Unemployment Movies

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the...

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

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in the mining village of Almaden in southern Spain....

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

An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for...

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out differently. It's not just because the divorced dad...

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

Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending...

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...

A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.

Ten French job seekers show up for a two-day recruitment session knowing only that they’re vying for a sales position in the insurance field....

The Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest), located between Amstelveen and Schiphol, was constructed during the years of economic crisis. In 1934,...

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.

A married woman unsuccessfully tries to find a job in order to provide a better life to her son.

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

Images and numbers illustrate the domestic political measures taken after the Nazis came to power to eliminate unemployment.

Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in a lamp factory. There is brazen Susie,...