Poverty Movies

The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable,...

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burglary to provide for his daughter. The narrative...

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

A stranger arrives in a remote Himalayan valley seeking to provide access to education to the community.

In the mountains of Northern Thailand lies a boarding school. The students come from different tribes in the area and live together with their Thai...

The story takes place in the landscapes of La Spezia, where urban and rural environments intertwine. Water plays a primary role as a form, alongside...

Bettina and Frank are from Saxony, without a job and are on vacation for the first time. They go to the sunny beach, where the unemployed Bulgarians...

Al Levin examines the system which functions to keep the working class in the United States oppressed.

In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily bread is a constant struggle. But the sense of...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah is one of them. Like the majority, Abdallah is...

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

Documentary about what makes a house a home.

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a...

Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and...

Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated conditions and trying to get by each day with whatever...

A teenager has to undo the mess his older brother made and protect his family even if he has to stand against dangerous thugs.

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...