Bureaucracy Movies

The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in...

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

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...

Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury...

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

The stationmaster is trying to prevent his station from being closed. The train isn't coming and he has to explain to the waiting trainpassengers why...

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

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 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...

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...

A satirical anthology film transforms popular humorous and sarcastic stage songs into standalone vignettes that lampoon the absurdities of...

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

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

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

A political satire in which an animated man with a drum is waiting for his cue.

Author adapted his dream into a short movie.

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...

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...

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...