Loss of job movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant loss of job movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, humorous, suspense, psychological and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with loss of job, family relations, husband wife relationship, society, fired from the job, unemployment, friendship, redemption, telephone call and chase plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as loss of job: Those Who Work (2018), Larry Crowne (2011), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Long Live the Family! (2011), Nomadland (2020), Very Well, Thank You (2007), Escape from Tomorrow (2013), Wildlife (2018), Get a Job (2016), The Bench (2000).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
loss of job, father daughter relationship, family relations, manager, waking up, greed, workaholic, self discovery, frustration, depression, immigrant, bare chested male ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Style:
entertaining, sweet, romantic, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, loss of job, college, teacher, love story, life, relationships, teacher student relationship, life philosophy, friendship, student life, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, somalia, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
unemployment, loss of job, robbery, heist, caper, bankruptcy, couples, business, husband wife relationship, gangster, suburbs, greed ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he ...
Style:
realistic, road movie, captivating, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, debt, loss of job, lie, police investigation, bank manager, children, fatherhood, family drama, moral dilemma, parent child relationship, travel ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting, suspense
Plot:
life turned upside down, fighting the system, life is a bitch, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, husband wife relationship, loss of job, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, black and white, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
amusement park, hallucination, losing-it hero, disneyland, surrealism, dysfunctional family, adultery, loss of job, middle aged man, disorder, parents and children, midlife crisis ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
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33K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, unemployment, infidelity, cheerleader, unemployed, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations ...
Time:
year 1960, 90s, 60s
Place:
montana, oklahoma city, sarajevo, portland oregon, idaho ...
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28K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A recent college graduate and his friends are forced to lower life expectations when they leave school for the real world. Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of ...
Style:
intense, humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
job interview, workplace, happy ending, college graduate, career, best friend, lifestyle, buddies, adolescence vs adulthood, workplace situations, twentysomething life, sex scene ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, starting over, parents and children, alienation, elderly, life is a bitch, family problems, family reunited, alcoholism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Style:
sincere, independent film, depressing, serious, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
depression, injustice, unemployment, working class, female protagonist, solidarity, loss of job, workplace, employer employee relationship, guilt, poverty, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium, ethiopia, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An engaging drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel ...
Style:
exciting, touching, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
financial crisis, bank, financial problem, finance, fired from the job, risk, suicide, death of father, loss of job, lie, financial ruin, wall street ...
Time:
2000s, year 2016
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, villain, loneliness, mental patient, psycho, comedian, psychological trauma, mental disorder, psychopath, social problems, insanity, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia, bronx new york city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
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132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
black comedy, thought provoking, teen, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, age difference, graduation, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, teen angst, blues, best friend, high school student ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Pusit is having the worst day of his life. He just lost his job and is in serious debt. That is all about to change when he receives a mysterious phone call with a tempting offer. If he could complete 13 tasks, he will win 100 million Baht. Pusit ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
debt, manipulation, rivalry, dishonesty, down on your luck, fictional game show, greed, deception, loss of job, torture, extreme, killing an animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Florian is a successful up and coming architect. However, when the firm goes bust, his life changes drastically. He has to take a job in a pizza place and move to a cheap and run down area of town. But not all is bad. He also learns that ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, comedy drama, realistic, independent film
Plot:
loss of job, pizzeria, changing lives, personal growth, self discovery, relationships, love affair, second chance, urban, slice of life, class differences, blue collar ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
friendship, society, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, dishonesty, misfit partners, poverty, rescue, loss of job, bum, homeless ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by ...
Style:
light, funny, witty, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
marriage, sarcasm, loss of job, finance, in-laws, pension, japanese woman, financial crisis, family drama, family life, comedy of errors, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dexter Reed is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back. With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but ...
Style:
buddy comedy, satirical, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
businessman, food, invention, job, loss of job, fast food, fast food restaurant, cooking, restaurant, workplace, workplace situations, satire ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style:
cult classic, psychological, rough, black comedy, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, vigilante, anger, midlife crisis, alienation, violence, character study, social commentary, urban decay, losing-it hero, traffic jam, road rage ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, persia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
stroke, father daughter relationship, loss of job, hospital, self discovery, introspection, family relations, society, relationship vs career, couples, speech impediment, male nurse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With the help of an inventor's secret workshop, Ritter Rost tries to lead his country out of a terrible crisis and become a knight again.
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
friendship, kingdom, loss of job, financial crisis, save the kingdom, children, imaginary kingdom, queen, teamwork, fictional kingdom, protector, heroes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Steve and Cynthia are a newlywed couple celebrating their first Christmas together. They invite their families to join them for the holidays, but when Steve is laid off just before Christmas and Cynthia discovers she's pregnant, they both keep ...
Style:
feel good, psychological, christmas special, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, young couple, newlywed, newlyweds, comedy of errors, pregnant wife, pregnancy, christmas season, mother in law, husband wife relationship, loss of job, married couple ...
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23K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, spooky, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
bartender, body horror, supernatural horror, occult, mental disorder, cockroach, bar fight, macabre, extreme, hardcore, terror, supernatural ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece, in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by the publishers. The text is signed Henri Pick, a Breton pizza maker who died two years earlier.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, disturbing, atmospheric
Plot:
publisher, writers, manuscript, investigation, school teacher, teacher, widow, book, loss of job, breakup, disorder, society ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brittany, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
politics, husband wife relationship, dancer, father son relationship, death of father, loss of job, sabotage, village, theater, effeminacy, theatrical troupe, lgbt ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, crying ...
Plot:
family business, friendship, family relations, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, single mother, family life, working class, black, friends, couples, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eva lives a happy life with her father, an unsuccessful but always optimistic car salesman, her consumerist mother, and her quirky grandmother. But Eva is a tad different - she suffers from Tourette's syndrome. Her family has long been ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, educational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
tourette's syndrome, family relations, loss of job, teenage girl, uncle niece relationship, disability, psychological disorder, grandparent grandchild relationship, unemployment, bag of money, family dinner, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, optimism, society, hopes, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, latin america, colombia
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