Movies: Unemployment

David is depressed and has lost his job. Joana works all day and takes care of their children, Rafael and Maria, when she gets home. David has lost hope, lost all motivation. Joana has to hold on, she has to be patient. But some time has passed... an...

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 years in the same factory, and finds himself awaiting for the resolution of the court on the applicatio...

Julien, an actor struggling to make ends meet, is nervously preparing for auditions. But in the final stretch before the big leap, Julien is with his brother at Ikea. Mila, also an actress, a little more established in her career, is also going to au...

Follow-up to Roger & Me....

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

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. Their prospective employer remains a mystery. With limited information, they’re launched into a hiring proce...

Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that hi...

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Youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many sub-Saharan African countries, including Uganda, Kenneth is a young Ugandan writer who has this one chance to get a job that will enable him to pay off a gangster loan shark (Moses) but his day doe...

Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending adulthood. The film follows Mark, Jason, and Flora, as they realistically attempt to pull themselves out...

In an office, a row of desks, with people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their supervisors. At stake: their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide by the same rigid procedure and bureaucracy but each has th...

Raimundo is an amateur wrestler who finds himself unemployed and without a fixed income when faced with a proposal to give up the fight, entering a dilemma that divides him between the glory of a possible career or the love of his son....

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A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the two Japaneese businessmen with the apparent intentions to build a factory there....

During the labour reforms of 2016, in a small French town, the Radial company closes its doors after a bitter strike. Jeansé, Juliette, Bruno, Christine and Pierre meet to ‘celebrate’ their insulting redundancy pay-off. On the way home, Bruno has a v...

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

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers....

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

A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another couple....

Davor is an IT technician who sees the solution to his troubles in going to Canada. On the same day he receives an email that his work visa has been approved, Lana happens to see it too. While he is worrying about how to tell her he’s going to Canada...