Poverty Movies
- 1960
The Cloud-Capped Star
The Cloud-Capped Star7.31960HD
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
- 1959
Street of Love and Hope
Street of Love and Hope6.5881959HD
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched...
- 2017
95
954.52017HD
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world...
- 2024
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon7.52024HD
Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.
- 2004
Keane
Keane6.12004HD
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority...
- 2022
Biscut
Biscut02022HD
Biscut is a powerful film on the state of politics in Uttar Pradesh and offers a gritty and hard-hitting take on the treatment of the backward...
- 1954
Twenty-Four Eyes
Twenty-Four Eyes7.71954HD
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...
- 1961
Accattone
Accattone7.7521961HD
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
- 2023
Abang Adik
Abang Adik7.6292023HD
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of...
- 1999
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Love Will Tear Us Apart6.41999HD
The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will...
- 2011
Le Havre
Le Havre7.0282011HD
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a...
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks7.72003HD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...
- 2014
Jimmy's Hall
Jimmy's Hall6.7372014HD
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
- 1952
Carrie
Carrie6.4341952HD
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...
- 1961
Aimless Bullet
Aimless Bullet7.11961HD
Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...
- 1998
The Rose Seller
The Rose Seller7.7151998HD
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her...
- 2016
Laia
Laia4.52016HD
"Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the...
- 1961
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships7.11961HD
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.
- 2013
American Winter
American Winter72013HD
Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...
- 2018
Never Goin' Back
Never Goin' Back6.12018HD
Angela and Jessie are best friends intent on taking a wild beach trip, but when their roommate loses all of their money in a drug scam, the girls --...