Poverty Movies

A documentary on young black children living in Toronto public housing.

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...

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

Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but...

A poor boy whose slippers are broken tries to repair them while watching a rich boy continuously cleaning his new and shiny shoes.

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads...

Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent...

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

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...

A short documentary following Stanoje Ćebić, an unemployed Yugoslav metalworker and self-proclaimed Marxist, as he moves through Belgrade...

After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

A feature length documentary that tells the story of nine young men and women constructing positive lives as they face the challenges of growing up...

"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be...

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...

One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...