Poverty Movies

  • 1944
    Naples Is a Battlefield

    Naples Is a Battlefield

    Naples Is a Battlefield

    6.41944HD

    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...

    Naples Is a Battlefield
  • 2015
    Gringo on the Slum

    Gringo on the Slum

    Gringo on the Slum

    32015HD

    Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They...

    Gringo on the Slum
  • 1951
    Still I Live On

    Still I Live On

    Still I Live On

    61951HD

    About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

    Still I Live On
  • 2012
    Three Grams of a Dream

    Three Grams of a Dream

    Three Grams of a Dream

    92012HD

    In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams begin. Ping-pong is in Ben's heart, but he can't...

    Three Grams of a Dream
  • 2016
    Class Divide

    Class Divide

    Class Divide

    5.92016HD

    A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...

    Class Divide
  • 2004
    Elephants Never Forget

    Elephants Never Forget

    Elephants Never Forget

    7.22004HD

    A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

    Elephants Never Forget
  • 2018
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

    72018HD

    In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he...

    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
  • 1964
    Campeón del barrio

    Campeón del barrio

    Campeón del barrio

    61964HD

    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...

    Campeón del barrio
  • 1990
    The March

    The March

    The March

    81990HD

    A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We...

    The March
  • 2012
    Stealing Africa

    Stealing Africa

    Stealing Africa

    8.92012HD

    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,...

    Stealing Africa
  • 2007
    Using

    Using

    Using

    6.52007HD

    Documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao examines the complicated relationship between two drug addicts who become dealers over the course of three years. Shot...

    Using
  • 2019
    Havana, From On High

    Havana, From On High

    Havana, From On High

    72019HD

    The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable,...

    Havana, From On High
  • 2015
    Ghost Town to Havana

    Ghost Town to Havana

    Ghost Town to Havana

    02015HD

    A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...

    Ghost Town to Havana
  • 2022
    Los pobres aman con las manos

    Los pobres aman con las manos

    Los pobres aman con las manos

    02022HD

    Tony, Pol and Baby are three friends that get together to search a solution to their project for the future, at a standstill. They criticize...

    Los pobres aman con las manos
  • 2024
    La Bailarina

    La Bailarina

    La Bailarina

    02024HD

    La Bailarina
  • 2015
    How Most Things Work

    How Most Things Work

    How Most Things Work

    5.82015HD

    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...

    How Most Things Work
  • 1935
    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Forever

    5.51935HD

    A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

    Love Me Forever
  • 2012
    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    82012HD

    The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the...

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
  • 2000
    Nuyorican Dream

    Nuyorican Dream

    Nuyorican Dream

    3.32000HD

    A gripping portrait of one Puerto Rican family living in NYC. Roberto, 29, the eldest son gay and living in Greenwich Village. Marta the family...

    Nuyorican Dream
  • 2000
    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    6.72000HD

    Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

    Blackboards