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Daddy Day Care(2003)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 942 votes)

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.

Fun with Dick and Jane(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 1,045 votes)

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 even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

Nomadland(2020)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,288 votes)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Directed by Chloé Zhao - With Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Peter Spears

Harsh Times(2005)

1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
3.2/5 (with 281 votes)

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Micmacs(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 247 votes)

While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.

Life as a House(2001)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 5min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 175 votes)

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

13 Sins(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 487 votes)

Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.

Bicycle Thieves(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,032 votes)

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Post Grad(2009)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 141 votes)

Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.

The Full Monty(1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 694 votes)

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

L.A. Story(1991)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 135 votes)

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

Two Days, One Night(2014)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 408 votes)

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.

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Red Rock West(1993)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 128 votes)

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

Renaissance Man(1994)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 8min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 126 votes)

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

Raining Stones(1993)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 53 votes)

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Bruce Jones, Julie Brown

Plan 75(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

Directed by Chie Hayakawa - With Chieko Baishō

You, Me and Dupree(2006)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 596 votes)

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed couple almost permanently -- as their houseguest. But the longer Dupree camps out on their couch, the closer he gets to Carl's bride, Molly, leaving the frustrated groom wondering when his pal will be moving out.

Pather Panchali(1955)

2h 5min | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 158 votes)

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

A Dog's Life(1918)

34min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

New Kids Turbo(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 24min | Action, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 114 votes)

Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.

Once Were Warriors(1994)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 173 votes)

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

Factotum(2005)

3.1/5 (with 85 votes)

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Big Nothing(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 26min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 175 votes)

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

Gung Ho(1986)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 82 votes)

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

In the Army Now(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 93 votes)

Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.

Drifting Clouds(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 57 votes)

Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next. Finally, their courage, confidence, and their unbreakable love triumph over the fate.

Freddy Got Fingered(2001)

1h 27min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 170 votes)

An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.

Take My Eyes(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 92 votes)

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...

Paradise Now(2005)

1h 30min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue(1975)

1h 38min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

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