Poverty Movies

As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

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.

In 1985 a picturesque Argentinian holiday town was completely flooded, not to re-emerge until 2009. Now only Pablo remains in this modern day...

Restricted by a low economical life and his caste identity, Amitabh, a law graduate, becomes a Manual Scavenger. One day, he gets inside a sewer to...

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima....

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

Hoping to give her daughter a better life, a single mother decided to work part-time in a convenience store. Yet, the lack of night-time child care...

Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning...

Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who, armed only with his master boxing skills, wages an...

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

Award-winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce investigates New Zealand's housing crisis and what might be done to solve it. Bruce consults with...

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

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...

On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry...

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....

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

In the mountains of Northern Thailand lies a boarding school. The students come from different tribes in the area and live together with their Thai...

During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites...

In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for...