Poverty Movies

  • 2015
    Jagat

    Jagat

    Jagat

    6.62015HD

    Set in the early 1990’s, a critical period in Malaysian Indian history, the story subtly underlines the plight of the Indian Malaysians....

    Jagat
  • 1949
    Boys from the Streets

    Boys from the Streets

    Boys from the Streets

    7.31949HD

    The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like...

    Boys from the Streets
  • 1987
    The Journey

    The Journey

    The Journey

    3.21987HD

    Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent...

    The Journey
  • 2019
    The Slums

    The Slums

    The Slums

    92019HD

    The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.

    The Slums
  • 2018
    What Comes Around

    What Comes Around

    What Comes Around

    02018HD

    In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily bread is a constant struggle. But the sense of...

    What Comes Around
  • 2022
    Vote

    Vote

    Vote

    02022HD

    A woman struggles as she is caught at a supermarket for shoplifting. This award-winning short film is inspired by the cost of living crisis in...

    Vote
  • 2004
    Lady Joker

    Lady Joker

    Lady Joker

    7.52004HD

    Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

    Lady Joker
  • 1987
    The Beauties of Billings

    The Beauties of Billings

    The Beauties of Billings

    01987HD

    A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

    The Beauties of Billings
  • 1932
    The child's first right

    The child's first right

    The child's first right

    01932HD

    The child's first right
  • 2015
    Historias de Lavapiés

    Historias de Lavapiés

    Historias de Lavapiés

    5.12015HD

    Historias de Lavapiés
  • 2017
    Motel

    Motel

    Motel

    02017HD

    As Niagara Falls transformed from honeymoon capital of the world to Las Vegas North, corporate hotel chains and casinos cast a long shadow over the...

    Motel
  • 1961
    Evergreen Tree

    Evergreen Tree

    Evergreen Tree

    71961HD

    Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of...

    Evergreen Tree
  • 1977
    Morte e Vida Severina

    Morte e Vida Severina

    Morte e Vida Severina

    5.71977HD

    The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads...

    Morte e Vida Severina
  • 2014
    Canción de barrio

    Canción de barrio

    Canción de barrio

    102014HD

    Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were Silvio Rodriguez performs for the marginal...

    Canción de barrio
  • 2016
    The Shepherdess of the Glaciers

    The Shepherdess of the Glaciers

    The Shepherdess of the Glaciers

    72016HD

    She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the...

    The Shepherdess of the Glaciers
  • 1999
    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    6.41999HD

    The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will...

    Love Will Tear Us Apart
  • 2024
    Bitter Taste

    Bitter Taste

    Bitter Taste

    02024HD

    In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...

    Bitter Taste
  • 1998
    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

    01998HD

    Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears...

    Thug Life in D.C.
  • 2019
    Havana, From On High

    Havana, From On High

    Havana, From On High

    72019HD

    The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable,...

    Havana, From On High
  • 2000
    I Want to Be

    I Want to Be

    I Want to Be

    7.4292000HD

    The short drama film follows the daily life of the Juan and Jorge, two brothers living on the streets of Mexico City. It won an Academy Award in 2001...

    I Want to Be