Unemployment Movies

Ainhoa is 8 years old and has left home with her school bag, a Playmobil figure and a secret plan.

A man left the city to live in the countryside. One day, he goes fishing and catches a strange sack. Soon afterwards, he is chased by a mystery man wi...

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the...

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

As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situation could be Frank's way out.

Youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many sub-Saharan African countries, including Uganda, Kenneth is a young Ugandan writer who has this o...

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 family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

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

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...

"Año cero" is about the well-educated, well-to-do middle-class man, Miguel who loses his job. Now he finds himself without direction, credentials or l...

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, mischievou...

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...

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 a...

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 bene...

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 '...

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...

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...