Unemployment Movies

  • 1997
    Working for the Enemy

    Working for the Enemy

    Working for the Enemy

    01997HD

    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...

    Working for the Enemy
  • 2001
    The Idle Ones

    The Idle Ones

    The Idle Ones

    5.92001HD

    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 bec...

    The Idle Ones
  • 2018
    Blister

    Blister

    Blister

    02018HD

    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.

    Blister
  • 1984
    Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου

    Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου

    Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου

    81984HD

    Τι έχουν να δουν τα μάτια μου
  • 1999
    Köyhät, nöyrät ja häpeämättömät

    Köyhät, nöyrät ja häpeämättömät

    Köyhät, nöyrät ja häpeämättömät

    01999HD

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

    Köyhät, nöyrät ja häpeämättömät
  • 2024
    Boomerang

    Boomerang

    Boomerang

    02024HD

    Boomerang
  • 1971
    Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

    Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

    Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

    01971HD

    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...

    Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
  • 2016
    Inglory

    Inglory

    Inglory

    02016HD

    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...

    Inglory
  • 2016
    Año cero

    Año cero

    Año cero

    4.72016HD

    "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...

    Año cero
  • 1939
    The Case of Charlie Gordon

    The Case of Charlie Gordon

    The Case of Charlie Gordon

    01939HD

    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 Case of Charlie Gordon
  • 1930
    Listen To Some Words of Wisdom

    Listen To Some Words of Wisdom

    Listen To Some Words of Wisdom

    01930HD

    Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

    Listen To Some Words of Wisdom
  • 2018
    Non

    Non

    Non

    02018HD

    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...

    Non
  • 1934
    Aus der Tiefe empor

    Aus der Tiefe empor

    Aus der Tiefe empor

    01934HD

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

    Aus der Tiefe empor
  • 1988
    Det är långt till New York

    Det är långt till New York

    Det är långt till New York

    01988HD

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

    Det är långt till New York
  • 2024
    Outsourcing Greenville

    Outsourcing Greenville

    Outsourcing Greenville

    02024HD

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

    Outsourcing Greenville