Poverty Movies

In the form of a posthumous letter to Storck, using clippings from the original 'Borinage' film, the director paints a personal picture about a...

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and...

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

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

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...

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

Sometimes it feels like we live in different worlds. But really, we're not that far away.

Yang Mengchi is a spoiled, rich do-nothing whose habit of smoking opium has cost him his entire fortune and the family mansion, the Garden of Repose,...

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

Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with...

This animated version of the classic Charles Dickens book faithfully follows the adventures of the young orphan Oliver Twist.

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...

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It...

A look at the rampant HIV epidemic rate in Swaziland.

A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back...

Mr. Hormoz's house is due to a bank mortgage debt. Financial problems have gripped him and his family and caused them trouble. To the extent that.

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...

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

Ivane, a Gurian peasant is struggling with social inequality, trying to feed an impoverished family, pay state and rent taxes with extreme physical...