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?

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it ...

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to ...

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

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

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an Engl...

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing sc...

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

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...

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

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires ...

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

A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams working on a ship and stays with a cou...

In a Swedish industrial community people are forced into unemployment to turn a iron-works company's...

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

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. H...

Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for t...

Tom is a perfect macho, whose prejudices are challenged when he loses his job, his apartment and his...