Poverty Movies

  • 1960
    The Cloud-Capped Star

    The Cloud-Capped Star

    The Cloud-Capped Star

    7.31960HD

    A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

    The Cloud-Capped Star
  • 1959
    Street of Love and Hope

    Street of Love and Hope

    Street of Love and Hope

    6.5881959HD

    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...

    Street of Love and Hope
  • 2017
    95

    95

    95

    4.52017HD

    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...

    95
  • 2024
    Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    7.52024HD

    Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.

    Fly Me to the Moon
  • 2004
    Keane

    Keane

    Keane

    6.12004HD

    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...

    Keane
  • 2022
    Biscut

    Biscut

    Biscut

    02022HD

    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...

    Biscut
  • 1954
    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes

    7.71954HD

    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...

    Twenty-Four Eyes
  • 1961
    Accattone

    Accattone

    Accattone

    7.7521961HD

    A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

    Accattone
  • 2023
    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    7.6292023HD

    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...

    Abang Adik
  • 1999
    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    6.41999HD

    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...

    Love Will Tear Us Apart
  • 2011
    Le Havre

    Le Havre

    Le Havre

    7.0282011HD

    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...

    Le Havre
  • 2003
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    7.72003HD

    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • 2014
    Jimmy's Hall

    Jimmy's Hall

    Jimmy's Hall

    6.7372014HD

    Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

    Jimmy's Hall
  • 1952
    Carrie

    Carrie

    Carrie

    6.4341952HD

    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...

    Carrie
  • 1961
    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    7.11961HD

    Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...

    Aimless Bullet
  • 1998
    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    7.7151998HD

    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...

    The Rose Seller
  • 2016
    Laia

    Laia

    Laia

    4.52016HD

    "Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the...

    Laia
  • 1961
    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships

    7.11961HD

    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.

    Pigs and Battleships
  • 2013
    American Winter

    American Winter

    American Winter

    72013HD

    Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...

    American Winter
  • 2018
    Never Goin' Back

    Never Goin' Back

    Never Goin' Back

    6.12018HD

    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 --...

    Never Goin' Back