Poverty Movies
- 2023
The Braid
The Braid7.6172023HD
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her...
- 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...
- 2015
The Lady in the Van
The Lady in the Van6.42015HD
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’...
- 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...
- 1994
Satantango
Satantango8.11994HD
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and...
- 1956
Street of Shame
Street of Shame7.71956HD
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1924
Greed
Greed7.41924HD
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
- 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...
- 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.
- 1999
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Love Will Tear Us Apart6.41999HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2024
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon7.52024HD
Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.
- 2008
Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy6.8542008HD
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.
- 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...
- 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 --...
- 1961
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships7.11961HD
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.
- 1960
The Sun's Burial
The Sun's Burial6.51960HD
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...