Poverty Movies

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...

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US...

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities.

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.

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as...

Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and...

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Fang Xu Shi lives with many other immigrants around the film sets of Hengdian, relying on the ongoing productions to hire him temporarily as an...

The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam...

The faces, the gestures and speech of beggars, madmen and revelers passing through the streets of São Paulo. The sounds and images are...

A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...

Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Ratna is married off into a rich family and leads a happy existence with her husband. But the doings of a relative and her husband's tragic death...

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and...

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.