Bureaucracy Movies

Anthropologist Laura Nader's first field trip to a Zapotec Indian village in Oaxaca, Mexico, in the late 1950s, led her to study problem-solving in...

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

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...

A concerned citizen encounters a political writing on a public bus stop and decides to call city services. When they fail to respond he decides to...

A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that...

Author adapted his dream into a short movie.

Bureaucracy shapes our lives and guides us from the cradle to the grave. This documentary lays bare the idiosyncrasies of bureaucracy, whether in...

Civil Service follows a single man in charge of "family services" through a typical workday as he denies requests for government assistance while...

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

Two brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven't paid the rent. The orphans pack up their few possessions and...

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...

When a young couple in Vienna suddenly find themselves unemployed, they open a little restaurant near a local soccer place. Soon they have to find...

The only thing colder than a Canadian winter is Canadian bureaucracy (probably). Based on five real life stories, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe...

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.

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

Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a...

A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man...

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". The Tsar reads...

A satirical anthology film transforms popular humorous and sarcastic stage songs into standalone vignettes that lampoon the absurdities of...