Poverty Movies

  • 1978
    Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven

    7.51978HD

    In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work...

    Days of Heaven
  • 1999
    Rosetta

    Rosetta

    Rosetta

    7.31999HD

    Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is...

    Rosetta
  • 1970
    Dodes'ka-den

    Dodes'ka-den

    Dodes'ka-den

    71970HD

    This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

    Dodes'ka-den
  • 1991
    Curly Sue

    Curly Sue

    Curly Sue

    6.41991HD

    Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue....

    Curly Sue
  • 2010
    Winter's Bone

    Winter's Bone

    Winter's Bone

    6.82010HD

    After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal...

    Winter's Bone
  • 2019
    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

    6.9552019HD

    Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good...

    Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
  • 1957
    Nights of Cabiria

    Nights of Cabiria

    Nights of Cabiria

    7.9941957HD

    Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find...

    Nights of Cabiria
  • 1947
    One Wonderful Sunday

    One Wonderful Sunday

    One Wonderful Sunday

    7.31947HD

    Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...

    One Wonderful Sunday
  • 2023
    The Braid

    The Braid

    The Braid

    7.6142023HD

    India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her...

    The Braid
  • 2009
    Now & Later

    Now & Later

    Now & Later

    5.22009HD

    Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los...

    Now & Later
  • 1933
    Land Without Bread

    Land Without Bread

    Land Without Bread

    71933HD

    An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

    Land Without Bread
  • 1994
    The Postman

    The Postman

    The Postman

    7.91994HD

    Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

    The Postman
  • 1987
    Withnail & I

    Withnail & I

    Withnail & I

    7.2851987HD

    Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...

    Withnail & I
  • 2011
    Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

    Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

    Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

    7.22011HD

    A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a...

    Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
  • 2023
    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    Abang Adik

    7.62023HD

    Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of...

    Abang Adik
  • 2014
    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime

    7.62014HD

    This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in...

    The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
  • 2011
    Le Havre

    Le Havre

    Le Havre

    72011HD

    In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a...

    Le Havre
  • 2021
    The Hand of God

    The Hand of God

    The Hand of God

    7.62021HD

    In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved...

    The Hand of God
  • 1960
    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial

    6.5421960HD

    In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

    The Sun's Burial
  • 1998
    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    The Rose Seller

    7.6871998HD

    Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her...

    The Rose Seller