Poverty Movies

A father's journey through a trial that traps him in a decision to conceal the truth—no matter the cost.

Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness....

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

Shot almost in its entirety in the corridors of the Villa 21, one of Buenas Aires' most well-known shanty-towns, Estrellas (Stars) revolves around...

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...

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

Ranka is a street orphan, all of ten years old. He makes manjha used in kite flying for a living, and he has to take care of his three-year-old...

On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry...

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

Celina works at a remote tollbooth on a desert road, few days before Christmas, her father dies and Celina becomes a door-to-door encyclopedia...

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

Documentary about what makes a house a home.

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

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.

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who...

We invite you to watch the play "The Moromete Family", adapted by Robert Popescu from the novels of Marin Preda.