Mondays in the Sun (Spanish: Los lunes al sol) is a 2002 drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, starring Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar and José Ángel Egido.

A court case hangs over him that concerns a shipyard streetlamp he smashed during a protest against the closure, which he claims to not want to pay, not because of the financial cost but of what it stands for.

While babysitting, Santa invites his friends around to have a few beers outside where Serguei claims his career as an astronaut was forestalled by economic measures in the Soviet Space program.

As a result of his drunken state and the newly deepened friendship, Amador, who has never allowed any of the group to go inside his 4th floor apartment, lets Santa in to help him upstairs.

After putting Amador to bed, Santa goes to wash some glasses only to find that there is no running water, leading him to explore the apartment which he sees is rundown and in a state hardly better than if he were living on the street.

That same day, Lino is waiting in line for another job interview and before being called for his turn, he looks ahead seeing a reflection of himself, ultimately deciding that he is wasting his time looking for employment in such places.

The group of friends stay out all night in the middle of the passage without any cares and by morning there is a large crowd around the ferry terminal watching the men from afar.

A Spanish-French-Italian co-production, Mondays in the Sun was produced by Elías Querejeta PC (Elías Querejeta) and Mediapro (Jaume Roures), alongside Quo Vadis Cinema (Jérôme Vidal), Eyescreen (Andrea Occhipinti), and Televisión de Galicia, in association with Continental Producciones (Pancho Casal), with the participation of Vía Digital [es] and Antena 3.

The website's critical consensus states: "Javier Bardem gives an outstanding performance in this thought-provoking (though occasionally plodding) movie about the effects of unemployment on a group of former shipyard workers".

[7] Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be "a powerful parable about unemployed men", "a tough-but-tender movie driven by perfectly modulated performances, an accomplished script and naturalistic dialogue".

[9] Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País deemed Mondays in the Sun to be "a vibrant and beautiful film that contains a magnificent collective work", "a film of great distinction, a vigorous and seemingly linear story, but one of those that under its apparent simplicity, it touches on the major issues of people's lives in any part of the world", otherwise also writing about its "diaphanous script, bordering on perfection".