end up making porn.

Directors: Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus | Stars: Tressa Silguero, Riley Reynolds, Rachel Bernard, John Anthony

Votes: 18,500

14. This Life (1996–1997)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama

A series following the lives of Miles, Milly, Warren, Egg and Anna, five young legal professionals.

Stars: Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri, Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini

Votes: 2,588

15. The Turning Point (1977)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt

Votes: 5,190 | Gross: $33.60M

16. Boon (1986–1992)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen. Harry retires and opens a hotel (The Grand Hotel), with Ken as a temporary odd-job man.

Stars: Michael Elphick, David Daker, Neil Morrissey, Elizabeth Carling

Votes: 1,011

17. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?

Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup

Votes: 20,515 | Gross: $1.02M

18. Autumn in the City (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Piper moves to New York for a fresh start and meets Austin, a jaded writer. Together, they experience autumn in the city and try to figure out who they're truly meant to be.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Evan Roderick, Laura Soltis, Adam Beauchesne

Votes: 841

19. The Journey Ahead (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 102 min | Adventure, Romance

A famous Hollywood actress and a young wilderness expert drive from Los Angeles to New York. Along the way, both women learn they can't run from their past to create the future they want.

Director: Linda-Lisa Hayter | Stars: Holly Robinson Peete, Kaylee Kaneshiro, Mark Humphrey, Jessica Steen

Votes: 531

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: 1,017 | Gross: $0.07M

21. Pumpkin Everything (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Amy a novelist returns to her hometown to look after her stubborn grandfather, Tom and his pumpkin themed store. While staying there she crosses paths with a man from her past.

Director: Jeff Beesley | Stars: Taylor Cole, Corey Sevier, Michael Ironside, Paula Boudreau

Votes: 855

22. 12 Gifts of Christmas (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Family, Romance

With just two weeks left until Christmas, a busy marketing executive hires a struggling artist-turned-personal shopper to help him buy gifts for his friends and family.

Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Katrina Law, Aaron O'Connell, Donna Mills, Melanie Nelson

Votes: 5,216

23. Broken Vows (1987 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A ghetto priest has doubts about his calling and when he gives the last rites to a murder victim, he decides to help the man's girlfriend find his killers.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole, M. Emmet Walsh, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 358

24. Christmas Under the Stars (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 82 min | Drama, Romance

A Christmas-tree lot helps two people rediscover their holiday spirit.

Director: Allan Harmon | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Autumn Reeser, Clarke Peters, Anthony Bolognese

Votes: 2,393

25. Coming Home for Christmas (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Drama, Romance

Lizzie Richfield lands a job as house manager for the exquisite Ashford Estate in Virginia. While preparing the place for sale, Lizzie plans one final Christmas Eve gala for the Marley family, though they seem to be a family in name only.

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Danica McKellar, Neal Bledsoe, Andrew Francis, Lindsay Maxwell

Votes: 2,398

26. Crossroads (2021– )

283 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sophie Cross is a brilliant lawyer, her 5 year old son Arthur Leclercq is having a good time on a beautiful summer day by their lake house. Within seconds he is gone from Sophie's sight. ... See full summary »

Stars: Alexia Barlier, Thomas Jouannet, Cyril Lecomte, Mariama Gueye

Votes: 202

27. From the Rough (2013)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Sport

Tennessee State University's new female golf coach assembles a team of international misfits for the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship.

Director: Pierre Bagley | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Tom Felton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Henry Simmons

Votes: 1,075

28. Sioux City (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse ... See full summary »

Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter

Votes: 520

29. Female (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown

Votes: 1,921

30. Christmas Festival of Ice (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Romance

Emma is determined to keep her hometown's Christmas ice-sculpting contest going. She enlists sponsors and artists, but Nick, the town's ace artisan, isn't interested in competing until he sees what Emma has accomplished.

Director: Bradley Walsh | Stars: Taylor Cole, Damon Runyan, Wendy Crewson, Jonathan Whittaker

Votes: 1,389

31. Santa's Boots (2018 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Forced to take a vacation from her job in Seattle, Holly returns to her hometown where she reluctantly agrees to become Santa's new elf at her dad's local department store.

Director: Shawn Tolleson | Stars: Megan Hilty, Noah Mills, Roark Critchlow, Patricia Isaac

Votes: 740

32. The Chef's Wife (2014)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme ... See full summary »

Director: Anne Le Ny | Stars: Karin Viard, Emmanuelle Devos, Roschdy Zem, Philippe Rebbot

Votes: 576

33. My Dad Is a Sausage (2021)

80 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A father leaves his unhappy job at a bank to pursue an acting career.

Director: Anouk Fortunier | Stars: Johan Heldenbergh, Savannah Vandendriessche, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Jade De Ridder

Votes: 296

34. Oh Christmas Tree! (2013 TV Movie)

TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

After a woman unexpectedly loses her job, she must work at her family's Christmas-tree lot to make ends meet during the holiday season.

Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Sarah Lancaster, Eric Johnson, Colin Mochrie, Gregory Ambrose Calderone

Votes: 2,525

35. All About Christmas Eve (2012 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

'Tis the Season for Evelyn Wright, literally, she is a party planner in NYC. At the last minute Eve finds out that one of her agency's top clients is throwing a HUGE Christmas event, in LA,... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Haylie Duff, Chris Carmack, Connie Sellecca, Patrick Muldoon

Votes: 1,313

36. Christmas Cupcakes (2018 TV Movie)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

With their family bakery facing foreclosure, two sisters must team-up to try and save it by entering a TV baking competition.

Director: Dylan Pearce | Stars: Cindy Busby, Erin Karpluk, Corey Loranger, Fulvio Cecere

Votes: 734

37. A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, Romance

An "exotic dancer" is thrown in jail for "lewd activity." She later discovers the raid was set up by her boss to get publicity.

Director: Don Brodie | Stars: Jan Wiley, Phil Warren, Eddie Dunn, Janet Scott

Votes: 107

38. Circles (II) (1997)

87 min | Drama

Jeremy is a college student whose only care in the world is the number of girls he's seeing that week.

Director: Adam Kreutner | Stars: Neal McDonough, Antonio Sabato Jr., Teresa Hill, John Bennett Perry

Votes: 115

39. Just for the Time Being (2000)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful woman comes between a father and son.

Director: Gil Brenton | Stars: Eva Herzigova, Patrick O'Neal, Grainger Hines, Phyllis Newman

Votes: 44

40. Can Westlife Cut It? (2003 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, Music

Irish pop group Westlife cross the Atlantic to see if they can prove themselves as country artists in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stars: Shane Filan, Liza Tarbuck, Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne

Votes: 38

41. Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager (2014 TV Movie)

81 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

A film that follows Ryan Giggs through the 2013/14 Premiership season, as the greatest ever Manchester Utd player became the clubs manager and allowed unprecedented access behind the scenes at Old Trafford.

Director: Daniel Mendelle | Stars: David Beckham, Diego Maradona, Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs

Votes: 290

42. A Real Job (2001)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Meet John St. Clair, a happy employee at Videoland, home of a thousand movies. One fateful night while serving behind the counter, he meets Denise Hunter, the girl of his dreams. Their love... See full summary »

Director: Ana Barredo | Stars: Paul Kolsby, Sharon Repass, Alan Natale, Pramode Kumar

Votes: 48

43. Bitter Strippers (2013)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Bitter Strippers follows a twenty-something feminist, Cassidy, who finds herself broke and in the midst of an identity crisis when she is passed over for the position of youngest Professor ... See full summary »

Directors: Lindsay Golder, Paige Pearl | Stars: Michael Brouillet, Melvin Caldwell, Laura Eichhorn, Amie Enriquez

44. East of Eden: Art in Search of Life (2005 Video)

20 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Susan Schillinglaw, Thomas Steinbeck, Richard Schickel, Elia Kazan

Votes: 41

45. Time's Raging (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A 38-year-old woman feels her biological clock is ticking and is torn between her ex and a younger lover.

Director: Sophia Turkiewicz | Stars: Judy Morris, Michael Aitkens, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Penne Hackforth-Jones

46. The Altered Lives of LaVonne Salleé (2015 Video)

12 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

A short documentary that profiles an altered barbie artist. LaVonne Salle' stumbled upon a gallery of altered barbies while walking on Market St. in San Francisco, CA. She became fascinated... See full summary »

Director: Jazmin Jamias | Star: LaVonne Salleé

47. The Tales of Helpmann (1990)

50 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

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Director: Don Featherstone | Stars: Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, Margot Fonteyn

Votes: 25

48. Lights, Camera, Objection! (2016 TV Short)

7 min | Short, Comedy

A thirty-something attorney decides to pursue a film acting career in the unlikeliest of places - the nation's capital.

Director: John Benedetto | Stars: Anna Magoulas, Tracy Teague, Steve Lichtenstein, Richard Bernstein

49. Fabrice Muamba: A Life of Two Halves (2017 TV Movie)

Documentary, Sport

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Stars: Dean Ashton, Fabrice Muamba

50. Curtis Labelle: Pawn in My Shade (2019 Music Video)

4 min | Music

A musician enters the forest of his mind, with hopes of re-creating himself as an artist...but no matter how hard he tries, his past; represented by the piano upon which his career was ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Steele | Star: Curtis A. Labelle