10 Inspiring Movies to Watch during Your Job Search

Is the hunt for your new career getting you down? Watch these movies and get back in the job seeking saddle with renewed confidence and the can-do attitude it takes to get the position you deserve!

“Pursuit of Happyness” (2006) – Chris Gardner (Will Smith) has big dreams for him and his family. Chris earns an opportunity to be a stock broker, but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by, but Chris is adamant that they’ll make it.

“Rudy” (1993) – Rudy (Sean Astin) has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

“Working Girl” (1988) – Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainess boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker (Harrison Ford) that will either take her straight to the top – or finish off her career for good.

“A League of their Own” (1992) – Dottie Henson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) are sisters who work on the family farm. Kit wants to play baseball in the new All American Pro Girls League, but Dottie is drafted instead. Dottie refuses to play unless Kit can come along. The team manager is a drunk, has been baseball player named Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), but after a lot of emotional ups and downs, the team makes it to the playoffs.

“Legally Blonde” (2001) – Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is president of her California sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the big man on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But Warner (Matthew Davis) needs someone to fit into his East-Coast blue blood family to help him become a senator someday. So, when Warner heads off to Harvard Law and reunites with an old brunette sweetheart from prep school, Elle does the impossible and is accepted to Harvard Law, determined to win him back. Elle begins to use her strengths to her advantage and teaches everyone that there is a really smart girl under all that blonde.

“Jerry Maguire” (1996) – When a sports agent (Tom Cruise) has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with only one client, a difficult and egotistical football player (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who refuses to sign a contract until he gets the big coin – jeopardizing both of their livelihoods.

“The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) –Simple, naive recent journalism grad Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is hired to work as the second assistant of Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the ruthless and merciless editor of a famous fashion magazine in New York City. Andrea dreams of being a journalist and tries to treat the job as a temporary professional challenge. To please her picky boss, Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life, but eventually making her successful in her position.

“Any Given Sunday” (1999) – An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become a danger to himself and to his teammates. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out.

“The Rainmaker” (1997) – Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) is a young attorney who is the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he fights injustice and the insurance company, all while falling in love with a battered young married woman (Claire Danes) during the process.

“The Cutting Edge” (1992) – NHL prospect Doug (D.B. Sweeney) is injured which leaves him unable to play professionally. Pairs ice-skater Kate (Moira Kelly) is a talented, but spoiled and ill–tempered figure skater who no one will pair up with. As a last result, Kate's coach brings in Doug as a potential partner. Kate tries to antagonize Doug into leaving, but he stays and actually begins to like figure skating. The pair undergoes grueling, rigorous training to get to the Olympics and a possible gold medal...