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.
A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...
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...
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...
The only cure of being jobelessness, unhappy and hopelessness is friendship, life is beautiful toget...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, ...
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, ...
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be ro...
Ralf Paeschke is a film student who has to make a documentary film about a group of women working in...