Movies and TvShows featuring "refusing-to-work" theme.

Private Parts is a comedic biographical film that follows the life of shock jock Howard Stern as he rises to fame in the radio industry. Filled with crude humor and controversial topics, Stern becomes a cultural phenomenon, but must also face the challenges of personal relationships and professional success.

Tristana, an orphaned young woman, is taken in by a wealthy older man who becomes her guardian. As she grows up, Tristana starts to yearn for freedom and explores her own desires. This leads to complicated male-female relationships, unrequited love, and societal clashes. Tristana's journey involves struggles with her physical disability, societal expectations, and personal independence.

Accattone follows the story of a young man named Accattone who faces financial difficulties and resorts to exploiting a prostitute to survive. As he navigates the poverty-stricken streets of Rome, he becomes involved in a robbery and faces moral dilemmas that force him to confront his own idleness.

Loulou tells the story of an unhappy wife who gets involved with an adulterous relationship while working in an advertising agency. When her ex-convict lover enters her life, things take a turn for the worse as they struggle with a lack of money and face the consequences of their actions. The movie explores themes of love, betrayal, and the complexities of relationships in 1980s France.

A penniless man in 1960s France, driven by hunger and poverty, steals money and seeks divine signs to avoid work. With the help of a pocket watch, a motorcycle, and a toffee, he finds himself caught up in a series of comical and chaotic events, including a burglary and a narrow escape from the police. As he navigates through a world of bourgeois values and religious norms, he questions the importance of money and the true meaning of happiness.

Heartbeat is a drama and romance film set in 1960s France. It revolves around a love triangle and explores the themes of class differences and love at first sight. The protagonist finds herself in an older man-younger woman relationship and faces the challenges of an unwanted pregnancy. The film delves into the bourgeois lifestyle and the complexities of relationships, depicted against the backdrop of Paris and Saint-Tropez.

Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts.

The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.