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Kanopy
79
73
7.2
/5182/
74
/147/
69
/118/
3.8
/7169/
100
/45/
78
/83/
85
/12/

Ilo Ilo (2013)
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
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Starz
72
6.5
/18218/
72
/640/
70
/336/
3.4
/20521/
72
/93/
87
/2240/
55
/26/
cc age 16+

Baby Boy (2001)
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.
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MUBI
70
6.4
/5640/
67
/286/
64
/242/
3.6
/19043/
82
/51/
58
/19/
71
/15/

Nocturama (2016)
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
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The Roku Channel
69
7.0
/4394/
63
/48/
62
/36/
3.3
/1579/
86
/94/
72
/386/
72
/31/
cc age 16+

Quinceañera (2006)
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
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Criterion Channel
82
68
7.6
/4729/
77
/184/
75
/130/
4.0
/39243/
100
/6/
88
/14/

Taipei Story (1985)
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
poster
72
58
7.1
/2546/
68
/88/
68
/67/
3.6
/3169/
83
/12/

Ayka (2018)
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
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Kanopy
71
58
6.6
/3954/
67
/88/
61
/103/
3.6
/8946/
88
/8/
74
/22/

Loulou (1980)
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
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FilmBox+
56
6.3
/133035/
69
/11791/
63
/4560/
2.9
/98997/
55
/214/
40
/717/
56
/44/
cc age 14+

The Commuter (2018)
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
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The Roku Channel
54
5.8
/2461/
61
/91/
56
/189/
3.0
/2030/
50
/14/
34
/40/
52
/5/

My Piece of the Pie (2011)
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
poster
68
53
6.6
/1739/
69
/192/
70
/381/
3.5
/3821/

The Invisibles (2019)
Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
poster
55
53
5.5
/5526/
60
/319/
55
/144/
2.9
/14541/
70
/10/
42
/41/
49
/4/

Suburban Gothic (2014)
An awkward, unemployed man who can talk to the dead teams up with a rebellious bartender to find the vengeful ghost that's been terrorizing their town.
poster
75
51
7.2
/1688/
76
/73/
74
/49/
4.0
/17657/

My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.
poster
56
49
5.8
/2498/
60
/309/
56
/461/
2.6
/2663/

Back to Mom's (2016)
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
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Kanopy
67
46
6.6
/1091/
71
/69/
63
/45/
3.6
/8377/
86
/7/
62
/5/
55
/6/

Hard Labor (2011)
After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.
poster
60
44
5.9
/2179/
58
/102/
58
/150/
3.3
/2861/

The Big Night (2012)
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
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Amazon Prime Video
43
5.4
/1276/
53
/83/
45
/19/
2.8
/1317/
10
/10/
54
/38/
37
/6/
cc age 15+

Lazy Susan (2020)
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family who lazily skated through life with their begrudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she’s middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. She finally decides to take charge and turn things around, but never having done anything herself before, the struggle is real (and hilarious) as Susan becomes the woman she always wanted to be, all on her own.
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Hoopla
64
43
6.4
/2018/
66
/162/
61
/188/
3.3
/1190/

Odd Job (2016)
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
poster
69
24
6.8
/259/
72
/29/
70
/30/
3.4
/733/

A Place in the Sun (2019)
Made on a shoestring budget, François Ruffin and Gilles Perret’s investigative documentary has the adventurous spirit of a road movie. Intimate and sometimes humorous, encounters with yellow vest protestors pierce through reports of violence and destruction, revealing a collective desire for equity.
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fuboTV
50
23
4.0
/1274/
67
/80/
52
/38/
2.8
/334/
35
/24/

Chocolate City (2015)
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
poster
62
19
6.6
/701/
57
/12/
58
/36/
3.4
/231/

Suzy Q (1999)
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
poster
68
19
6.4
/193/
68
/17/
70
/29/
3.5
/317/

Paper Flags (2019)
He is 30 and just got out of jail after 12 years of detention. She is almost 24 and has a simple life away from the city. One day, he comes to her and she let him stay with her. That's complicated when your older brother needs to get back to a normal life. Between tenderness and bursts of laughter, his anger is sometimes out of control. However, she wants to help him. As for him, he wants to meet with his sister again.
poster
69
18
7.6
/774/
60
/10/
73
/16/
3.5
/470/

Dizzy Doctors (1937)
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
poster
54
18
5.2
/239/
56
/15/
51
/62/
2.9
/457/

Qui c'est les plus forts ? (2015)
Samantha, who works in a chicken factory in Saint-Étienne, loses her job. She lives with her best-friend Céline. She is also her little sister Kim's guardian and must find another job quickly or run the risk of losing her sister. She meets Paul, a lawyer who would like to raise a child with his partner. As a result, he asks Samantha if she would like to be hired as his surrogate.
poster
63
16
6.6
/664/
62
/18/
62
/16/
3.4
/589/
57
/6/

The Proud Valley (1940)
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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Hoopla
60
13
6.0
/407/
62
/19/
55
/22/
3.3
/212/

I Am a Soldier (2015)
A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
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The Roku Channel
62
11
5.5
/369/
60
/18/
61
/17/
76
/3/

The Great & The Small (2016)
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.
poster
62
9
6.1
/349/
63
/3/
58
/10/
3.3
/263/

One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
poster
?
4.0
/67/
30
/2/
47
/3/

The Dwarf and the 7 Snow Whites (1970)
Thanasis (Nikos Rizos) arrives in Athens and gets a job at the shop where the "The 7 Snowmen" band appears, in which a friend (Elsa Rizou) of a friend of his (Athenodoros Prossalis) participates. He will fall in love with the head of the band (Despina Stylianopoulou), and after two misunderstandings they will finally get married.
poster
?
4.7
/47/
23
/3/
60
/2/

Πιάσαμε την καλή (1955)
A jobless and kind countryman moves to Athens, only to lose yet another job. However, the lottery ticket in his hand could be the solution to his chronic problems. Will now the love of his life change her mind and reciprocate his feelings?
poster
69
?
7.0
/13/
3.4
/327/

Mr. Nanny (2013)
A spoof on many popular American comedies, centered around cross-dressing.
poster
?
6.4
/21/

Pardon Our Nerve (1939)
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
poster
61
?
6.8
/108/
40
/4/
68
/6/
3.5
/477/

Hommage (2022)
A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.
poster
?
5.3
/39/

Frisco Waterfront (1935)
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
poster
57
?
5.9
/336/
53
/12/
60
/15/

The Most Wanted Man (1953)
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a gun inside, and is arrested as Public Enemy No. 1. Chaos erupts as both the police and the mob pursue him.
poster
?
6.3
/97/
58
/4/

The Best Man Wins (1935)
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
poster
60
?
6.9
/177/
50
/5/
57
/10/

Touched in the Head (1974)
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
poster
69
?
6.0
/134/
80
/2/

Radio City Revels (1938)
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
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?
3.7
/27/
22
/4/
30
/2/

Groom with tassels (1969)
Kitsos lives a quiet life in Gastouni, grabbing his sheep. But the pressure of his father and his beloved Asteros forces him to become a merchant by turning to nearby villages without success. Desperate father sends him to Athens where everything is so different from the village. Kitsos goes to the house of the uncle, Pericles. There he discovers that Ritsa, Pericles's daughter, has relation with an employee, Vassilakis. Pericles wants to marry Ritsa with Parmenion, but Kitsos decides to help the lovers.
poster
57
?
5.9
/228/
53
/3/
59
/7/

Οι Επικίνδυνοι (1983)
Panos comes to Athens in search for a better life. He is fed up with life in the countryside, unemployment and the whole situation with his family. He hooks up with a bunch of ambitious- but unemployed- teenagers. One night at a disco, Panos beats up a guy who is asking for trouble. He leaves the club along with his friends. The other guy cannot calm down without taking revenge so he takes his friends and they beat up Panos & co. The following night, Panos rapes the guys sister. Afterwards he apologises and they start a relationship. She gets fired from the super market where she works for helping Panos steal. Panos cannot live in misery anymore and steals a yoghurt factory with the help of his friends. The ending is tragic...
poster
61
?
6.2
/145/
43
/3/
80
/3/

The Night of Bakiza and Zaghloul’s Arrest (1988)
Bekiza al-Darmalli and the daughter of her ex-husband Zaghloul al-Ashmawi are forced to live together in a room on the roof. They meet a mysterious foreigner and they go into chases and get involved in bizarre murders.
poster
51
?
4.7
/549/
55
/30/
53
/18/

Buffering (2011)
Seb and Aaron have overspent and built up debts on their credit card. Aaron decides to take matters into his own hands and secretly films their sex life to broadcast online. The money pours in until he gets caught! Realising that the scheme could sort their financial problems, Seb agrees to allow things to continue until they are back in the black. When their friend Jem arrives and suggests a third party might help them make even more cash, things start to get a little tricky....
poster
55
?
5.2
/395/
44
/7/
70
/3/

Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
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?
3.8
/33/

Two Clever Fools (1971)
Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter who is in love with an Athenian singer. Will they make her laugh again? Above all, can they stop a sinister scheme behind the sheikh's back?
poster
59
?
6.1
/259/
50
/6/
67
/3/

The Ice Dragon (2012)
An adventure about Mick, aged 11, and his quest for a new home. Mick runs away on an ice dragon, owns a cat factory, befriends brothers Bengt and Bertil, falls in love for the first time and eventually finds his way home.
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DocAlliance Films
59
?
6.5
/185/
61
/14/
53
/11/

The Way Out (2014)
The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap," which is racism, the society's prejudices, exclusion from opportunities to obtain legal work, the lack of necessary qualifications, difficult communication with officials, debts and the miserable life conditions connected with the environment, lifestyle and traditional values of their ethnicity. David wants to protect his family, even at the expense of committing a crime. But Zaneta finds inner strength to defy the unfavorable situation in a different way. Will they overcome the existential problems that start to take apart their relationship? Is it worthwhile for them to continue to Honor their own values and family traditions? And will their "way out" be only another "escape" for them, or a promise to change their lives?
poster
64
?
6.1
/1085/
65
/56/
63
/79/
3.3
/1016/

For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.
poster
64
?
6.4
/1100/
64
/52/
61
/123/
3.4
/1354/

Faultless (2016)
Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.


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