Bureaucracy Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later. Her son Joseph, while still grieving for his...

Author adapted his dream into a short movie.

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

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...

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...