10 Movies That Ought to Have a Villain But Don't

A recent movie that has neither had the love nor exposure it deserves, Joachim Back's Corner Office remains something of a hidden gem for those of us who still enjoy white-collar malaise. 

Our story is a chapter in the life of pencil pusher Orson (Jon Hamm), beginning with the commencement of his latest job in a thoroughly grey office, and ending with his firing. After a slow burn in and a few misunderstandings between himself and his co-workers, Orson discovers a lush, spacious and private office with 1970s decor and all the mod cons any self-respecting office worker could ever need. This becomes Orson's go-to place to escape his colleagues and get some serious work done. There's only one problem - the office is not an office, but a mental state produced by a mind fractured on years of tedium, and when Orson 'goes there' he's actually standing catatonic in the corridor, staring at the wall.

A truly Kafkan absurdist drama, the enemy of Corner Office is not any one person but the limits and constraints of bureaucracy and society. Despite doing everything they can to keep Orson from his happy-place corner office, his colleagues are just run-of-the-mill office workers, trying to get on with their day without having to deal with whatever strangeness the big guy brings to the mix.