Poverty Movies

Adonai is an lunatic poet. He lives in an abandoned neighborhood of Caracas where he runs an underground radio called "Radio Pandemonium", he lives...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better...

In the township of Mphopomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, Siyabonga, a young man, puts up theatre plays. When he hears about a movie...

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

A story of love, sex and teen pregnancy in San Antonio, Texas. Petting Zoo is the portrait of a young woman coming into her own, in an environment...

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US...

Content, the son of a film company owner, falls in love with Cop, a handsome guy who is looking for a job position as a security guard. Though they...

The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And...

A veteran general, living poorly but honestly with his wife and his daughter, is visited by his future son-in-law who informs him that he is going to...

Documentary about what makes a house a home.

The Surgeon of Lazarus tells the symbolic story of a fisherman from a fishing village who becomes corrupt due to power and money, leading his village...

A look at what happened after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was filmed in the Romanian village...

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

In a sprawling city, a man's firm belief that people are innately selfless is severely tested.

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into...

One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.