The Company Men

The German Spy Peril

September 1914 •English

An unfit carpenter trails spies through a secret tunnel and blows them up.

Network

November 1976 •English

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Disobedience

December 1958 •Japanese

A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Dela Cruz, Juan P.

March 2025 •Tagalog

After being forced to resign from his previous job, Juan attempts to apply for a new one with absurd qualifications.

Wood Job!

May 2014 •Japanese

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.

REVOLVER

December 2022 •Spanish

The Carpenter

November 2024 •English

An adopted viking orphan becomes a carpenter’s apprentice to Jesus. The orphan, Oren, fights as a side hustle. His experience training as a carpenter with Jesus as his mentor changes his lifestyle.

The Show

June 2019 •English

Sometimes the drama backstage is better than anything on it... Sometimes the drama backstage threatens to destroy everything on it.

1 in 400,000

August 2018 •Japanese

Toru Nakanishi is in his third year at a university. He lies to his ex-girlfriend Mami Higashiyama that he is trying to get a job at a top advertising agency.

We the Poor

March 1948 •Spanish

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

Pau Brasil

April 2014 •Portuguese

In Pau Brasil, a small, lost village in the heart of Brazil, the families of Joaquim and Nives live side by side. Despite living in the same perverse structure of social oppression, they deal with life in radically different ways.

Shukatsu Time Capsule

March 2022 •Japanese

Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend, Shintani Risa. One day, he was asked out by his childhood friends Eiichi and Mamiko to dig out a time capsule that was buried 10 years ago. The time capsule contains a letter from Takuma himself in the past. However, Takuma also receives a letter from himself 10 years later with a "shocking future". He decides to collaborate with the future him to change his life.

Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story

June 2012 •Japanese

University student Nozomi tries to get a job. Back in her hometown, she was lazy, but now Nozomi is used to the quicker pace of Tokyo. Nozomi is also experiencing problems with her boyfriend Kameyama, who seems to be travelling at a different speed in life and work. Meanwhile, Saeko works very hard in the advertising field and she is faithful to her boyfriend Tomoya. Yet, on their first year anniversary, Saeko hear's woman's voice on Tomoya's cellphone. Based on the anthology manga of the same name.

Casque d'Or

March 1952 •French

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.

Blue, Painful, Fragile

August 2020 •Japanese

Two outsider college students set up a secret society circle, "Moai," which aims to change the world. But one day, one of them disappears.

The Nature of Love

September 2023 •French

Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

January 2021 •Japanese

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

I, Daniel Blake

October 2016 •English

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Castle Under Fiery Skies

September 2009 •Japanese

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's novel of the same name received the 33rd Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Art Direction.

Offstage Line

September 1976 •English

An unemployed man desperate for work wanders around St John's, Newfoundland searching for a job.