Movies: Poverty
- 1917
The Immigrant (1917)
The Immigrant7.21917HD
An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York....
- 1988
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free5.81988HD
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. ...
- 1951
Miracle in Milan (1951)
Miracle in Milan7.31951HD
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...
- 1963
The Insect Woman (1963)
The Insect Woman7.41963HD
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....
- 2018
Never Goin' Back (2018)
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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 ...
- 2020
Hidden Away (2020)
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 poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized k...
- 1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn7.61945HD
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...
- 1991
Riff-Raff (1991)
Riff-Raff6.71991HD
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...
- 1984
The Holy Innocents (1984)
The Holy Innocents7.71984HD
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...
- 1947
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
One Wonderful Sunday7.31947HD
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 ...
- 1950
The King of the Neighborhood (1950)
The King of the Neighborhood8.21950HD
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....
- 2010
Black Venus (2010)
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 of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks...
- 1948
You the Rich (1948)
You the Rich7.51948HD
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....
- 1995
Bandit Queen (1995)
Bandit Queen6.51995HD
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...
- 2017
Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
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....
- 1955
Shree 420 (1955)
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 penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him....
- 1963
America America (1963)
America America6.91963HD
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America....
- 1921
The Blot (1921)
The Blot6.51921HD
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...
- 1957
Tizoc (1957)
Tizoc7.31957HD
An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness....
- 1996
Cyclo (1996)
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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 ...