Movies (60) tagged by 'Unemployment'
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Wanderlust (2012)
Linda (Jennifer Aniston) and George (Paul Rudd), a married couple who finds they are unable to afford their Manhattan home after G...
History of the World: Part I (1981)
In this spoof of great moments in history from the dawn of humanity through the French Revolution, director Mel Brooks delivers a twisted history lesson throu...
Soul Food (1997)
Three sisters deal with romantic crises and their widowed mother's fatal illness.
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Dick (Jim Carrey) and Jane (Tea Leoni) are a typical suburban couple. They have a nice house in a development, she works as a travel agent to supplement his whi...
Waiting for Forever (2010)
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.
The Full Monty (1997)
A jobless steelworker (Robert Carlyle) in need of quick cash persuades his unbuff buddies (Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy) to bare it all in a one-n...
Man's Job (2007)
Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family...
Evelyn (2003)
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house t...
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 p...
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.
Kismat Konnection (2008)
A Toronto-based social activist, Priya, meets with out of work Architect, Raj Malhotra, and both end up with a series of hilarious misunderstandings. Priya fin...
Renaissance Man (1994)
Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find ...
Post Grad (2009)
Recent college graduate Ryden Malby (Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel) has just survived four years of higher education, but when she's forced to move back into...
Meet the Browns (2008)
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown fami...
101 Reykjavk (2000)
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl ...
Zara Si Zindagi (1983)
Remake of Balachander's Tamil hit Varumayin Niram Sivappu, Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Raja, a graduate looking for work in capital, sharing a small home ...
What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)
Unfortunately, Trevor realises that what goes up must come down when he accidentally takes a ride in the fire station's hot air balloon.
Le salaire de la peur (1955)
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A...
Odd Jobs (2010)
Nate is a neurotic, recently laid-off investment banker. Joe is his unemployed, morally questionable, hustler roommate. Unable to find gainful employment (or pa...
Little Man What Now (1934)
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire marr...
Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) pays a bum (Gary Cooper) to pose as her popular but made-up spokesman, John Doe.
The Survivors (1984)
Sonny Paluso and Donald Quinelle are two unfortunate people who just lost their jobs, when they meet in a bar; Sonny's gas station has been blown away and Donal...
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident...
Change of Heart (1934)
Janet Gaynor and James Dunn and their close friends Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
The Big One (1998)
Filmmaker/satirist Michael Moore examines downsizing, factory closings and other aspects of corporate America.
Dil Daulat Duniya (1972)
Multi-millionaire Seth Kalidas has a surprise waiting for him when he returns to his home. Disgusted with his state of existence both wife and only daughter (...
Red Light Revolution (2010)
A luckless Beijinger opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)
Michel and Marie-Claire lived happily for more than 30 years, even after he lost his job. The big shock comes from the couple discovered that a friend fired alo...
The Daughter (2015)
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left hom...
Hell's House (1932)
Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is dating Peggy. Unwilling to squeal on his idol, Jimmy winds up in a cruel reformatory where a new- found frien...
Carts of Darkness (2008)
In North Vancouver, Canada, a group of homeless men engage in racing shopping carts.
My Own Man (2014)
David the filmmaker is 40 years old, but he still doesn't feel like a man - not a real man anyway. When his wife becomes pregnant with a boy, David's manhood in...
Looks and Smiles (1981)
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations...
Cross My Heart (1987)
A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and she's afraid he'll run away if he finds out that she has a kid. ...
Rafter Romance (1933)
A man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet.
The Lost Brother (2017)
Cetarti, a public employee who has just been fired, travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a lonely town in the Chaco province. He must take care of the corpse...
Forty Little Mothers (1940)
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned c...
The Bench (2000)
Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's l...
The Adversary (2002)
When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.
Go West (1925)
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Hidden in America (1996)
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids th...
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Private Detective 62 (1933)
A down and out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame.
Floundering (1994)
In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flou...
The Telephone (1988)
A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her...
Yhden miehen sota (1973)
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There ...
The Merry Monahans (1944)
The Merry Monahans are a vaudeville family act bouncing from circuit to circuit reconnecting with past friends and loves, creating new friends and romances, and...
His Private Secretary (1933)
Dick Wallace secretly marries a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who thinks she is a gold digger, is opposed. She takes a job with the company und...
Forever Tomorrow (2016)
A narrative of addiction and redemption is weaved out of the lives of those attending AA meetings, the turbulent life of several young adults and the relationsh...
The Right Connections (1997)
Upon learning that their mother owes $5,000 to the IRS, a quartet of siblings endeavor to find a way to scare up the cash. Three of them decide to sign up for a...
You're Darn Tootin' (1982)
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they...
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
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