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Amazon Prime Video
89
8.2
/190076/
80
/2621/
82
/2555/
4.3
/245661/
99
/67/
94
/2155/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.5
/282032/
82
/4436/
82
/3930/
4.3
/246885/
98
/113/
95
/1798/
96
/4/
cc age 6+

Modern Times (1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
poster
Kanopy
86
8.2
/40990/
80
/652/
78
/465/
4.3
/59998/
98
/82/
93
/368/

Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. His wife, Sarbojaya, looks after their rebellious daughter, Durga, and young son, Apu. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life.
poster
83
IMDb 80
7.6
/7847/
76
/299/
77
/88/
4.2
/83298/
100
/97/
86
/21/

No Other Choice (2025)
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/10364/
74
/156/
76
/193/
4.0
/17580/
100
/11/
90
/77/

Drifting Clouds (1996)
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.9
/38842/
76
/792/
74
/462/
4.0
/20955/
93
/45/
95
/1698/
77
/20/
cc age 17+

Once Were Warriors (1994)
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
poster
81
7.3
/197446/
72
/7360/
71
/3202/
3.8
/501674/
93
/440/
82
/313/
87
/57/
cc age 15+

Nomadland (2021)
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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Fandor
80
7.3
/5221/
71
/89/
69
/141/
3.7
/4293/
100
/11/
91
/77/

Raining Stones (1993)
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/16828/
72
/273/
71
/324/
3.9
/31080/
90
/31/
83
/161/
76
/19/

Rosetta (1999)
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
poster
78
7.4
/7811/
70
/211/
72
/210/
3.7
/7983/
91
/34/
85
/117/
74
/14/

Take My Eyes (2003)
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/24338/
73
/256/
70
/251/
3.9
/26887/
87
/46/
82
/243/
84
/18/

Distant (2002)
A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.
poster
77
7.0
/27638/
70
/632/
67
/376/
3.6
/21808/
95
/117/
76
/290/
79
/25/

Red Rock West (1993)
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
poster
77
7.5
/28117/
73
/599/
71
/308/
3.8
/19822/
100
/31/
79
/782/
70
/16/
cc age 14+

Roger & Me (1989)
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
poster
76
7.4
/24729/
70
/396/
68
/273/
3.9
/13279/
89
/103/
87
/1187/
71
/32/

Paradise Now (2005)
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/51944/
69
/1295/
69
/981/
3.9
/52512/
96
/182/
77
/415/
89
/38/

Two Days, One Night (2014)
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
poster
76
7.2
/118530/
72
/2291/
69
/1735/
3.7
/78917/
96
/55/
79
/3083/
75
/31/
cc age 15+

The Full Monty (1997)
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
poster
75
6.7
/35619/
71
/602/
65
/368/
3.5
/17381/
91
/44/
75
/653/
66
/11/
cc age 14+

L.A. Story (1991)
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
poster
Hoopla
74
6.8
/7103/
66
/263/
65
/357/
3.5
/8441/
92
/64/
61
/21/
74
/19/

The Measure of a Man (2015)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
poster
Kanopy
73
6.6
/2843/
63
/152/
66
/118/
3.5
/10517/
95
/55/
79
/12/
70
/15/

Plan 75 (2022)
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
73
7.6
/10473/
72
/278/
73
/347/
3.8
/21157/
87
/627/

A Dog's Life (1918)
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
poster
75
68
7.3
/8881/
73
/159/
69
/202/
3.7
/4108/
80
/5/
82
/123/

The Ax (2005)
Bruno is a former paper mill worker who has been unemployed for three years. Concluding that there is too much competition in his line of work, he decides to eliminate his competition permanently.
poster
68
7.1
/31936/
72
/812/
66
/630/
3.5
/13197/
71
/143/
74
/1059/
62
/31/

Micmacs (2009)
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
poster
Kanopy
73
67
7.0
/6692/
67
/145/
69
/115/
3.8
/5123/
84
/32/
76
/133/

Import/Export (2007)
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
poster
67
6.9
/1830/
69
/32/
68
/59/
3.7
/1923/
68
/25/
76
/5/

Marius and Jeannette (1997)
Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.
poster
66
7.4
/46982/
74
/759/
71
/433/
3.5
/34550/
47
/105/
88
/3225/
45
/32/
cc age 16+

Life as a House (2001)
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
poster
65
6.7
/5066/
69
/133/
63
/73/
3.4
/2290/
42
/19/
71
/60/

The Van (1996)
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.6
/15507/
65
/261/
61
/206/
3.2
/5807/
74
/118/
62
/641/
71
/25/

Factotum (2005)
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
poster
65
6.1
/6167/
60
/449/
60
/162/
3.1
/5409/
87
/23/
72
/81/
59
/9/

Advantageous (2015)
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
poster
64
6.6
/5681/
62
/205/
62
/87/
3.3
/2462/
77
/62/
62
/65/
62
/12/

The Daughter (2015)
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
poster
61
5.7
/2731/
56
/55/
56
/47/
3.4
/2954/
75
/8/
51
/79/

Flesh (1968)
A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs and decadence.
poster
60
6.7
/32713/
66
/774/
64
/455/
3.2
/6209/
38
/13/
61
/1880/

Big Nothing (2006)
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.
poster
62
59
6.4
/18882/
68
/795/
63
/320/
3.2
/13687/
55
/26/

New Kids Turbo (2010)
Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
6.8
/70398/
66
/1057/
64
/735/
3.1
/14338/
48
/97/
55
/3195/
56
/24/
cc age 18+

Harsh Times (2005)
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
6.3
/41594/
66
/2166/
63
/1166/
2.9
/21346/
65
/40/
45
/306/
44
/11/

13 Sins (2014)
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
poster
72
58
7.1
/3053/
68
/76/
65
/42/
3.6
/2304/
84
/832/

Malcolm (1986)
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
poster
Sun Nxt
78
58
7.9
/9306/
77
/172/
75
/71/
4.0
/9765/
81
/8/

Velaiyilla Pattathari (2014)
Raghuvaran, who is unemployed for years, gets his dream job but a powerful rival is keen to put him down. Can he take on his adversary?
poster
74
57
7.0
/3607/
70
/61/
67
/52/
3.4
/897/
91
/11/
81
/35/

Tough Enough (2006)
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
poster
82
56
8.1
/2058/
70
/27/
71
/35/
4.0
/2679/
100
/7/
93
/14/

The Adversary (1970)
Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
poster
67
56
6.9
/3430/
66
/93/
66
/315/
3.5
/2437/
66
/52/

A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
poster
64
54
6.7
/4222/
69
/81/
67
/70/
3.4
/2008/
51
/49/
66
/43/

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
poster
The Roku Channel
54
5.8
/2455/
61
/90/
56
/189/
3.0
/1970/
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
Kanopy
54
6.3
/14759/
66
/341/
60
/208/
3.0
/6346/
39
/23/
46
/193/
48
/9/

Gung Ho (1986)
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
poster
54
6.2
/161129/
65
/4533/
62
/2570/
2.9
/92156/
30
/132/
49
/17805/
47
/33/
cc age 14+

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
poster
Kanopy
75
53
7.1
/2612/
70
/63/
65
/59/
3.9
/7279/
93
/27/
81
/2/
68
/9/

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
poster
79
53
8.5
/3791/
81
/38/
72
/21/
4.0
/4804/

Kattradhu Thamizh (2007)
A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
5.7
/60279/
62
/5196/
66
/2123/
2.3
/41078/
38
/120/
70
/342/
45
/28/
cc age 14+

Samaritan (2022)
Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
poster
69
51
6.9
/3452/
70
/22/
68
/68/
3.4
/374/
82
/33/
62
/46/
69
/9/

Days and Clouds (2007)
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
poster
63
50
6.9
/3243/
66
/37/
62
/59/
3.4
/1784/
60
/15/
69
/29/
50
/6/

Summer in Berlin (2005)
An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.


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