Unemployment Movies

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

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

Pocho Huerta is an unemployed stuntman waiting for his students to come to class, until he realizes that no one will come because he forgot to...

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

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...

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

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

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

Greece is in crisis. But the economic crisis is not the only one. An asylum crisis has gripped the country at this time of severe austerity. And it...

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

When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your homeland, and as time goes on, this never goes beyond...