Unemployment Movies

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...

The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live...

The only cure of being jobelessness, unhappy and hopelessness is friendship, life is beautiful together.

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...

Ali, an honest and honorable man, moves to Istanbul when he is transferred there. He moves in with his sister Hacer and brother-in-law Yakup. Yakup's...

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the...

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?

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

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

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...

An angry and unemployed young man meets a former school rival of his and challenges him to a game of pool.

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the...

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract...

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it...

A man hides his job from his wife. His wife wants to find out the truth, but it creates bigger problems for him. A disaster happens.

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

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

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless...