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...

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

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

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

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

Before the Memphis Juvenile Court are a complex variety of cases: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses....

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and...

Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly...

The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing,...

In a dystopian future, two young candidates, Sevyn Thomas and Solana Jackson, undergo a grueling selection process designed to determine their...

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

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring...

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

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

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

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to...

In an academic committee where student performances are judged, a newcomer lecturer must decide: confront the power she once respected or stay silent...

When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly...

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