Unemployment Movies

A young man who lives nearby an airport finds himself in trouble upon meeting a mysterious stranger.

After losing his job in Mumbai, Tashi is compelled to return to his village in the remote interiors of Arunachal Pradesh. Waiting for news of any new...

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

In their search for work, a group of workers face familiar frustrations. Cedrón raises his own conflicts and tries to understand their cause....

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...

Ian is an aspiring autistic photographer who struggles with a painful memory and unemployment, following the loss of his support worker Janet.

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the...

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...

Follow-up to Roger & Me.

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...

A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles...

Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

During the labour reforms of 2016, in a small French town, the Radial company closes its doors after a bitter strike. Jeansé, Juliette, Bruno,...