Poverty Movies

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...

As Niagara Falls transformed from honeymoon capital of the world to Las Vegas North, corporate hotel chains and casinos cast a long shadow over the...

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...

Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich...

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who...

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

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

Shot over three years, Pariah Dog paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they...

Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their...

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

When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her grieving parents are left to pick up the pieces of their once perfect...

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...

Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay,...

In the form of a posthumous letter to Storck, using clippings from the original 'Borinage' film, the director paints a personal picture about a...

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In...

Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in:...

Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of...

Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-town filled with broken dreams and addiction.