Movies: Poverty

  • 1917
    The Immigrant

    The Immigrant (1917)

    The Immigrant

    7.21917HD

    An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York....

    The Immigrant
  • 1988
    El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free

    El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)

    El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free

    5.81988HD

    This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. ...

    El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
  • 1951
    Miracle in Milan

    Miracle in Milan (1951)

    Miracle in Milan

    7.31951HD

    An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in post-war Milan, helping them build a shanty town. When they discover oil, he receives a magical dove from...

    Miracle in Milan
  • 1963
    The Insect Woman

    The Insect Woman (1963)

    The Insect Woman

    7.41963HD

    A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life....

    The Insect Woman
  • 2018
    Never Goin' Back

    Never Goin' Back (2018)

    Never Goin' Back

    62018HD

    Angela and Jessie are two best friends in love intent on taking a birthday beach trip, but when Jessie's brother loses all his rent money in a drug scam, the girls—blissfully stoned—go to increasingly daring and absurd lengths to get enough money to ...

    Never Goin' Back
  • 2020
    Hidden Away

    Hidden Away (2020)

    Hidden Away

    7.52020HD

    The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized k...

    Hidden Away
  • 1945
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    7.61945HD

    In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the on...

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • 1991
    Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff (1991)

    Riff-Raff

    6.71991HD

    Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment be...

    Riff-Raff
  • 1984
    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents (1984)

    The Holy Innocents

    7.71984HD

    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 landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their w...

    The Holy Innocents
  • 1947
    One Wonderful Sunday

    One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

    One Wonderful Sunday

    7.31947HD

    Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his ...

    One Wonderful Sunday
  • 1950
    The King of the Neighborhood

    The King of the Neighborhood (1950)

    The King of the Neighborhood

    8.21950HD

    A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....

    The King of the Neighborhood
  • 2010
    Black Venus

    Black Venus (2010)

    Black Venus

    6.72010HD

    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 of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks...

    Black Venus
  • 1948
    You the Rich

    You the Rich (1948)

    You the Rich

    7.51948HD

    Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....

    You the Rich
  • 1995
    Bandit Queen

    Bandit Queen (1995)

    Bandit Queen

    6.51995HD

    Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraor...

    Bandit Queen
  • 2017
    Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

    Cuba and the Cameraman

    7.52017HD

    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades....

    Cuba and the Cameraman
  • 1955
    Shree 420

    Shree 420 (1955)

    Shree 420

    7.51955HD

    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 penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him....

    Shree 420
  • 1963
    America America

    America America (1963)

    America America

    6.91963HD

    A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America....

    America America
  • 1921
    The Blot

    The Blot (1921)

    The Blot

    6.51921HD

    Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for bea...

    The Blot
  • 1957
    Tizoc

    Tizoc (1957)

    Tizoc

    7.31957HD

    An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness....

    Tizoc
  • 1996
    Cyclo

    Cyclo (1996)

    Cyclo

    71996HD

    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 living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf ...

    Cyclo