Poverty Movies
- 1947
People of the Po Valley
People of the Po Valley6.41947HD
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
- 1949
Salon Mexico
Salon Mexico6.371949HD
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but...
- 1950
The King of the Neighborhood
The King of the Neighborhood8.2411950HD
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
- 1919
Bumping Into Broadway
Bumping Into Broadway6.91919HD
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he win...
- 1939
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music5.91939HD
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the...
- 2021
Danube
Danube52021HD
The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders liv...
- 1986
Combat Shock
Combat Shock6.3461986HD
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifes...
- 1967
The Whisperers
The Whisperers6.4311967HD
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers st...
- 1990
Rodrigo D. No Future
Rodrigo D. No Future71990HD
Rodrigo is a marginalized and lonely being who prefers to die before being forced to kill. He finds himself trapped in a city that oppresses him, cal...
- 2014
Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs6.3552014HD
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better l...
- 1971
The Father
The Father7.21971HD
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When...
- 1952
A Place Close to Heaven
A Place Close to Heaven8.21952HD
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again....
- 1913
Ingeborg Holm
Ingeborg Holm6.71913HD
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to t...
- 1979
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel61979HD
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalach...
- 2024
Bitter Taste
Bitter Taste02024HD
In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly marked...
- 2015
30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle
30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle02015HD
A former federal agent takes you from Milwaukee's streets into its justice system, following Harold Sloan and six other homeless men over five years a...
- 1989
The Fifteen Streets
The Fifteen Streets6.71989HD
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the...
- 2017
Meth Storm
Meth Storm6.32017HD
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of job oppo...
- 1976
The Bricklayers
The Bricklayers6.6151976HD
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround...
- 2024
Gisela
Gisela02024HD