In a Swedish industrial community people are forced into unemployment to turn a iron-works company's negative profitability trend. Martin Holmbäck arrives from Stockholm to effect the layoffs.

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up...

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from...

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