Poverty Movies

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself...

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother....

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son...

Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the...

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears

A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son.

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burglary to provide for his daughter. The narrative...

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

Violeta and Vyollca Dukay live in the south of Kosovo, close to the border with Albania. Faced with a very high unemployment in their country since...

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...

High School, flaunting sexuality is the norm. But teenage angst still reigns supreme among the school's outcasts, including the only virgin.

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who...

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like...

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...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...