Slum Movies

A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.

Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give...

Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for...

A courageous teacher leads a group against a real estate developer who is determined to evict hundreds to make way for a construction project.

A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

The film tells the story of Ramón Antonio Brizuela, who since childhood has to deal with rampant violence and the drugs, sex and petty...

Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man.

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

via print and film, love and music, state propaganda and people's archives, five-year plans and Emergency.

Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no...

An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word...

Thousands of undocumented migrants are illegally employed and exploited in the Italian crops to grow Italy's food. One Day One Day follows their...

Eugenio's Close Up: Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires A professional photographer seeks to infuse his Buenos Aires slum with art, creativity and free...

Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot...