Bureaucracy Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a...

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of...

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an...

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on...

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of...

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the...

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...

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s...

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to...

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a...

A woman awakes on a surreal purgatorial island after being mistakenly declared dead.

A poor farmer, unable to claim a remittance because she lacks the required two valid IDs, finds herself in a situation that challenges her character,...

A widowed father must secure a death certificate to bury his daughter, only to learn that without proof she was ever born, the law leaves him no...

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he...

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

A 56-year-old man stuck repeating senior year since 1986 gets one last shot at graduation when a new state exam system forces him to face the test...