The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late '30s, there were many in Charlie's position. Determined to change this, a committee was formed to team up local employers with these young men. Through their efforts, and with the help of the Federal Government, people were trained and employed. As a result, their hopeless attitudes were transformed into a readiness to learn and be useful members of society.
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be ro...
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his ru...
"The Last One Put Out the Light" - The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are ou...
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, ...
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer ...
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...
Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is face...
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfr...
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and th...
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, ...
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...
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...