Poverty Movies

  • 1998
    Megacities

    Megacities

    Megacities

    6.7941998HD

    Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

    Megacities
  • 1952
    Mother

    Mother

    Mother

    6.91952HD

    A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

    Mother
  • 1948
    You the Rich

    You the Rich

    You the Rich

    7.51948HD

    Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

    You the Rich
  • 1997
    Lawn Dogs

    Lawn Dogs

    Lawn Dogs

    7.11997HD

    In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to...

    Lawn Dogs
  • 1995
    Bandit Queen

    Bandit Queen

    Bandit Queen

    6.61995HD

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

    Bandit Queen
  • 1961
    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships

    7.11961HD

    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.

    Pigs and Battleships
  • 1939
    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    61939HD

    The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

    They Shall Have Music
  • 1998
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    8.11998HD

    Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life...

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • 1987
    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    5.8061987HD

    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...

    Lute: Forge On or Die
  • 1961
    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    7.11961HD

    Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...

    Aimless Bullet
  • 1994
    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    7.0161994HD

    Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by...

    Mi Vida Loca
  • 1957
    Tizoc

    Tizoc

    Tizoc

    7.31957HD

    An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

    Tizoc
  • 1986
    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

    6.41986HD

    A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban...

    Combat Shock
  • 1991
    Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff

    6.71991HD

    Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working...

    Riff-Raff
  • 2014
    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    6.42014HD

    An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better...

    Stray Dogs
  • 1977
    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    7.3071977HD

    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...

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
  • 1952
    Carrie

    Carrie

    Carrie

    6.4321952HD

    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...

    Carrie
  • 2000
    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    6.62000HD

    Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his...

    Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
  • 2016
    Class Divide

    Class Divide

    Class Divide

    5.92016HD

    A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...

    Class Divide
  • 1930
    Westfront 1918

    Westfront 1918

    Westfront 1918

    6.71930HD

    A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a...

    Westfront 1918