Poverty Movies
- 1985
Anna Firling's Roads
Anna Firling's Roads7.81985HD
A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.
- 1998
Megacities
Megacities6.81998HD
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
- 2007
Using
Using6.42007HD
Documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao examines the complicated relationship between two drug addicts who become dealers over the course of three years. Shot...
- 2021
Bangla Surf Girls
Bangla Surf Girls8.72021HD
Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards...
- 2005
Darwin's Nightmare
Darwin's Nightmare6.8632005HD
Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of...
- 2016
Class Divide
Class Divide5.9382016HD
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...
- 1974
Faith, Hope and Charity
Faith, Hope and Charity6.4291974HD
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
- 2010
Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes02010HD
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...
- 2012
Stealing Africa
Stealing Africa8.92012HD
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,...
- 1952
Soledad's Shawl
Soledad's Shawl6.11952HD
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself...
- 1980
Black Pete – No, You're It
Black Pete – No, You're It01980HD
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal...
- 2011
Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon
Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon6.12011HD
A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the American rock band, Kings of Leon.
- 1982
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist5.51982HD
This animated version of the classic Charles Dickens book faithfully follows the adventures of the young orphan Oliver Twist.
- 1933
Wild Boys of the Road
Wild Boys of the Road6.8371933HD
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...
- 2006
Retrieval
Retrieval5.92006HD
19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal...
- 1994
Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class4.11994HD
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...
- 2021
Danube
Danube52021HD
The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders...
- 1951
Victims of Sin
Victims of Sin6.5631951HD
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
- 2009
Mall Girls
Mall Girls5.42009HD
Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves...
- 1981
Oh The Cruel World
Oh The Cruel World51981HD
Ratna is married off into a rich family and leads a happy existence with her husband. But the doings of a relative and her husband's tragic death...