Poverty Movies

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them...

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

A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

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...

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

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...

In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams begin. Ping-pong is in Ben's heart, but he can't...

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...

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...

Soledad, Mattias, Bahar, Facundo, and Josselin were born in 1976 and were the first generation of young people to grow up in Husby. Now, almost 30...

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who...

J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever...

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to...

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

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...

A stranger arrives in a remote Himalayan valley seeking to provide access to education to the community.

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.