Poverty Movies

Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay,...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the...

Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers...

Like Don Quixote, Zivan Pujic Jimmy fights for his annual punk festival. A film about failure, ambition, friendship and clinging to your dreams....

Against a backdrop of war and poverty, Out of the Ashes, traces the extraordinary journey of a team of young, Afghan men, as they chase a seemingly...

A stranger arrives in a remote Himalayan valley seeking to provide access to education to the community.

The film is about poor children and 'The Kids' Diner', a place where they can go to get free or cheap food.

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...

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity in the Williams...

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns....

The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam...

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of...

A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.