Labor Day is one of those holidays for which it is especially difficult to build a comfortable, celebratory, collection of watching. It is very close to the end of summer/back to school celebration, and also lacking in a dearth of movies taking place during or about the holiday.

• 9 to 5 (1980) : this is more thematic than actually aligned with the holiday, but sometimes that is just how things have to be
• Humongous (1982) : labor day weekend vacationers being stalked by a slasher/monster
• Dirty Dancing (1987) : tells the tale of an entire summer adventure, but does actually culminate on Labor Day