Poverty Movies
- 1950
The King of the Neighborhood
The King of the Neighborhood8.31950HD
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
- 1932
Mickey's Good Deed
Mickey's Good Deed6.31932HD
Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich...
- 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.
- 2020
Black Thoughts
Black Thoughts5.52020HD
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a...
- 1964
Campeón del barrio
Campeón del barrio5.81964HD
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...
- 1977
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe7.31977HD
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except...
- 2020
Hidden Away
Hidden Away7.5452020HD
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the...
- 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.
- 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...
- 1976
The Bricklayers
The Bricklayers6.41976HD
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...
- 1953
Pepe El Toro
Pepe El Toro6.31953HD
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of...
- 1991
The Ox
The Ox6.4691991HD
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and...
- 1959
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa6.81959HD
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
- 1998
Megacities
Megacities6.81998HD
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
- 2010
Miracle Fish
Miracle Fish6.22010HD
8 year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends bully him, he sneaks off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go...
- 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.
- 2017
Beauty Mark
Beauty Mark5.8572017HD
Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is evicted from her house. Now she has to get money...
- 1990
Freeze, Die, Come to Life
Freeze, Die, Come to Life6.3131990HD
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the...
- 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...
- 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...