Unemployment Movies

A smug executive enjoys the perfect life - until he loses his job, and finds himself working at a burger joint. Now he's falling behind on his bills,...

Follow-up to Roger & Me.

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a...

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When...

Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours...

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...

Taking the demise of a textile factory in Austria’s Waldviertel region as its starting point, with the antiquated manufacturing plant initially...

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the...

In 2020, the USA experienced a multiple catastrophe: No other country in the world was hit so badly by the coronavirus pandemic, the economic slump...

In a Swedish industrial community people are forced into unemployment to turn a iron-works company's negative profitability trend. Martin...

David Cole is a twenty-something man trying to make ends meet. His wannabe actor roommate Steve isn't making things any easier for him. But when a...

With the energy of the dying, those in power apply themselves to reasserting the value of work – with force, if need be. But more and more...

This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960’s, better known as Manos a la Obra (or...

About how the social environment affects Mazhar's consciousness/inner world and his effort to get rid of the stuckness he is in.

After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who...