Poverty Movies
- 1998
Megacities
Megacities6.7941998HD
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
- 1952
Mother
Mother6.91952HD
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
- 1948
You the Rich
You the Rich7.51948HD
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
- 1997
Lawn Dogs
Lawn Dogs7.11997HD
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to...
- 1995
Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen6.61995HD
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as...
- 1961
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships7.11961HD
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.
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music61939HD
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...
- 1998
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles8.11998HD
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...
- 1987
Lute: Forge On or Die
Lute: Forge On or Die5.8061987HD
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...
- 1961
Aimless Bullet
Aimless Bullet7.11961HD
Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...
- 1994
Mi Vida Loca
Mi Vida Loca7.0161994HD
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by...
- 1957
Tizoc
Tizoc7.31957HD
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
- 1986
Combat Shock
Combat Shock6.41986HD
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban...
- 1991
Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff6.71991HD
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...
- 2014
Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs6.42014HD
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...
- 1977
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe7.3071977HD
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...
- 1952
Carrie
Carrie6.4321952HD
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...
- 2000
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets6.62000HD
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...
- 2016
Class Divide
Class Divide5.92016HD
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...
- 1930
Westfront 1918
Westfront 19186.71930HD
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...