Poverty Movies

Hans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after losing his livelihood. While there he meets a girl...

The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders...

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

Carmine is a thirteen-year-old boy who is forced to work with his father, spending his adolescence torn between desires and loves. One day, he meets...

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

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of...

Lahore, Pakistan. During a whole day, we follow Agha, a little boy who, to survive, collects waste in the street without caring about the world which...

Migrants from the countryside and unemployed people from neighbouring cities take over some unused land and establish a neighbourhood in the...

Nun Nancy follows the heartfelt ministry of a passionate woman of God that served the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland disguised as a bartender so...

The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau...

A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom.

While the center of Angola's capital Luanda is now ranked as one of the most expensive places in the world, the majority of the city's population...

Jade and Effy exist in a paradox of determination to achieve authenticity while living a hedonistic lifestyle. In their time of desperation for...

Ebrahim leaves his family and tries out his luck in Teheran. But in this urban jungle where everything's for sale and anything can be bought, dreams...

In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort leads to a national healthcare program that helps...

Children from a wealthy family are playing in a garden. They encounter poor children, looking sad and sickly, who watch them play with envy. Moved to...