Poverty Movies
- 2005
Cold Showers
Cold Showers5.5432005HD
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa....
- 2012
Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place
Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place02012HD
Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil...
- 1974
Faith, Hope and Charity
Faith, Hope and Charity6.21974HD
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
- 2012
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty82012HD
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the...
- 2015
Ghost Town to Havana
Ghost Town to Havana02015HD
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...
- 2020
Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me
Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me102020HD
On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin...
- 2015
Good Funk
Good Funk02015HD
Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...
- 2014
Something Better to Come
Something Better to Come6.72014HD
Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world:...
- 1995
Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen6.61995HD
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as...
- 1996
Cyclo
Cyclo71996HD
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a...
- 1998
The Rose Seller
The Rose Seller7.6881998HD
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her...
- 1980
80 Blocks from Tiffany's
80 Blocks from Tiffany's6.5871980HD
This 1979 documentary depicts the daily life of gangs in the South Bronx. It deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known...
- 2023
Jacir
Jacir62023HD
A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh...
- 1935
Love Me Forever
Love Me Forever4.81935HD
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
- 2012
Mai Ratima
Mai Ratima7.42012HD
Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable...
- 2023
Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis
Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis82023HD
Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new...
- 1999
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Love Will Tear Us Apart6.41999HD
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...
- 2012
Stealing Africa
Stealing Africa8.92012HD
Zambia's copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia's copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years,...
- 1993
Flyin' Cut Sleeves
Flyin' Cut Sleeves4.51993HD
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted...
- 1951
Chicago Calling
Chicago Calling71951HD
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives...