Unemployment Movies

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get...

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...

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...

Tom is a perfect macho, whose prejudices are challenged when he loses his job, his apartment and his girlfriend and has to move in into a house with...

A married woman unsuccessfully tries to find a job in order to provide a better life to her son.

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...

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

Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble....

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

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

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...

A smug executive enjoys the perfect life - until he loses his job, and finds himself working at a burger joint. Now he's falling behind on his bills,...

Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota community to build a better future in the face of...

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...

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...

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

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

It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.