Zama (2017), Foxtrot (2017), Page Eight (2011), The Challenger Disaster (2013), Fear and Trembling (2003), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Xala (1975), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bureaucracy movies.
Storyline: While visiting the small town of Guantanamo, the famous singer Yoyita (Conchita Brando) dies unexpectedly while reminiscing with her old flame, Candido (Raúl Eguren). When Yoyita's niece, Georgina (Mirta Ibarra), makes plans for a funeral in Havana, her undertaker husband (Carlos Cruz) uses the opportunity to implement his gas- and money-saving coffin transportation scheme across Cuba. The trip results in misadventures, black-market dealings and insights into life and politics in Cuba.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, music, road movie, cultural clash, political satire, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mr. Lazarescu, a 63 year old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives, the paramedic decides he should take him to the hospital but once there they decide to send him to another hospital and then yet another... As the night unfolds and they can't find a hospital for Mr. Lazarescu, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Plot Keywords: realism, social critique, healthcare system, humanity, loneliness, death, bureaucracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate their way through the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.
Plot Keywords: social realism, working class, bureaucracy, poverty, british society, unemployment, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, black comedy, science fiction, bureaucracy, surrealism, social satire, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, modern life, city, technology, bureaucracy, architecture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Post-war Berlin is the microcosm of the polarization of West and East; American and Soviet. C.R. MacNamara's Coca-Cola's head of West Berlin operations, His life goes into a spin when he must deal with the visit of Scarlett Hazeltine; the 17yo spoilt daughter of his boss. On the same day Mac hears Mr. & Mrs. Hazeltine will be iarriving in a day, he also learns Scarlett's married Otto Ludwig Piffl, a staunch East German Communist. Mac also learns Scarlett's pregnant, Mac has to get Otto, and turn him into a respectable young man for the soon-to-be arriving boss... and Otto's father-in-law.
Plot Keywords: comedy, political satire, cold war, billy wilder, cultural clash, absurd plot, satirical humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
Plot Keywords: documentary, pandemic, u.s. government, public health, crisis management, corruption, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The rise and fall of the circus experience. The story of the circus as an American experiment and entertainment. The story of those who brought it to life.
Plot Keywords: political, corruption, iceland, independent film, female protagonist, social justice, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation.—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, coming of age, black comedy, sexual awakening, nazi, occupation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As India, the world's largest democracy, braces itself for another general election- with 9 million polling booths, more than 800 million voters, and costing nearly $5 billion -- Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India. The bushes teem with Communist guerrillas, who have been waging a decades old war against the state, even as the indigenous tribals live without any access to mainland amenities. Conducting 'free and fair' elections in a minefield like this is no child's play, as Newton learns over the course of this eventful day. Unfazed with the cynicism and danger all around him, Newton is determined to do his duty. But, as they say in the jungle, 'The more things change, the worse they will get'.
Plot Keywords: political, satire, indian cinema, black comedy, election, bureaucracy, democracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú's (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the surface, where the real people go home after work, who go to the movies or a fine restaurant is now replaced by the dark, cold and solitude arena of his new dwellings. He, and his motley crew of ragtag metro ticket Kontrollers must patrol the trains that run these City dwellers back and forth and with daily ritual, check that no one dare come down into their world for a free ride. With indifferent passengers, a possible love interest, a regime set on competition and to top it all a mysterious serial killer at large, Kontroll is a dark and bleak comedy of the world of the ticket inspector, who, in the end must keep this Metro system running. If not, what would be the worst that could happen, if they ever lost control? Dare you ride here for free, too?
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, surrealism, urban loneliness, underground world, social outcasts, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the Initech office, the insecure Peter Gibbons hates his job and the obnoxious Division VP Bill Lumbergh who has just hired two efficiency consultants to downsize the company. His best friends are two software engineers Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar, that also hate Initech, and his intrusive next door neighbor Lawrence. He believes his girlfriend Anne is cheating on him but she convinces Peter to visit the hypnotherapist Dr. Swanson. Peter tells how miserable his life is and Dr. Swanson hypnotizes him and he goes into a state of ecstasy. However, Dr. Swanson dies immediately after giving the hypnotic suggestion to Peter. Peter, in his new state, starts to date the waitress Joanna and changes his attitude which results in his being promoted by the consultants. When he discovers that Michael and Samir will be downsized, they decide to plant a virus in the banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation into Peter's account. However Michael commits a ...
Plot Keywords: comedy, workplace, satire, american, 1990s, dark humor, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Shaurya' (Rajkummar Rao) must pluck up the courage to stay alive after he accidentally locks himself up in his new rented apartment in a desolate Mumbai high-rise, for almost a week. To make things worse, his phone battery dies and since the building is devoid of residents, electricity and water or food supply, Shaurya must take extreme measures to survive this unexpected nightmare.—subratjain1
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, crime, survival, confined space, human nature, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, rural, legal, female, social, realism, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Connecticut, lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna ...
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, immigration, cultural clash, loneliness, friendship, new york ...
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