Poverty Movies
- 1955
Shree 420
Shree 4207.51955HD
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and...
- 1979
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar5.41979HD
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...
- 2001
Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb5.472001HD
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try...
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks7.6962003HD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s...
- 2008
Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy6.92008HD
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
- 1975
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light7.2581975HD
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
- 1995
Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen6.61995HD
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an...
- 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 --...
- 1987
Withnail & I
Withnail & I7.2841987HD
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...
- 2019
Native Son
Native Son5.52019HD
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life...
- 1949
The Great Madcap
The Great Madcap7.21949HD
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to...
- 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...
- 2023
Abang Adik
Abang Adik7.62023HD
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...
- 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.
- 1933
Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread71933HD
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...
- 2016
All We Had
All We Had5.62016HD
A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.
- 2013
Fish Story
Fish Story02013HD
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever...
- 1924
Greed
Greed7.41924HD
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
- 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...
- 2019
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles6.9432019HD
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good...