Poverty Movies

  • 2000
    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    6.62000HD

    Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his...

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
  • 2000
    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    6.62000HD

    Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

    Blackboards
  • 1979
    Lady Oscar

    Lady Oscar

    Lady Oscar

    5.41979HD

    Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...

    Lady Oscar
  • 1957
    Tizoc

    Tizoc

    Tizoc

    7.31957HD

    An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

    Tizoc
  • 1952
    Carrie

    Carrie

    Carrie

    6.41952HD

    Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly...

    Carrie
  • 1987
    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    5.8061987HD

    In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more...

    Lute: Forge On or Die
  • 2001
    Poetical Refugee

    Poetical Refugee

    Poetical Refugee

    6.52001HD

    Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group,...

    Poetical Refugee
  • 1949
    The Great Madcap

    The Great Madcap

    The Great Madcap

    7.11949HD

    Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

    The Great Madcap
  • 2023
    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    7.62023HD

    Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of...

    Abang Adik
  • 1933
    Man's Castle

    Man's Castle

    Man's Castle

    6.81933HD

    Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

    Man's Castle
  • 1961
    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    7.11961HD

    Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...

    Aimless Bullet
  • 2025
    Suburban Story

    Suburban Story

    Suburban Story

    02025HD

    Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burglary to provide for his daughter. The narrative...

    Suburban Story
  • 1952
    A Place Close to Heaven

    A Place Close to Heaven

    A Place Close to Heaven

    8.21952HD

    On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired...

    A Place Close to Heaven
  • 1994
    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    71994HD

    Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by...

    Mi Vida Loca
  • 1967
    The Whisperers

    The Whisperers

    The Whisperers

    6.41967HD

    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...

    The Whisperers
  • 1965
    Chronicle of a Boy Alone

    Chronicle of a Boy Alone

    Chronicle of a Boy Alone

    6.71965HD

    The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.

    Chronicle of a Boy Alone
  • 2000
    The Bench

    The Bench

    The Bench

    6.82000HD

    Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job...

    The Bench
  • 1983
    Sugar Cane Alley

    Sugar Cane Alley

    Sugar Cane Alley

    6.81983HD

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

    Sugar Cane Alley
  • 2009
    The Other Bank

    The Other Bank

    The Other Bank

    5.92009HD

    Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil...

    The Other Bank
  • 1976
    The Bricklayers

    The Bricklayers

    The Bricklayers

    6.41976HD

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

    The Bricklayers