Movies and TvShows featuring "asking-for-a-raise" theme.

When his teenage son is wrongfully accused of drug distribution and faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence, a father makes a deal with the DEA to work as an undercover informant and bring down a drug cartel. As he infiltrates the dangerous world of drugs, he risks everything to save his son.

In 1912 England, a mysterious inspector arrives at a family dinner party and starts questioning the guests as he investigates their involvement in a suicide. As the evening unfolds, secrets are revealed and the family's hidden guilt begins to unravel.

Carrie Watts is an elderly woman who longs to escape the control of her daughter-in-law and return to her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas. With the help of a kind stranger, she sets out on a bus trip to Bountiful, reliving memories of her past along the way. As she arrives at her childhood home, she finds it abandoned and in ruins. Despite this, she finds solace in the journey and the memories it brings back.

Edge of Doom is a film noir crime drama that follows a man's descent into darkness as he deals with his crisis of conscience after being falsely accused of murder. Set in a tenement building, the story revolves around his interactions with various characters, including a priest, a widow, and a police detective, as he battles poverty and police harassment.

Elf-Man is a comedy about an elf who must save Christmas when Santa Claus falls ill. With the help of a superhero milk-shake scientist, the elf embarks on a journey to deliver presents and spread holiday cheer. Along the way, they encounter a grandmother with a magical walking stick, a fruit-cake wielding superhero, and a Christmas carol singing female TV news reporter. Will they be able to save Christmas in time?

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Meet the Bride

Ned Elliott, a young clerk, is engaged to be married. His salary is not large enough to support a wife and he asks his employer for a "raise," which is refused. The same thing occurs several times, and with each refusal Ned postpones his marriage. In despair he concocts a scheme to make his employer give him the coveted "raise." He takes a bright young maid who works at his boarding house into his confidence. Knowing that Mr. Hadley, his employer, is a flirt, and that Mrs. Hadley is extremely jealous, Ned plans to have Mary, the maid, come to Hadley's office and declare herself his (Hadley's) wife. Ned arranges it so that Mrs. Hadley arrives on the scene at the same time. A series of most laughable incidents follow Mary's entrance in Hadley's office, ending with Ned getting his "raise." But the raise is such that, well, it would spoil the splendid finish of the story to tell it.

Paul is an unmarried middle-aged man who runs an insurance company in which his employee, Manolis Petichakis, presents his sister Eve for the post of secretary. Paul's friend, Tasos, convinces him to respond to a sentimental ad. Finally, he makes an appointment with a woman signing "The Rose of Isfahan". But the appointment evolves into a blaze..