John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...
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 young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...
The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed youn...
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out diff...
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for ...
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite mea...
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redund...
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up...
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michel...