Poverty Movies

  • 2018
    Five Fingers for Marseilles

    Five Fingers for Marseilles

    Five Fingers for Marseilles

    5.62018HD

    Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one...

    Five Fingers for Marseilles
  • 1961
    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet

    7.11961HD

    Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in...

    Aimless Bullet
  • 2009
    Mall Girls

    Mall Girls

    Mall Girls

    5.32009HD

    Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves...

    Mall Girls
  • 1996
    Cyclo

    Cyclo

    Cyclo

    71996HD

    Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a...

    Cyclo
  • 1984
    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    7.7741984HD

    Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy...

    The Holy Innocents
  • 1994
    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    Mi Vida Loca

    7.11994HD

    Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by...

    Mi Vida Loca
  • 2010
    With Love... from the Age of Reason

    With Love... from the Age of Reason

    With Love... from the Age of Reason

    5.52010HD

    The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven....

    With Love... from the Age of Reason
  • 2013
    As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying

    5.2242013HD

    Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.

    As I Lay Dying
  • 1979
    Lady Oscar

    Lady Oscar

    Lady Oscar

    5.41979HD

    Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...

    Lady Oscar
  • 2001
    Tom Thumb

    Tom Thumb

    Tom Thumb

    5.52001HD

    Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try...

    Tom Thumb
  • 1986
    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock

    6.3551986HD

    A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban...

    Combat Shock
  • 1987
    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    Lute: Forge On or Die

    5.91987HD

    In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more...

    Lute: Forge On or Die
  • 1961
    Evergreen Tree

    Evergreen Tree

    Evergreen Tree

    71961HD

    Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of...

    Evergreen Tree
  • 2015
    Taxi

    Taxi

    Taxi

    7.0462015HD

    A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

    Taxi
  • 1984
    Autumn Almanac

    Autumn Almanac

    Autumn Almanac

    71984HD

    In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

    Autumn Almanac
  • 1932
    Mickey's Good Deed

    Mickey's Good Deed

    Mickey's Good Deed

    6.31932HD

    Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich...

    Mickey's Good Deed
  • 1932
    The Cabin in the Cotton

    The Cabin in the Cotton

    The Cabin in the Cotton

    6.31932HD

    Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

    The Cabin in the Cotton
  • 1952
    Mother

    Mother

    Mother

    6.8821952HD

    A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

    Mother
  • 1952
    Carrie

    Carrie

    Carrie

    6.41952HD

    Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly...

    Carrie
  • 2024
    Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    7.42024HD

    Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.

    Fly Me to the Moon