Poverty Movies

Adonai Flores, an experienced writer of telenovelas, falls in love with Belén Helena, a girl of low class. Adonay, desperate to keep her with him, aba...

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched afte...

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal runni...

The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment,...

A teenager has to undo the mess his older brother made and protect his family even if he has to stand against dangerous thugs.

Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holi...

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacte...

Tony, Pol and Baby are three friends that get together to search a solution to their project for the future, at a standstill. They criticize constantl...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to liv...

A couple of children earn their living by playing music on the streets of Teheran. But a thief steals their accordion.

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 childr...

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son...

Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is evicted from her house. Now she has to get money fr...

In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for a...

This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy...

Clyde and Levi prepare for life after high school. Twists and turns allows for them to encounter adversaries that test their friendship, their strengt...

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in t...

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