Poverty Movies

  • 2005
    Cold Showers

    Cold Showers

    Cold Showers

    5.5432005HD

    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....

    Cold Showers
  • 2012
    Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place

    Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place

    Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place

    02012HD

    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...

    Escape from the World's Most Dangerous Place
  • 1974
    Faith, Hope and Charity

    Faith, Hope and Charity

    Faith, Hope and Charity

    6.21974HD

    Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

    Faith, Hope and Charity
  • 2012
    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    82012HD

    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...

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
  • 2015
    Ghost Town to Havana

    Ghost Town to Havana

    Ghost Town to Havana

    02015HD

    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...

    Ghost Town to Havana
  • 2020
    Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

    Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

    Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

    102020HD

    On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin...

    Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me
  • 2015
    Good Funk

    Good Funk

    Good Funk

    02015HD

    Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...

    Good Funk
  • 2014
    Something Better to Come

    Something Better to Come

    Something Better to Come

    6.72014HD

    Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world:...

    Something Better to Come
  • 1995
    Bandit Queen

    Bandit Queen

    Bandit Queen

    6.61995HD

    Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as...

    Bandit Queen
  • 1996
    Cyclo

    Cyclo

    Cyclo

    71996HD

    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...

    Cyclo
  • 1998
    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    7.6881998HD

    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...

    The Rose Seller
  • 1980
    80 Blocks from Tiffany's

    80 Blocks from Tiffany's

    80 Blocks from Tiffany's

    6.5871980HD

    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...

    80 Blocks from Tiffany's
  • 2023
    Jacir

    Jacir

    Jacir

    62023HD

    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...

    Jacir
  • 1935
    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Forever

    4.81935HD

    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.

    Love Me Forever
  • 2012
    Mai Ratima

    Mai Ratima

    Mai Ratima

    7.42012HD

    Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable...

    Mai Ratima
  • 2023
    Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis

    Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis

    Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis

    82023HD

    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...

    Working But Poor - The Middle Class in Crisis
  • 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
  • 2012
    Stealing Africa

    Stealing Africa

    Stealing Africa

    8.92012HD

    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,...

    Stealing Africa
  • 1993
    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    4.51993HD

    FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted...

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves
  • 1951
    Chicago Calling

    Chicago Calling

    Chicago Calling

    71951HD

    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...

    Chicago Calling