Apartment

If it's not enough that Wall*E has generational similarities to Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, it appears their movies move at a similar pace.

Start Wall*E at the same time as The Apartment, and listen to the audio on one while watching the other. It's not exactly The Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon, but they do have some similarities:
* Credits are a similar length, and the music beats match well with the credit dissolves either way.
* Both then move on to their respective cityscapes
* Wall*E and C.C. Baxter both end their work days at about the same time (although C.C. doesn't go home right away)
* They enter their domiciles (the BnL truck and the titular apartment) almost simultaneously.

The two don't match quite so well up after that, though. They do both watch old movies that night, head into work the next morning, and then their adventures begin. They both eventually have to confront their corrupt organizations, and if Wall*E's triumph is more complete Baxter's is still sufficient. Plus they both get their girl by the end.

Lemmon (born 1925) and Maclaine (1934) are both Silent Generation, and bear the brunt of the difficulties in the film. The executives who take advantage of them are all core G.I. Generation (well, the actors portraying them are, anyway) - at one point, they all appear in Baxter's office to push for "teamwork ... all for one and one for all." There seems to be no mention of the war, though, even though it ended only 15 years before.  Perhaps it would have been gratuitous, perhaps Wilder was in pursuit of timelessness.

Wilder (1906) was also G.I. - at least using American dates (he was born in what is now Poland), which may be why it's mostly a Hero story: The good guy wins, but sacrifice is required. (Hard to say that teamwork is involved, though.) Sheldrake may be damned, and the happy couple doomed, but neither is a foregone conclusion.