Unemployment Movies

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.

Bill Moyers tells the story of several hardworking Milwaukee families struggling with low-paying jobs after previous employers downsized their...

An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued...

A hardworking woman has an argument with her drunk and unemployed husband.

Mariusz lives in a cramped apartment in an old tenement with his mother, who suffers from depression and has not left the house for two years. The...

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

the story of a young boy who must go to the store by himself for the first time. Things get complicated when the 140 Dram his mother gave him for...

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

Four friends have their interpersonal and professional lives fall apart across a day of smoking weed.

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

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in the mining village of Almaden in southern Spain....

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

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...

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...

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...

Peter is in his early forties and until recently he worked in a factory, but after Slovenia's integration into the European Union, the factory closed...

This experimental documentary circulates around interviews with four veterans who worked all their lives in analogue (=celluloid) film laboratories...

Outsourcing Greenville is the story of what happened when the world's largest refrigerator plant outsourced to Mexico leaving 1/4th of Greenville,...