Bureaucracy Movies

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...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A stop-motion Sisyphus is overwhelmed by the Czechoslovakian bureaucracy.

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy...

The corpse of a woman is found in front of Maria’s apartment window. She agrees to take charge of the funeral, becoming involved in her...

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

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

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Sweden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can...

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

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...

When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the...

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...

A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt...

In a distant future, a digital being nears embodiment as an immigration officer arrives at the facility.

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of...

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under...

When Mort—the brains behind Hell's torture—hears the pain he causes, he questions his purpose, but is soon presented with an unrefusable...

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

"Juvenile Court" shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse,...

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...