Poverty Movies

Two Indigenous Latina American bestfriends, Mousie and Sad Girl live in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Indigenous Hispanic-American neighborhood....

14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.

BISCUT (HOTSTAR-DISNEY RELEASE -2022) In an Indian village ruled by muscle and money, one man sparks a revolution without guns or bullets by...

In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as...

Angela and Jessie are best friends intent on taking a wild beach trip, but when their roommate loses all of their money in a drug scam, the girls --...

Shunned and ignored for years by society in general, a lonely man develops a new ability, product of his own limitations: his ugliness, filthiness...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an...

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and...

After agreeing to work as a hitman for a dangerous mafioso, Simon faces a moral dilemma when he rescues a man, who happens to have a shocking story...

In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner...

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM...

A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and...

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile...

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...

Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves...

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart,...

A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite...

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...