unemployment

The Full Monty | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
7.2 (109,536 votes)
Budget
3,500,000.00$
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.

La Haine | France
Genre
IMDB
8.1 (139694 votes)
Budget
2,600,000.00$
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said - a Jew, African, and an Arab - give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.

Genre
IMDB
6.7 (28553 votes)
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.

Genre
IMDB
6.6 (13552 votes)
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.

Genre
IMDB
5.3 (13444 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.

Genre
IMDB
6.3 (31187 votes)
Budget
5,000,000.00$
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.

Advantageous | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.2 (4185 votes)
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.

Deux jours, une nuit | France| Italy| Belgium
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (42769 votes)
Budget
7,000,000.00$
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.

Big Nothing | United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
6.8 (28896 votes)
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

Renaissance Man | United States of America| Canada
Genre
IMDB
6.2 (16131 votes)
Budget
40,000,000.00$
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 him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

Red Rock West | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.0 (19215 votes)
Budget
8,000,000.00$
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise 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.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (3582 votes)
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.

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