Three coworkers, played by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, find a way to get even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" of a boss: they tie him up in his own house and take control of his department. Productivity jumps, and everyone is happier, but how long can they keep the guy down?

Craig and Lotte Schwartz (played by John Cusack and Cameron Diaz) are an unhappily married and professionally unfulfilled couple. Because Craig can't make a living as a puppeteer, he gets a job as a file clerk at LesterCorp, located on floor 7½, a strange office space awash in blue and gray with 5-ft. ceilings, of a Manhattan office building, where he discovers a portal behind a filing cabinet that leads directly into the mind of John Malkovich, allowing them to control his body for 15 minutes, after which it dumps the traveler in the ditch alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. When Craig falls for his LesterCorp colleague Maxine Lund (Catherine Keener) and brings her home to meet Lotte, a nutty animal lover and pet store clerk, the three begin traveling into Malkovich's mind and decide to turn it into a money-making venture, at which point, their lives, and Malkovitch's, become increasingly entangled and existentially confused.

In a Chicago real-estate office, where the blackboard rules supreme, the salesmen (played by Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris and Jack Lemmon) are pushed by Alec Baldwin to compete in a sales contest to win a Cadillac El Dorado, a set of steak knives...or the sack! And in the middle of it all, a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all involved.

Houston oil billionaire Happer (Burt Lancaster) sends Mac (Peter Riegert) to a village in northern Scotland to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. At first, it seems like an easy deal, as the villagers are hungry for "the silver dollar." But the local hermit who owns the beach, isn't interested. As Mac tries to negotiate with the hermit, he becomes more enmeshed in the lives of the people in the village, and more and more captivated by the beautiful, mysterious web-toed Marina. When Happer shows up to seal the deal, he's more interested in the Northern Lights and sends Mac back to Houston, where he no longer fits in.

Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) and his two best friends hate their jobs at Initech, especially now that their passive-aggressive division vice president is set on downsizing. When his cheating girlfriend convinces him to see a hypnotherapist to cure him of being a loser, Peter confesses how miserable his life is and voila! He's put into a state of ecstasy, which becomes permanent when the hypnotist dies in mid-session before giving Peter a hypnotic suggestion. Life immediately improves, first with his starting to date the waitress Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) and secondly with his attitude toward life and his job changing so much that he is promoted by the consultants hired to downsize the place. When Peter finds out his best friends will be fired, they plant a virus in the account system to embezzle a fraction of a cent of each of its financial operations into his account. But they make a mistake in the software and instead of decimals, they steal a huge amount of money. Their attempts to fix the error are hilarious, so much so that many of this film's lines remain memes for office life today...so if you could watch it, that'd be greeeeeaaaaat.

In this Billy Wilder comedy, Jack Lemmon is just a poor schmo trying to rise in his company, in an office that is a virtual sea of desks topped with noisy typewriters, who's duped into allowing upper management to use his apartment for trysts, kicking him out with nowhere to go. When he meets Shirley Maclaine, the elevator girl at his office building, who's being led on by his boss, complications ensue, and a romance that's based solidly on real friendship follows.

Ten years after World War II ended, Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) is a happily married man with three children who commutes each day from Connecticut to Manhattan, where he works in public relations. During his long daily commute, he thinks about the war, especially the men he killed, and Maria, the Italian girlfriend he left behind. Soon enough, he moves up from a job in a small firm (replete with gray filing cabinets and vintage typewriters) to a TV network with glamorous wood-paneled offices. The network director immediately befriends him, including him in after-hours socializing, putting Tom in the situation of having to choose between starring in his company or remaining a devoted family man but not getting far in his career. And as if there weren't enough things thrown into the balance, when Tom discovers that Maria gave birth to his son after he left Italy, he decides to tell his wife (Jennifer Jones) and ensure that the boy is cared for. And then, not surprisingly, his worlds collide.

After a long vacation, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) returns to New York for a party at the top of his skyscraper, which he's thrilled to find almost completed except for one thing: his wiring specifications have not been followed. In the midst of the celebration, the building begins short circuiting, then catches fire. Fire Chief Michael O'Halleran (Steve McQueen) realizes the building is too tall to put the fire out from the ground, so a terrifying series of daring rescues ensues.

Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a hardworking secretary who's struggling to get ahead in New York City. When her boss (Sigourney Weaver) steals her idea, she's initially floored, but then her boss breaks her leg skiing, providing a chance not only for revenge but a move up the corporate ladder. Pretending she's her boss, Tess teams up with an investment broker (Harrison Ford) to close a big deal, and winds up falling in love with him. Needless to say, the situation becomes even more complicated when her boss recovers and returns to work. Shoulder pads, big hair, cubicles and dull gray spaces abound as the two fight it out along the glass ceiling.

David and Linda Howard are yuppies in Los Angeles who are fed up with their lifestyle. He works in advertising agency and she’s in retailing. When David fails to get promoted and is instead offered a transfer to the firm's New York office, he insults his boss and is fired, then convinces Linda to quit her job too. They sell their house, liquidate their assets and take off in a Winnebago. But their search for meaning goes awry. After losing their nest egg and being forced to live in a trailer park and take dead-end jobs, they decide they want their old lifestyle back, so they take off for New York so David can beg for his old job back.