Poverty Movies

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

Celina works at a remote tollbooth on a desert road, few days before Christmas, her father dies and Celina becomes a door-to-door encyclopedia...

Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in the streets from a female perspective. Over a...

This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13...

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the American rock band, Kings of Leon.

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and...

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent...

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...

Corruption, political instability and social poverty are explored in this tense documentary film chronicling the Greek government debt crisis and its...

As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of...

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

A televised pantomime of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring various celebrities.

The lives of several individuals in the city criss-cross, thanks to children, who offer them a chance at redemption.

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and...

A desperate single mother uses her daughter's imagination as a fragile escape from the harsh reality of their struggling life.

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

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.

A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his...