Unemployment Movies

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to...

The Show Must Go On is a personal journey behind the scenes that confronts the epidemic of mental health issues in the Australian entertainment...

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...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based...

In a rainy Brazilian city, an amnesic man is taken in by a lonely clickworker at a course for people with a strange neurological syndrome. After...

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting...

„Alone against the mob? Solo against the jobcentre? Classic suicide mission.” That much Mr Berger knows, working at the jobcentre phone...

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...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

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

Behind the facade of a beautiful urban home, a combination of complacency and bad investments has left power couple Ben and Gail disconnected,...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

Stine is eighteen and has finished school. Her parents have are divorced, and the father has a new wife. Stine is not so anxious finding a regular...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips...

Raghuvaran, who is unemployed for years, gets his dream job but a powerful rival is keen to put him down. Can he take on his adversary?

Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.

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

In this short follow-up to "Roger & Me," Michael Moore revisits Flint, Michigan to reconnect with residents impacted by General Motors’ mass...