Poverty Movies

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Shunned and ignored for years by society in general, a lonely man develops a new ability, product of his own limitations: his ugliness, filthiness...

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...

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourhoods. Many of the residents are...

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009....

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were killed. "In five minutes," he says, "I lost...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for...

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a...

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the American rock band, Kings of Leon.

Adonai is an lunatic poet. He lives in an abandoned neighborhood of Caracas where he runs an underground radio called "Radio Pandemonium", he lives...

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

In the township of Mphopomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, Siyabonga, a young man, puts up theatre plays. When he hears about a movie...

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.