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 yea...

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Em...

A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles ap...

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

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...

"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...

Sean McAllister's bleak, extraordinarily intimate film offers an insight into the lives of 35 year old Kevin, who hasn't worked in 18 years, and his 1...

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 milk...

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...

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

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...

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

Marseille. The director of a company offers a promotion to Francois (Michel Creton) if he accepts to help him fire all the staff from his office. If h...

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

Unemployment at an early age and the problems that arise from it.

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

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