Poverty Movies

Dario, a young lower-class, graduated from a management training academy is convinced to be prepared to achieve fortune. In search of a job, he gets...

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Hoping to give her daughter a better life, a single mother decided to work part-time in a convenience store. Yet, the lack of night-time child care...

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh...

Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated conditions and trying to get by each day with whatever...

In the township of Mphopomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, Siyabonga, a young man, puts up theatre plays. When he hears about a movie...

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...

The story of Feng Shu Guang, that ends up in a small village named Shibawan. Initially a man, wants to help fight with poverty in this area. It...

Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were Silvio Rodriguez performs for the marginal...

Riles is a documentary about the life of a riles resident, Eddie, in a squatter area along the railroad tracks within the downtrodden section of...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...

One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

A man on parole, a struggling mother, and a pair of drug dealing brothers each become part of a dizzying multiplicity of plots, but one story. "The...

Adonai is an lunatic poet. He lives in an abandoned neighborhood of Caracas where he runs an underground radio called "Radio Pandemonium", he lives...