Movies (155) tagged by 'Poverty'
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Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007)
Two small-town sisters have a hard time adjusting to life in the big city.
Trading Places (1983)
Mortimer and Randolph Duke are commodity brokers who enjoy a little wager now and then. For the latest bet, Randolph believes they can take a common criminal a...
The Wash (2001)
The Wash is an action-comedy starring Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. As mismatched roommates working at a car wash, they come together to rescue thei...
Ask the Dust (2006)
L.A. in the early 1930's: racism, poverty, and disease color the Bunker Hill neighborhood where Arturo Bandini, a lover of men and beasts alike, has arrived fr...
Crooklyn (1994)
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Bro...
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) (1961)
Director Daniel Petrie's highly acclaimed drama is a seminal portrait of African American life in the mid-1950s, based on Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking ...
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Michael Moore: thorn in the side of corporate America, scourge of the political hypocrisy and all-round ass-kicker of those that need a boot in the behind... ...
Lilja 4-ever (2003)
Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in a poor village in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls ...
The Poker House (2008)
When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members...
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the G...
Explicit Ills (2009)
Accomplished indie actor Mark Webber (STORYTELLING, THE HOTTEST STATE) makes an ambitious debut behind the camera with EXPLICIT ILLS. Set in the same Philadelph...
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
In the 19th century a woman (Rie Miyazawa) helps a widowed samurai (Hiroyuki Sanada) who must kill a rebellious swordsman.
Samson and Delilah (2009) (2009)
Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a ...
Sleep Dealer (2008)
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to con...
Mall Girls (2009)
Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves sponsors for ne...
Strapped (1993)
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs accross serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate ...
Cosmic Sex (2015)
A young man Kripa who is on the run from sex and violence one night when he meets a woman Sadhavi who strangely resembles his dead mother. She gives him shelter...
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Il cinema come sollievo dell'anima ! Convinto che in un periodo difficile si debbano girare soltanto film drammatici, un giovane regista cinematografico, duran...
Carbon Copy (1981)
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community...
The Man Without a Past (2002)
An unidentified man gets severely beaten by a trio of thugs and ends up in the hospital, where he dies--but suddenly reawakens without knowing who he is. He w...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In pre-WWI Brooklyn, young Francie struggles to keep her idealism alive in the face of grinding poverty and the comedies and tragedies of ordinary life. Very c...
Life Stinks (1991)
Mel Brooks moves from genre parody to social satire in this tale of a greedy billionaire (played by Brooks himself) who bets another tycoon th...
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray, Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten who's last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Boot Polish (1958)
The story of two destitute children, Bhola and his younger sister Belu, who beg in the slums in return for the shelter provided by the abusive Kamla. Their ne...
Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986)
Based on an Urdu novel by Rajinder Singh Bedi, this story is about Rano, (Hema Malini) a woman abused by her mother-in-law and husband, Triloka (Kulbhushan Ka...
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Raimond Gaita (1946 - ) comes of age in Frogmore, Victoria in the early 1960s. His parents are immigrants: his Romanian father farms; his German mother, Christi...
The Object of Beauty (1991)
Charming comedy about how a couple's relationship waivers in tandem with the disposition of their statuette. With no fixed abode, Jake and Tina live in hotels ...
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
A passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her...
Battle Angel Alita (1993)
This movie takes place in a distant future, and is the story of a the young cyborg Gally, who is found on a scrapheap by the Cyberdoctor Daisuke Ido, who rebild...
Lula O Filho do Brasil (2010)
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's his...
Days of Heaven (1979)
Terrence Malick's follow-up to BADLANDS is an exquisitely photographed story of a group of early-20th-century itinerant workers who find themselves entangled ...
Where God Left His Shoes (2007)
A failed boxer (Leguizamo) struggles to find a job and an apartment for his family on Christmas Eve.
Powaqqatsi (1988)
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
The Glass Castle (2017)
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the c...
The End of Poverty? (2008)
Against the background of the East End of London, first time filmmaker Nicola Collins explores the fascinating complexity of the lives of her father and his fr...
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2005)
Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chron...
Oliver Twist (1948)
Roman Polanski directs this remake of the Charles Dickens classic where the orphan, Oliver Twist, meets up with the Artful Dodger in London. ...
Crack House (1989)
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten invo...
Life, Above All (2010)
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
'Sciuscià' (1946)
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have be...
The Florida Project (2017)
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebelliou...
Little Man What Now (1934)
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire marr...
Le petit poucet (2001)
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find th...
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
A young boy named James comes of age in 1940s Louisiana and grapples with what it means to be black during a time of racism and poverty. James's mother accompan...
The Lady in the Van (2015)
A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.
Bumm Bumm Bole (2010)
Pinu loses his sister Rimzim's shoes so they both decide to share a pair of shoes until their father has saved enough money to buy a new pair.
The Immigrant (1917)
Charlie is on his way to the USA. He wins in a card game, puts the money in Edna's bag (she and her sick mother have been robbed of everything). When he retriev...
Sunlight Jr. (2013)
A Florida couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs.
The Girl (2011)
Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) is hospitalized while Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) sets out to prove her innocent of murder.
Ankur (1977)
Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlo...
The Comedians (1967)
Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink i...
Trumbo (2007)
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Com...
Dil Tera Diwana (1962)
Wayward, brash, and disobedient Mohan (Shammi Kapoor) is sent by his angry dad Diwan Badriprasad (Ulhas) to a retired army captain Dayaram (Om Prakash) to learn...
Savage Messiah (1972)
Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
The Lower Depths (1936)
The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization ...
The Forgotten Village (1941)
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
The Brave (1997)
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could g...
Noble (2014)
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Cuore sacro (2005)
Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.
Dive! (2010)
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the ...
In Football We Trust (2015)
"In Football We Trust" captures a snapshot in time amid the rise of the Pacific Islander presence in the NFL. Presenting a new take on the American immigrant st...
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
A documentary on Henry Darger, visionary artist, janitor, and novelist.
Body and Soul (1947)
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidenta...
Lamerica (1994)
Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an ...
Keetje Tippel (1975)
The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the cor...
The Young Karl Marx (2017)
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
The Prodigal Son (1988)
The Prodigal Son, Jacob, leaves his father's farm to seek his fortune in the city. Encountering many temptations, Jacob squanders his inheritance. Reduced to li...
The Pact (2006)
A gritty, provocative true-life story of three friends from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who made a pact in high school to find a ...
Streets of Plenty (2010)
With the 2010 Olympics approaching, will the world get to know Vancouver's darkest secret? 'Streets of Plenty' chronicles one man's perilous journey to live in ...
Japan A Story of Love and Hate (2008)
Naoki once had it all - the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. Then the bubb...
Memoria del saqueo (2004)
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world'...
The Fifteen Streets (1989)
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher o...
Blood on the Leaves (2016)
A young man from Philadelphia is grappling with the sins of his past as he buries a body far from the city in an old Pennsylvania logging plot. In the midst of ...
The Insect Woman (1963)
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-inter...
China 21 (2002)
How are ordinary people adapting to China's transformation - market economies, globalization, small families? Using compact digital video gear filmmakers Ruby Y...
The Big Sellout (2007)
The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business es...
A Darwinian Future (2014)
A young man walks through his decaying city to approach a hooded figure, and telepathically they exchange funds. He is threatened by a police android and tries ...
Lan feng zheng (1993)
On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere...
Stealing a Nation (2004)
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then ex...
Land and Shade (2015)
After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into...
Top of the Town (1937)
Diana Borden (Doris Lloyd, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "...
Bato: The Gen. Ronald Dela Rosa Story (2019)
A true to life story of a police officer who became the top cop in Philippines when he was appointed by his master Duterte, the current President of the Philipp...
Ignatius of Loyola (2016)
'If you could hear the voice of God, would you want to keep it secret?' A historical drama based on the memoirs of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit...
Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919)
Mrs. Wiggs, a loving mother whose husband has abandoned her, supports her many children and lives in hope of her husband's return.
Bashu gharibeye koochak (1989)
Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged wo...
When Borat Came to Town (2008)
A look at what happened after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) was filmed in the Romanian village of G...
8 Murders a Day (2011)
The greatest human rights disaster in the world is happening 10 feet from the U.S.A. An investigation of the political, social, and economic forces that have le...
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
The Peppers - Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - are a poor family (the six of them sleep in a total of four beds in two r...
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives ac...
Imprisoned (2015)
A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate. All parts involved, inside and outside, will have to deal...
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Aesop's Fable: Happy Valley (1952)
A young boy asks an old man why the valley they live in is such a beautiful utopia and is called Happy Valley, and the old man explains it is because everyone t...
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
Sam Shepard's coming of age drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk, and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of the...
Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me (2020)
On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other ...
Kiga kaikyô (1965)
Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years h...
Tizoc (1957)
A white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.
The Girl in the Café (2005)
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is teste...
Sergio Larrain, el instante eterno (2021)
Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio Larraín, who developed a unique and enigmatic way of constructing images, became a photographic legend. He captured the edges...
Land Without Bread (1933)
A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasant...
About Sunny (2011)
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Hide and Seek (2013)
A missing brother. Hide and seeks codes. A shocking truth for two different families and the struggle to save their families from someone who is already living ...
A Life in the Balance (1955)
In Mexico City, a working-poor single-father is mistaken for a serial killer by the local cops but the man's son stumbles upon the real killer and tries to...
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't re...
The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to ma...
His Trysting Place (1914)
Charlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The tw...
Cabrini (2024)
After witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to ...
Barren Lives (1963)
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land...
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
The Execution of Julie Ann Mabry (2009)
When her mother is murdered by her father, Julie Ann Mabry is confronted by a life of hardship and poverty. Taken in by her Evangelical relatives, she begins to...
The Women of Brewster Place (1990)
Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, which deals with several strong-willed women who live in a rundown housing project on Brewster Place in an unidentified eas...
Miseria e nobiltà (1954)
"Miseria e Nobiltà" tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a ...
Catacombe (2018)
When his gambling debt is claimed by a match fixing syndicate, Jermaine Slagter, a professional football player from professional football's lowest tier, m...
Ryakushô: renzoku shasatsuma (1975)
A visual document of the life of serial killer Norio Nagayama, focusing entirely of his living environment with some narrated biographical information.
People of the Po Valley (1947)
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
Field Niggas (2015)
'The combination is simple: a lot of slow motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people's conversation and interview. This strai...
Hermanos/Siblings (2017)
HERMANOS/SIBLINGS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an America...
Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958)
The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they ...
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
A gifted young man is caught up in gang life.
Invisible City: The Houston Housing Crisis (1978)
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Men of Burden: Pedaling Towards a Horizon (2006)
Set in Pondicherry, India, the documentary uncovers the story of disappearing cycle rickshaw drivers living in abject poverty. Over time, the number of cycle ri...
The Old Curiosity Shop (1984)
The classic fictional tale of the adventures of Little Nell and her grandfather have been brought to the screen in this high quality entertaining animated featu...
Friendly Fire: Making an Urban Legend (2003)
John Singleton directed the movie Boyz n the Hood at the age of 22, from a script that he wrote. Friendly Fire: Making an Urban Legend documents how the film ca...
Welcome Nowhere (2013)
Narrated by multi-Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, Welcome Nowhere tells the true story of a community of Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) struggling t...
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1994)
Filmmakers Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond document Philadelphia teachers facing challenges at an inner-city school.
Aaina (1977)
Retired Ram Shastri is an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin who lives in a small Indian village and has a huge family which consists of his wife, Savitri, five daughter...
Mundane History (2009)
Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of...
American Hollow (1999)
This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100 years.
Ila Ayn (1957)
A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great num...
Oliver Twist (1982)
The orphan Oliver Twist runs away and joins up with a group of thieves under the supervision of Fagin. Will Oliver be a thief or live an honest life with Mr. Br...
The Other Side of Immigration (2009)
Based on over 700 interviews in Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, The Other Side of Immigration asks why so m...
India's Forgotten People (2020)
The history and story of India's proud but largely forgotten Gadia Lohar community is for the first time sensitively investigated and revealed.
The Darlene Chronicles (1995)
The filmed account of a poor woman and her family in the Appalachian region of Pennsylvania.
America Lost (2019)
America Lost is a feature documentary that explores life in three "forgotten American cities"-Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, Cali...
Free of Eden (1999)
A black girl seeks a tutor, hoping a good education will help her escape from poor housing projects.
Curse of the Sin Eater (2024)
A poor construction worker makes a deal with a dying business mogul to inherit billions only to discover that he has also been cursed by the man's terrifyi...
Kalandar Sogugu (2016)
"Cold of Kalandar" pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from m...
Blue Baby (2024)
Blue Baby is a film that follows eight incarcerated youth through a prison alternative known as Boys Town. Their story challenges what people have believed abou...
Baavgai Bolohson (2024)
A poor but prideful teenage boy Ulzii determines to win a Physics competition for a scholarship, but his illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside and le...
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