Poverty Movies
- 2023
The Braid
The Braid7.652023HD
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her...
- 1987
Withnail & I
Withnail & I7.31987HD
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...
- 1999
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes7.2891999HD
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...
- 2008
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel6.62008HD
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to...
- 1991
Curly Sue
Curly Sue6.41991HD
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but...
- 2011
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai7.22011HD
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...
- 2009
Now & Later
Now & Later5.242009HD
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los...
- 1975
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light7.21975HD
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
- 2018
Shoplifters
Shoplifters7.8532018HD
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl,...
- 2010
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone6.812010HD
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...
- 2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Man Who Invented Christmas6.8472017HD
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when,...
- 1970
Dodes'ka-den
Dodes'ka-den71970HD
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...
- 1957
Nights of Cabiria
Nights of Cabiria7.9921957HD
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...
- 1952
Europe '51
Europe '517.3991952HD
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in...
- 2015
The Lady in the Van
The Lady in the Van6.4172015HD
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’...
- 1998
The Rose Seller
The Rose Seller7.71998HD
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...
- 1994
The Postman
The Postman7.9291994HD
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- 1924
Greed
Greed7.41924HD
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
- 2021
The Hand of God
The Hand of God7.5632021HD
In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved...
- 2014
The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime
The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime7.5912014HD
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in...