Poverty Movies
- 1961
Synoikia to Oneiro
Synoikia to Oneiro7.21961HD
A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and des...
- 1984
Autumn Almanac
Autumn Almanac6.91984HD
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
- 2016
Laia
Laia52016HD
"Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the...
- 1987
The Journey
The Journey3.21987HD
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent...
- 1938
Young Fugitives
Young Fugitives11938HD
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
- 2013
Marussia
Marussia6.32013HD
In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and...
- 2015
Good Funk
Good Funk02015HD
Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect through...
- 2012
Mai Ratima
Mai Ratima7.4292012HD
Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man...
- 1952
Mother
Mother6.8131952HD
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
- 2016
Petting Zoo
Petting Zoo6.42016HD
A story of love, sex and teen pregnancy in San Antonio, Texas. Petting Zoo is the portrait of a young woman coming into her own, in an environment tha...
- 2008
The End of Poverty?
The End of Poverty?7.92008HD
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our mode...
- 1972
The Flower Girl
The Flower Girl6.61972HD
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. H...
- 1958
The Money
The Money6.2861958HD
The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam Hyu...
- 2012
Stealing Africa
Stealing Africa8.52012HD
Zambia's copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia's copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years, they'v...
- 1989
Puta misèria!
Puta misèria!3.71989HD
Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in: ki...
- 1985
Hungry for Profit
Hungry for Profit01985HD
Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS...
- 1983
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk51983HD
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father die...
- 2015
How Most Things Work
How Most Things Work5.6252015HD
Celina works at a remote tollbooth on a desert road, few days before Christmas, her father dies and Celina becomes a door-to-door encyclopedia saleswo...
- 2017
95
954.52017HD
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world c...
- 1999
American Hollow
American Hollow6.31999HD
This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 childr...