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Cheaper by the Dozen – Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy play the Gilbreths
Belles on Their Toes – Myrna Loy as Lillian Gilbreth after her husband’s death
Swing Shift – Goldie Hawn as a ‘Rosie the Riveter’ during WW II
Nine to Five – Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton lead organizational change
Spit Fire Grill – challenging work as a motivator
Wall Street – Michael Douglas and Charlie and Martin Sheen on business ethics
The Secret of My Success – Michael J. Fox climbs the corporate ladder
Tucker: The Man and His Dream –Jeff Bridges in the biography of carmaker Preston Tucker
Lifeguard –Sam Elliott faces career choices
The Efficiency Expert – Anthony Hopkins advises an Australian slipper manufacturer
Other People’s Money – Danny DeVito as a takeover artist after a New England company
Desk Set – Spencer Tracy introduces a computer (EMERAC) to Katherine Hepburn and staff
Mr. Baseball – Tom Selleck plays for a culturally different Japanese baseball team
Gung Ho – Michael Keaton is instrumental in the Japanese takeover of a US auto plant
The Full Monty – British unemployment through the eyes of the unemployed
Pretty Woman – Richard Gere and Julia Roberts on customer satisfaction and negotiation
Twelve Angry Men – Henry Fonda as a group leader of a murder trial jury
Twelve O’clock High – Gregory Peck as a WW II bomber leader under stress
Local Hero – Peter Riegert as a deal maker who meets stiff Scottish resistance
Cash McCall – Natalie Wood changes takeover artist James Garner’s view of the world
Working Girl – Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford pitch radio idea on Wall Street
Working – a PBS Special based on Studs Terkel’s book of the same name
The Apartment – Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLaine on life working at an insurance company
Tootsie – Dustin Hoffman learns how women are treated by dressing and working as one
MASH – (the movie) non-conformist MDs battle military bureaucracy
The Godfather (Part 1) – organization of crime syndicate, leadership and ethics
Gattica - genetic discrimination in the workforce
The Temp -- life at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy
Office Space - bad management leads to low morale, fraud, and sabotage
GlenGary/GlenRoss - competitive pressure affects sales force
Human Resources - a son must lay off his father (in French with subtitles)
Disclosure – Michael Douglas is the victim of sexual harassment
The Molly Maguires – Sean Connery in the US coal mines
Matewan – John Sayles’ film about the US coal mines
The Organizer – Marcello Mastrianni organizes Italian textile workers
Hoffa – Jack Nicholson plays in the biography of the US Teamster President
Fist – Sylvester Stallone plays in the fictionalized story of Hoffa
Norma Rae – Sally Field helps organize a US textile mill
On the Waterfront – Marlon Brando and Karl Malden on corrupt longshoreman’s union
I’m All right Jack – Peter Sellers on the absurdities of the UK labor movement
Salt of the Earth – Latino unionists in the mines of the US Southwest
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