Unemployment Movies

A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and...

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

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

Three friends reunite in Athens after struggling abroad. They think of a business idea but quickly realise that not everything goes as planned. When...

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

An unemployed man desperate for work wanders around St John's, Newfoundland searching for a job.

Sylvain, an Afghan veteran living off of petty crime, crosses paths with Nathalie, an upper-class CEO struggling to keep her lawnmower company afloat.

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian suburbs. Samia, Corinne, Thierry, Zuleika must...

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...

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

The Idle Ones is a profile of contemporary affairs - somewhere on the edge of Europe - in a place where unemployment for some young people is fast...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In a Swedish industrial community people are forced into unemployment to turn a iron-works company's negative profitability trend. Martin...