Movies: Poverty
- 2022
On the Fringe (2022)
On the Fringe6.62022HD
A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before i...
- 1991
The Ox (1991)
The Ox6.51991HD
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....
- 1933
Land Without Bread (1933)
Land Without Bread7.11933HD
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who re...
- 1933
Man's Castle (1933)
Man's Castle71933HD
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant....
- 1984
The Holy Innocents (1984)
The Holy Innocents7.71984HD
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 landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their w...
- 1933
Parachute Jumper (1933)
Parachute Jumper6.11933HD
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob....
- 2019
Native Son (2019)
Native Son5.52019HD
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever....
- 2016
Class Divide (2016)
Class Divide5.92016HD
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided...
- 1963
Life Goes On (1963)
Life Goes On6.91963HD
Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying and praying to atone for the sins of his family; a...
- 1952
Europe '51 (1952)
Europe '517.31952HD
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 her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single...
- 1989
Isle of Flowers (1989)
Isle of Flowers8.11989HD
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between toma...
- 1988
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free (1988)
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free5.81988HD
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. ...
- 1991
Riff-Raff (1991)
Riff-Raff6.61991HD
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment be...
- 1977
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe7.31977HD
Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave....
- 1969
Public Enemy: A Greek Tragedy (1969)
Public Enemy: A Greek Tragedy01969HD
Corruption, political instability and social poverty are explored in this tense documentary film chronicling the Greek government debt crisis and its impact on the people of Greece....
- 1933
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Wild Boys of the Road6.71933HD
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work....
- 1934
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Little Man, What Now?6.31934HD
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men....
- 1935
Love Me Forever (1935)
Love Me Forever41935HD
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him....
- 1921
The Blot (1921)
The Blot6.51921HD
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for bea...
- 1958
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
The Lovers of Montparnasse6.91958HD
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died i...