Poverty Movies

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

One stranger on his way to an important meeting will transform the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film.

A couple of children earn their living by playing music on the streets of Teheran. But a thief steals their accordion.

Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated conditions and trying to get by each day with whatever...

Facing seizure of their own lands, two families found themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming...

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug...

After the death of his mother, Raúl is forced to look for his father to solve a legal problem with a property, he finds him in a distant town...

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards...

A short documentary exploring the grueling cycle of child labor in Pakistan through the story of two children, one working at a brick kiln and the...

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and...

Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning...

During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites...

In a fading Louisiana town, Jerome dreams of Hollywood while Terry seeks escape from a troubled home. United by desperation, they train for a...

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the...

Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

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

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....

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...