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Parasite(2019)

Κ-18
| 2h 13min | Comedy, Thriller, Drama
4.3/5 (with 7,857 votes)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Directed by Bong Joon-ho - With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, ...

The Big Lebowski(1998)

16
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Crime
3.9/5 (with 5,103 votes)

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

Reality Bites(1994)

3.3/5 (with 302 votes)

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The Five-Year Engagement(2012)

2.9/5 (with 594 votes)

Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.

Barfly(1987)

3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Withnail & I(1987)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 226 votes)

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Boys on the Outside(1990)

1h 50min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

Waiting for Forever(2010)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 125 votes)

A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

Weather Girl(2009)

2.9/5 (with 27 votes)

Succumbing to the stresses of her personal and professional lives, Sylvia, a Seattle morning show weather forecaster, has a meltdown live on-air. Now, unemployed, lacking career prospects, and with a mess of a romantic life, she moves in with her little brother. She must learn how to cope with being 35-years-old and unfortunately famous for melting down on live television.

The Ax(2005)

16
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 73 votes)

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Lucky Chan-sil(2020)

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

After losing her job, Chansil, a movie producer, moves to a small mountain village. The owner of her house, an old lady looks suspicious, and what she does to earn a living is unfamiliar to her. From one day on, a cool-looking ghost keeps appearing in front of Chansil’s eyes.

Directed by Kim Cho-hee - With Kang Mal-geum, Youn Yuh-jung, Kim Yeong-min, Yoon Seung-ah, Bae Yu-ram

Tony(2010)

1h 16min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 30 votes)

Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result….

Directed by Gerard Johnson - With Peter Ferdinando, Ricky Grover
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Kilukkam(1991)

2h 35min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Nandini is an illegitimate child who comes to Ooty in search of her father. She meets Joji, a tourist guide, and pretends to be mentally unstable in order to get shelter in his house.

3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt(1964)

1h 18min | Comedy
1.5/5 (with 5 votes)

An out of work Method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist so they can get counseling for cheap. The psychiatrist is intrigued by the split personalities indicated by the three separate sets of problems presented by the actor, and soon producers are climbing out of the woodwork trying to buy the rights to the film, while the actor is having trouble keeping his act together.

Unknown Pleasures(2002)

1h 53min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.

Directed by Jia Zhangke - With Zhao Tao

Rajini Murugan(2016)

2h 39min | Comedy, Action
2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Rajini Murugan locks horns with Yezharai Mookkan who tries to get a share of Murugan's ancestral property by defaming his grandfather.

Directed by Ponram - With Sivakartikeyan, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran, Samuthirakani, Soori

Somersault in a Coffin(1996)

1h 16min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 29 votes)

Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.

Directed by Derviş Zaim - With Tuncel Kurtiz

Georgettan's Pooram(2017)

2h 36min | Comedy, Drama
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

George Vadakkan is the quintessential prodigal son of a priest, who wished he followed the father’s path. His friends and George generally hang out at Mathayi Parambu, a public playground cum hangout space of the area. How the park plays a part in setting his life straight is the core of the pooram.

Ramji Rao Speaking(1989)

2h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.

Directed by Siddique-Lal - With Saikumar, Mukesh, Innocent, Rekha, Devan

Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga(2013)

2h 25min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Kesavan and Murugan are content to live out of their fathers pockets, whiling away time with their buddies and wooing their respective lovers. How do they turn responsible adults?

Bumping Into Broadway(1919)

25min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

Rocky Road(2014)

1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

When a Wall Street firm downsizes, a well-to-do trader finds himself living with his parents and driving their ice cream truck.

Floundering(1994)

2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.

Abrupt Decision(2011)

1h 35min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Denis went into the office Friday morning. Ten minutes later he was fired and his entire world changed. As a man in mid-life crisis, he believed there has to be more to life than this. A stray dog in the park opens his eyes.

Uuno Turhapuro(1973)

1h 27min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.

Kirumi(2015)

1h 44min | Thriller, Action, Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Kathir, a carefree young man, becomes a police informer like his neighbour Prabhakar, and begins to get too close with inspector Soundarapandian, despite the warnings of the latter. It is only when he tries to ride on an ego clash between Soundarapandian and Mathiarasu, a rival inspector, that he realizes he's become a pawn in a dangerous game.

Directed by Anucharan Murugaiyan

Fast Sofa(2001)

1h 49min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Rick, a dope fiend, believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies obsessively, and deals drugs on the side, all to the chagrin of his lover Tamara. He decides to seek out Ginger while on the road, and along the way picks up Jules, a neurotic virgin.

Directed by Salomé Breziner

Shut Up When You Speak!(1981)

1h 29min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle. In reality he is unemployed, overwhelmed by an obsessive mother who continually called to see if he wore his woolen tank top and is treated by a doctor who thinks he is Einstein. Finally Giacomo is followed by bizarre characters, kidnapped and taken to Tunisia to live a wonderful adventure of her dreams, from the dangers of any kind ... and he met Beatrice.

Swayamvaram(1972)

2h 11min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Vishwam and Sita, who resist the opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happier married life, but soon land in a sea of perils without a source of income.

Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan - With Madhu

Chopping Block(2016)

1h 22min | Comedy, Horror
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

CHOPPING BLOCK follows a group of corporate guys who get laid off. Desperate times call for desperate measures. They decide to kidnap their ex-boss's daughter for ransom. Things take a bloody turn, when the boss's daughter just happens to be the only survivor of a masked psychopath. A masked psychopath still out for blood. Hilarity & bloodshed ensue...

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