Bureaucracy Movies

After his visa is denied, a young man facing deportation is mistaken for the owner of a found wallet at the immigration office. What begins as a burea...

A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempt...

Successfully completed your studies - now what? Raffly already has a lucrative job offer from a large German company, but neither an apartment nor a w...

When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the offi...

In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were s...

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to m...

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraf...

The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing, unem...

A primary school teacher wants to assert his right to his homeland and encounters the stubbornness of civil servants, while a social worker becomes a...

Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their...

The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in th...

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Cobbler Mr. Prokouk starts working in an office where there is a lot of paperwork too big for him.

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki...

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

A stop-motion Sisyphus is overwhelmed by the Czechoslovakian bureaucracy.

The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make...

This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applic...

A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.