Poverty Movies

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it takes as its starting point the consensus from...

The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her...

Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days...

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

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh...

The story of two homeless brothers and their ambitious dreams of becoming race car drivers. Amidst a harsh reality where they are invisible to...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing...

Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in:...

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the...

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...

All The Eyes is the story of the lives of children whose geographical determinism has created obstacles for them to achieve their dreams. Children...

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

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...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to...

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

The Surgeon of Lazarus tells the symbolic story of a fisherman from a fishing village who becomes corrupt due to power and money, leading his village...