Unemployment Movies

Greece is in crisis. But the economic crisis is not the only one. An asylum crisis has gripped the country at this time of severe austerity. And it hi...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late '...

Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours before get...

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

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 di...

Though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, the fallout continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom w...

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...

Pocho Huerta is an unemployed stuntman waiting for his students to come to class, until he realizes that no one will come because he forgot to promote...

David Cole is a twenty-something man trying to make ends meet. His wannabe actor roommate Steve isn't making things any easier for him. But when a nas...

"The Last One Put Out the Light" - The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are out of work. The way out spells - Norway. Because ov...

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

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.

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

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

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 workers hav...

The UCS struggle is a campaign film supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon for w...

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

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.