Labour Equals Freedom (2004)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 11分
演出 : Damjan Kozole
シノプシス
Peter is in his early forties and until recently he worked in a factory, but after Slovenia's integration into the European Union, the factory closed down and Peter and his colleagues have been made redundant. Slowly but surely, he is losing self-confidence and self-esteem.
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.
第二次世界大戦後のイタリア、ローマ。
2年間職に就けなかったアントニオ・リッチは、職業安定所の紹介で役所のポスター貼りの仕事を得る。仕事に就くためには自転車が必要だと言われるが、生活の厳しいアントニオは自転車を質に入れていた。妻のマリアが家のベッドのシーツを質に入れ、その金で自転車を取り戻す。新しい職に浮かれるアントニオを見て、6歳になる息子のブルーノも心を躍らせる。
ブルーノを自転車に乗せ、意気揚々と出勤するアントニオ。しかし仕事の初日、ポスターを貼っている最中に自転車を盗まれてしまう。警察に届けるも「自分で探せ」と言われる始末。自転車がなければ職を失う。新しい自転車を買う金もない。アントニオは自力で自転車を探し始める。
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.
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.
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.
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
現代のノマド（遊牧民）として車上生活を送る女性が、出会う人々と交流し、困難な時代を乗り越えながら、自由に生き抜いていく姿を描く。注目の原作ノンフィクションを、新鋭クロエ・ジャオ監督が映画化した感動作。
Each morning, whatever the day, four friends meet at a bar to have some beers and fix the world their own way, by criticizing and ranting against everything and everyone. They have something in common: they are all unemployed. Well, all but one.
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.
不況の嵐吹くシェフィールド。 失業に喘ぐ男たちをよそに、女たちは熱狂の渦の中にあった。その日、巡業でやって来た男性ストリップ集団「チッペンデール」のショーが行なわれているのだ。その事を知ったガズも、一人息子を抱えて失業中の身であった。女たちの過熱ぶりを見たガズは、「これしかない!」と決意する。そして始まった仲間集めの為のオーディション。そこへ集まったのは、やはりそれぞれに事情を抱える男たちだった。
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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.
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
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.
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
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.
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.
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
「息子のまなざし」「少年と自転車」のジャン＝ピエール＆リュック・ダルデンヌ監督が、「エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～」「君と歩く世界」のマリオン・コティヤールを主演に迎え、労働者の連帯をテーマに贈る社会派ヒューマン・ドラマ。会社から突然解雇を宣告され、それを免れるために同僚たちの協力を仰ぐべく、一人ひとり説得して回るヒロインの運命を描く。
夫と共働きで２人の小さな子どもを育てる工場労働者のサンドラ。体調不良による休職から復帰しようとした矢先、会社から解雇を言い渡されてしまう。アジア勢に押され、経営の苦しい会社としては、社員にボーナスを支給するためにはやむを得ない措置だという。それを撤回してほしければ、同僚16人のうち過半数がボーナスを諦めることに賛成する必要があるという。投票が行われるのは月曜日。サンドラに残された時間はこの週末だけ。“自分のためにボーナスを諦めてほしい”と頼むことがどんなに厚かましいお願いかは百も承知ながら、もはや他に選択の余地がないサンドラは、悲壮な思いで同僚への説得行脚を開始するが…。
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