Marseille. The director of a company offers a promotion to Francois (Michel Creton) if he accepts to help him fire all the staff from his office. If he refuses, he will himself be fired. Francois opts for the latter. He registers as unemployed and discovers what he has lacked so far in his life: a certain freedom. His habits are changing as well as his attitude towards the others changes ... Luce (Claude Jade), his wife, and Marquerite (Courtois Queen), her stepmother, are surprised: why he is not himself anymore?

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The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of fa...

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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, ...

It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out diff...

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Ian is an aspiring autistic photographer who struggles with a painful memory and unemployment, follo...

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and th...

A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife af...

Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in...

A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfr...

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accum...

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the l...

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, bec...

Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn...

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, ...