Bureaucracy Movies

A man is downtown and urgently needs to pee, but a vindictive voice on the phone holds the combination to his pants in this dark comedy of...

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

In a dystopian reality plagued by corruption, a rebellious government employee finds an alternate way to change the system: kill the corrupt.

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

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

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

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...

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

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in...

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

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.

Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a satire play well-known around the world. In the period between the end of World War II and the 1960s, the...

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...

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...

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...

Driven by their current principal's bureaucratic pressure, a group of teachers is forced to attend the funeral of a former headmaster they have never...

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 dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.

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

In a not-so-distant future, Adeel must comply with the machines to survive.