Bureaucracy Movies

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to...

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

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

After his visa is denied, a young man facing deportation is mistaken for the owner of a found wallet at the immigration office. What begins as a...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

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