Unemployment movies and TV shows – page 5

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The Gods of Wheat Street (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. Can he let go of his past in time to save the future?
Style: touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: family life, haunted by the past, single parent, family tradition, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, family reunited, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia
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twentysomething (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Best friends Jess and Josh never went to uni, never had a clear talent and never had the drive to grow up. When their mind-numbing jobs start wearing them down and they don't have an impressive answer to the dreaded question 'So what do ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, adulthood, business venture, unfulfillment, disorder, unemployment, youth, nothing goes right, grownups, family relations, twentysomething life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Crossing Borders (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: emigration, culture clash, family problems, society, social relations, workplace, politics, family relations, working class, unemployment, job seeking, immigrant ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, switzerland
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 5.7
 315
Now or Never (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, unemployment, down on your luck, family in crisis, society, plan, bankruptcy, danger, black, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 807
Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 883
Offline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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Christmas Angel (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching, christmas classics ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, workplace, fall in love, couples, hopes, human spirit, unemployment, new year, xmas, christmas romance, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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Santa Maradona (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, fall in love, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, human nature, twentysomething life, unemployment ...
Place: europe, italy
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The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the recently acquired journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers, this vintage horror tale debunks history books to tell the veracious, harrowing story of a rural Texas community whose residents were terrified for years by a mysterious creature ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, avant garde ...
Plot: beast, bigfoot, missing child, gory, vengeance, deadly creature, dangerous animal, danger, unemployment, farm, sasquatch, urban legend ...
Time: 70s
Place: texas, usa
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 6.1
 228
The Good Boy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: athlete's life, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world, unemployment, friendship, boxer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, poor, murder, power relations, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, europe, spain
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 5.7
 4K
Awaydays (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, life is a bitch, violence spree, down on your luck ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
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 5.3
 8K
She Hate Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sex comedy, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: lesbian, workplace, investigation, sperm bank, sexuality, workplace situations, couple relations, rise and fall, male prostitution, couples, false accusation, unemployment ...
Time: year 2004
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Off and Running (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A missed highway exit and here is Darry Marzouki, unemployed conjurer, crossing the road with Irène Montier Duval, a beautiful bourgeois, the Hermès bag full of banknotes. Out of love, she served as an intermediary in an arms sale between a French ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: on the run, love affair, unemployment, love and romance, tourette's syndrome, political corruption, restaurant, money, chauffeur, hotel room, kidnapping, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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 7.4
 5K
Apaharan (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Story of a tumultuous and complex relationship between a father (Mohan Agashe) and son (Ajay Devgan), set against the backdrop of a thriving kidnapping industry in the Hindi heartland of Bihar.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: politics, gangster, bribery, moral dilemma, introspection, human nature, dishonesty, injustice, ransom, police corruption, unemployment, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
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 7.1
 2K
Hi, Tereska (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, dull life, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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 4.5
 499
Killer Bud (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: best friend, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, drug dealing, unemployment, heist ...
Place: usa
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 6.1
 11K
The Brave (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, misfit, unemployment, alcohol abuse, gang, society, male female relationship, self sacrifice, violence ...
Time: 90s
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The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
Story: Set in 1912, the entire film takes place inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, where its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: alcoholic, society, life is a bitch, unemployment, anarchist, bartender, prostitute, confession, drug addiction, storytelling, union, cold war ...
Time: 1910s, year 1912
Place: usa, new york
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Father and Sons (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, unemployment, fake illness, father son relationship, father son reunion, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada, paris france, montreal
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Taxi to the Toilet (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Frank Ripploh tries to keep his professional and personal life separate. During the day, he is a dedicated school teacher. At night and on the weekends, he is a gay man who is always on the prowl for anonymous sex often in public places. Things may ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: gay, oral sex, gender, looking for sex, infidelity, lgbt, teacher, couple relations, gays and lesbians, drug use, gay interest, masturbation ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: europe, germany, berlin germany
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Between the Canals (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, working class, urban ghetto life, moral dilemma, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, unemployment, police detective, life is a bitch, downfall, st. patrick's day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 7.2
 499
Aviva, My Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town, unemployment, social decay, small town life, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
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 7.5
 11K
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style: lyrical, stylized, talky, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, rebellion, youth, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china
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 7.0
 7K
Sister (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, ski, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, snow, petty criminal, mountain, boy, self discovery, society, family relations, unemployment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, swiss alps, alps
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 6.3
 2K
Madison (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. ...
Style: serious, feel good, realistic, melancholic, anamorphic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom, hopes ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: usa, indiana
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You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, save the day, partner, lifestyle, nothing goes right, escapades, misfit, odd couple, unemployment, cons and scams, party, friendship ...
Place: australia
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This Is England '86 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England. Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, disturbing, touching, serious ...
Plot: subculture, skinhead, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, friends, rebelliousness, teenage life, sexual relations, adolescence, couples, student ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
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The Client List (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she and her husband lose their jobs, a former Texas homecoming queen inadvertently finds herself in the middle of a prostitution ring after she unknowingly accepts a position at a massage parlor.
Style: realistic, touching, sexy, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: prostitute, massage parlor, prostitution, life is a bitch, workplace, parents and children, family problems, massage, dishonesty, lifestyle, society, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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 7.0
 2K
Skins (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot: native american reservation, vigilantism, native american, brother brother relationship, family relations, arson, vandalism, life is a bitch, homecoming, american football, social relations, human nature ...
Time: year 2002
Place: nebraska, montana, idaho, asia, south dakota ...
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Crossing the Line (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, cult classic, bleak ...
Plot: boxing, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, gambling, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry, working class, down on your luck, unemployment, mixed martial arts, illegal fistfight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, england
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