Poverty Movies
- 1979
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar5.31979HD
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...
- 1930
Westfront 1918
Westfront 19186.71930HD
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...
- 1933
Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread7.11933HD
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...
- 2014
The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime7.62014HD
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in...
- 1952
Europe '51
Europe '517.3571952HD
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...
- 2001
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb5.52001HD
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try...
- 2014
Jimmy's Hall
Jimmy's Hall6.72014HD
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
- 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.
- 1956
Street of Shame
Street of Shame7.61956HD
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
- 1961
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships7.0351961HD
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
- 2010
With Love... from the Age of Reason
With Love... from the Age of Reason5.472010HD
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven....
- 1955
Shree 420
Shree 4207.51955HD
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and...
- 1940
Primrose Path
Primrose Path6.51940HD
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother....
- 1981
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue6.8541981HD
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky...
- 1996
Cyclo
Cyclo7.11996HD
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a...
- 1984
The Holy Innocents
The Holy Innocents7.81984HD
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy...
- 1952
Carrie
Carrie6.5431952HD
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...
- 2010
Black Venus
Black Venus6.72010HD
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...
- 2020
Hidden Away
Hidden Away7.52020HD
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the...
- 1989
The Dull-Ice Flower
The Dull-Ice Flower8.21989HD
Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is...