Poverty Movies
- 1963
America America
America America6.871963HD
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
- 1979
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar5.31979HD
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...
- 1933
Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread7.11933HD
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...
- 2017
Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman7.52017HD
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
- 1952
Europe '51
Europe '517.3571952HD
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in...
- 1975
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light7.21975HD
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
- 2001
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb5.52001HD
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...
- 2014
Jimmy's Hall
Jimmy's Hall6.72014HD
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
- 1956
Street of Shame
Street of Shame7.61956HD
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
- 1961
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships7.0351961HD
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
- 2010
Black Venus
Black Venus6.72010HD
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...
- 1955
Shree 420
Shree 4207.51955HD
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and...
- 1998
The Rose Seller
The Rose Seller7.71998HD
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her...
- 1981
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue6.8541981HD
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky...
- 2018
Five Fingers for Marseilles
Five Fingers for Marseilles5.62018HD
Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one...
- 1996
Cyclo
Cyclo7.11996HD
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a...
- 1984
The Holy Innocents
The Holy Innocents7.81984HD
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy...
- 1952
Carrie
Carrie6.5431952HD
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...
- 2014
Noble
Noble6.52014HD
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
- 1987
Lute: Forge On or Die
Lute: Forge On or Die5.91987HD
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...