Poverty Movies
- 1952
Europe '51
Europe '517.41952HD
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in...
- 1959
Cry Tough
Cry Tough5.81959HD
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
- 1987
Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror7.31987HD
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a...
- 1989
Crack House
Crack House5.21989HD
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have...
- 1952
Carrie
Carrie6.41952HD
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...
- 2021
Three Songs for Benazir
Three Songs for Benazir6.22021HD
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance...
- 1948
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama7.11948HD
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...
- 1963
America America
America America6.9491963HD
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
- 1952
A Place Close to Heaven
A Place Close to Heaven8.21952HD
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired...
- 1989
Isle of Flowers
Isle of Flowers8.11989HD
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers...
- 1999
Rosetta
Rosetta7.1891999HD
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is...
- 2020
Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me
Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me102020HD
On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin...
- 2017
Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman7.52017HD
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.
- 1933
Parachute Jumper
Parachute Jumper6.11933HD
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
- 1989
The Fifteen Streets
The Fifteen Streets6.251989HD
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary,...
- 2024
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon7.52024HD
Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.
- 1952
Mother
Mother6.91952HD
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
- 1959
Street of Love and Hope
Street of Love and Hope6.61959HD
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched...
- 2015
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire102015HD
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...
- 1968
Strong Women, Weak Men
Strong Women, Weak Men01968HD
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...