These are the selective best films use the unemployment in the storyline as plot device.
- The Big Lebowski
- Gates of Paris
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Heat
- Idiot Box
- It's a Free World...
- Master of the World
- Mondays in the Sun
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Raining Stones
- Time Out
- Two Days, One Night
- Washington Merry-Go-Round