Movies: Work

A young woman desperate to escape her blue-collar life rises in the high-stakes world of arms dealing, only to find herself in deadly peril when she sells a gun to a world-famous author with sinister motives. As the stakes escalate, she must outsmart...

“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006. A miner was trapped underground, and by the fourth day when everyone was beginning to lose hope of his safe retu...

The film explores the potential for automation in every sector of employment and questions the integrity of our methods of resource distribution going into the future....

What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and ima...

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours....

Basuki (22) is a fresh graduate with a Javanese accent from Semarang who has migrated to the metropolitan city. Through online video conversation, he tries to improve his Indonesian Language for a job interview....

What would you do if you had to fire your best friend? It is at this point where Julio (a young businessman of an apparently reliable firm) finds himself when he learns that Santi along with twenty four other workers under his service has to be fired...

A clerk at a lost property office is faced with unexpected change, and plans an unconventional response....

Miti, an old worker, and Sokol, a young driver, undertake a long journey to transport a huge metallic tower from the Durrës harbor to an important plant....

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetitious labor....

Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hos...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he gets an old shiny bell....

A copywriter decides to stop working, sending an entire ad agency into chaos....

After a depressive episode, a pet shop attendant can no longer work. Medicated but still struggling, she is forced to return to her normal life....

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names - there are no interviews. The women are presented simply as workers: cooking, cleaning, hauling, and ...

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision....

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A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer confronts how “work works.” Culled entirely from archival footage, the film unfolds in the filmmakers’ tradem...

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977....

An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter....