Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mean-boss"

1. Spider-Man (2002)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco

Votes: 881,279 | Gross: $403.71M

2. Secretary (2002)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren

Votes: 98,747 | Gross: $4.06M

3. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

R | 121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom T. Tran, Chintara Sukapatana

Votes: 154,073 | Gross: $123.92M

4. The Last Boy Scout (1991)

R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham

Votes: 112,230 | Gross: $59.51M

5. A Secret Promise (2011)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hilarity ensues when a handsome businessman goes undercover in New York City as a "Homeless Billionaire."

Directors: Fraydun Manocherian, Fred Manocherian | Stars: Victor Alfieri, Ione Skye, Gerry Bamman, Ivo Velon

Votes: 1,045

6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 TV Movie)

TV-G | 47 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young reindeer Rudolph lives at the North Pole. His father is one of Santa's reindeer and it is expected that Rudolph will eventually be one too. However, he has a feature which is a setback and causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.

Director: Larry Roemer | Stars: Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles

Votes: 37,510

7. Labor Pains (2009)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.

Director: Lara Shapiro | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Luke Kirby, Chris Parnell, Aaron Yoo

Votes: 12,085

8. Willard (1971)

GP | 95 min | Horror

A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.

Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Ernest Borgnine

Votes: 5,519 | Gross: $19.22M

9. Cowboy (1958)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western

An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 3,480

10. Space Station 76 (2014)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A 1970s version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.

Director: Jack Plotnick | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan, Matt Bomer

Votes: 8,613

11. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.

Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris

Votes: 2,775

12. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.

Directors: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry

Votes: 7,565

13. A Christmas Kiss (2011 TV Movie)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

After a spontaneous kiss, a struggling designer ends up falling in love with her demanding boss's boyfriend as she decorates his home for a Christmas party.

Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Elisabeth Röhm, Laura Breckenridge, Brendan Fehr, Jerrika Hinton

Votes: 5,022

14. Backstreet Justice (1994)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama

A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation of a corrupt cop. When she starts investigating a spree of murders in a bad neighborhood, she discovers a web of corruption which just might shed some new light on her father's past.

Director: Chris McIntyre | Stars: Linda Kozlowski, Paul Sorvino, Hector Elizondo, John Shea

Votes: 364

15. A Christmas in Vermont (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 86 min | Comedy, Romance

A company executive is tasked with liquidizing a small town outerwear manufacturer over the Christmas season.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Abigail Hawk, Chevy Chase, David O'Donnell, Howard Hesseman

Votes: 1,279

16. Le petit baigneur (1968)

96 min | Comedy

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires... See full summary »

Director: Robert Dhéry | Stars: Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Alexandre

Votes: 4,577

17. Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006 Video)

TV-G | 46 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Greedy duck hates Christmas but loves money. Throughout the night, he gets visited by three ghosts.

Director: Charles Visser | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Billy West, June Foray

Votes: 1,442

18. The Seed (2021)

100 min | Drama, Thriller

Rainer toils by the sweat of his brow on a building site. His first job as site manager is his much-needed big break.

Director: Mia Maariel Meyer | Stars: Hanno Koffler, Dora Zygouri, Anna Blomeier, Andreas Döhler

Votes: 147

19. Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure (2023)

TV-Y | 60 min | Family

When her babysitting business takes a hit, Skipper takes a summer job at the water park. Here she can quickly put her skills as a nanny to good use.

Director: Steve Daye | Stars: Kirsten Day, Ogie Banks, Laila Berzins, Alex Cazares

Votes: 184

20. InAlienable (2007)

Not Rated | 106 min | Sci-Fi

Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA.

Director: Robert Dyke | Stars: Richard Hatch, Jett Patrick, Priscilla Garita, Courtney Peldon

Votes: 557

21. Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy

A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Richard Deacon, Joey Adams

Votes: 280

22. Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Documentary

Ronan Farrow's intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources for his book Catch & Kill.

Stars: Ronan Farrow, Rose McGowan, Rosanna Arquette, Ambra B. Gutierrez

Votes: 819

23. Crooks Anonymous (1962)

88 min | Comedy, Crime

Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Julie Christie

Votes: 696

24. A Christmas Stray (2021 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance

A man finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian.

Director: Roger M. Bobb | Stars: Andra Fuller, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Melissa Murray-Mutch, Chris Shields

Votes: 403

25. Micro-Phonies (1945)

Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Music

The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine McIntyre

Votes: 746

26. Faintheart (2008)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.

Director: Vito Rocco | Stars: Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner, Jessica Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher

Votes: 1,174

27. The Summoned (1992)

88 min | Horror

A lonely woman conjures up a dream lover during a séance using black magic. But the dream lover turns out to be a murdering Incubus with hopes of possession.

Director: Mike Tristano | Stars: Neil Delama, Ashlie Rhey, Joe Estevez, Robert Z'Dar

Votes: 70

28. Opened by Mistake (1934)

19 min | Comedy, Short

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Nora Cecil, William Burress

Votes: 65

29. El duende y yo (1961)

90 min | Fantasy, Comedy

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Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, María Esquivel, Tito Novaro, Marcelo Chávez

Votes: 35

30. Sex: My British Job (2013)

Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers ). As an experiment ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Broomfield | Stars: Nick Broomfield, Hsiao-Hung Pai

Votes: 419

31. Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

An uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Matt Affleck, Ken Auletta, Peter Bart, Peter Biskind

Votes: 323

32. Flesh Eaters from Outer Space (1989 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Jersey Metalheads face off against a nasty green Flesheater from beyond the stars in Parts 1 and 2 of Warren F. Disbrow's Flesheaters From Outer Space Saga. Features an appearance by Marilyn Ghigliotti from Clerks!

Director: Warren F. Disbrow | Stars: Greg Scott, Kathy Monks, Lena Hunter, Samantha Scott

Votes: 111

33. Toby Keith: Bullets in the Gun (2010 Music Video)

4 min | Action, Crime, Music

The music video of Toby Keith's hit song "Bullets in the Gun".

Director: Michael Salomon | Stars: Chad Bannon, Toby Keith, Francisco Ovalle, Danielle Vasinova

Votes: 10

34. Fear: Audibly (2017)

23 min | Short, Biography, Fantasy

A woman fears the sourceless sound that will end humanity. One day, guests arrive to confirm her fears.

Director: Maha Al-Saati | Stars: Amal Khj, Sally Zack, Aziz Gharbawi, Ibrahim Al Hajjaj

Votes: 20

35. Convenience (II) (2017)

Comedy, Crime

A young war vet and his gambling-addicted roommate find themselves on a local gangster's bad side when they go looking for a quick score.

Director: David James | Stars: Gregory Patrick Agnew, Kevin Borngrebe, Michael Compton, David Eves

36. Krkonosské pohádky (1974–1986)

10 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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Stars: Frantisek Peterka, Ilja Prachar, Jaroslav Satoranský, Hana Maciuchová

Votes: 185

37. How NOT to Quit Your Day Job (2011 Video)

40 min | Short, Comedy

Steve Crawford hates his job, largely because of his awful boss. With advice (both good and bad) from two friends, Steve quits, only to find entrepreneurship quite different from what he expected.

Director: Mark Kerins | Stars: Hunter Barnett, Brina Palencia, Michael Bradt, Leila Scheinman

Votes: 22

38. Twinkletoes Gets the Bird (1941)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Twinkle Toes, the incompetent carrier pigeon, is set with the task of delivering a rare parrot to the Royal Zoo.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Star: Jack Mercer

Votes: 27

39. Ring når du vågner (2015)

14 min | Short, Drama

Anders has gotten a job in the movie industry like he has always wanted, but he has a hard time admitting to himself that maybe the job is not everything he thought it would be. One day he ... See full summary »

Director: Lasse Cordsen | Stars: Jakob Åkerlind, Jeppe Alsgaard Pachai, Rasmus Bøgelund, Leonora Monrad

40. Boss (2015)

2 min | Short, Action

A look inside a weekly operation that manages the sanity of three men.

Director: Normann Bjorvand | Stars: Love Jarl, Nicolas Stromback, Mikael Åhs

41. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Final Twist (1987)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Three friends, a studio accountant, a film editor and a female special effects designer, take revenge on their manipulative, sadistic boss, after he intentionally ruins their plans to go independent.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Landau, Robert Wisden, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Votes: 203

42. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: The Wedding Ring (1986)

PG | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When Herbert slips a mysterious ring onto the finger of his beloved wife as an anniversary gift, the weary waitress turns into a seductress. But delight turns to fright when Herbert spots deadly side effects.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Rhea Perlman, Danny DeVito, Louis Giambalvo, Bernadette Birkett

Votes: 279

43. CHiPs (1977–1983)
Episode: Pilot (1977)

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

Ponch and Jon take to their bikes to bust an auto theft ring that employs a clever means of smuggling hot sports cars past the Highway Patrol. Ponch's probation is almost over when he runs into a sticky situation.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, Brooke Bundy

Votes: 201

44. CHiPs (1977–1983)
Episode: The Grudge (1978)

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

In retaliation for a drug bust, five frat boys wage psychological and prank warfare on Ponch and Jon.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, David Gilliam

Votes: 94

45. Dinosaurs (1991–1994)
Episode: Employee of the Month (1991)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

To drive up employee morale (or possibly to keep from getting sued), Mr. Richfield decides to create an idiot example of perfection and call him the "Employee of the Month." And who should make the grade but Earl?

Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, Stuart Pankin, Allan Trautman

Votes: 200

46. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: Dr. Ruth - April 25, 1985 (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sam leaps into the sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, plays matchmaker for a couple on the staff of her radio show and helps a woman deal with sexual harassment.

Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Peter Spears, Anita Barone

Votes: 408

47. The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode: The Dwarf (1989)

TV-14 | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Every night, a tiny man visits the carnival's hall of mirrors to stare at a mirror that makes him look much taller. Carny worker Aimee finds herself drawn to this lonely sad man and befriends him. Her boss cruelly pranks him. Big mistake.

Director: Costa Botes | Stars: Megan Follows, Miguel Fernandes, Machs Colombani, David Cameron

Votes: 149

48. Hustle (2004–2012)
Episode: Politics (2009)

TV-PG | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The con artists set their their sights on Rhona Christie, a Member of Parliament, who is not only ruthless in her business dealings but is also lining her pockets. Her crooked deal is to ... See full summary »

Stars: Adrian Lester, Robert Glenister, Matt Di Angelo, Kelly Adams

Votes: 150

49. Dickensian (2015–2016)
Episode: Episode #1.13 (2016)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Arthur and Jaggers warn Amelia not to rush into an engagement with Compeyson, Honoria comes to terms with letting Captain Hawdon go, and Bucket is desperate to keep Fagin under lock and key.

Director: Mark Brozel | Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Tom Weston-Jones, Joseph Quinn, Alexandra Moen

Votes: 110

50. The Affair (2014–2019)
Episode: Episode #5.4 (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

Noah, Margaret and Stacey bond over their mutual distaste for Sasha. Noah attempts to sabotage Helen and Sasha's relationship. Whitney and Colin face the hardships of their relationship. Joanie visits the graveyard.

Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Dominic West, Maura Tierney, Julia Goldani Telles, Jadon Sand

Votes: 498