Poverty Movies

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.

A domestic drama about a young family facing a financial crisis.

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...

A short documentary following Stanoje Ćebić, an unemployed Yugoslav metalworker and self-proclaimed Marxist, as he moves through Belgrade...

Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable...

After agreeing to work as a hitman for a dangerous mafioso, Simon faces a moral dilemma when he rescues a man, who happens to have a shocking story...

A poor girl struggles to buy new trending sandals.

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was...

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the...

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...

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM...

The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother....

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay,...

Terry is a homeless drifter just trying to get by in a new city. But when his life is threatened, he attempts to escape with the help of Eva, a sex...

Under the Trump administration, USA is a deeply divided country. One side feeds populism and religious rectitude in a monochromatic landscape,...