Headhunted to another world: from salaryman to big four

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows headhunted to another world: from salaryman to big four

poster The Retrievers

The Retrievers

Carefree electrician Tom Cathral is recruited by The Company, and is quickly offered a full-time promotion to join the Retrievers, an elite squad of crooked secret operatives. His refusal to kill botches …

poster Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!

poster Pay or Die

Pay or Die

An underworld kingpin's daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her - a 300+ pound psychic and a female impersonator

Exposé

Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

poster Patterns

Patterns

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…

poster Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Nonemn - Mystery, Drama

When newspaper advice columnist Alex Doogle gets brutally beaten for advising a young woman to leave her violent fiancé, he turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection. But Holmes soon discovers that the seem…

poster A Stranger in Town

A Stranger in Town

67mn - Crime, Romance

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiti…

The Web

87mn - Thriller, Drama

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Perfect Profile

Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…

poster Stakeout

Stakeout

90mn - Crime, Drama

A young private investigator on the gritty streets of Los Angeles faces an impossible choice when he falls for the woman he's supposed to be surveilling for insurance fraud. With his sick mother's medical…

poster Cosmos Laundromat

Cosmos Laundromat

12mn - Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

On a desolate island, a suicidal sheep named Franck meets his fate…in the form of a quirky salesman named Victor, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. The gift is many lifetimes, actually, in many diffe…

poster Where Is My Treasure?

Where Is My Treasure?

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

poster Fate's Turning

Fate's Turning

A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the…

poster Captain Apache

Captain Apache

Captain Apache, a Native American cavalry officer, finds himself caught between two worlds when he's assigned to investigate the murder of an Indian Affairs commissioner. Armed only with the victim's dyin…

poster A Sailor-Made Man

A Sailor-Made Man

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

poster Marching On

Marching On

118mn - War, Drama

After finding a golden coin, a young orphaned boy's wild spending leads him down a path of materialism and debt, until he escapes to his uncle's countryside retreat where he learns three essential life le…

poster Broke in China

Broke in China

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small w…

poster The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour

68mn - Mystery, Thriller

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. …

poster The Sea Squawk

The Sea Squawk

A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of jewel thieves, and his accomplice Pearl Blackstone, hav…

poster Max's First Job

Max's First Job

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late.

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