Unemployment Movies

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get...

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank...

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and...

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits...

A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his...

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to...

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters...

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Compulsive gambler Oz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, with his roommate, Ivy-League dropout Ish. Crippled by an unspoken fear of...

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...