Poverty Movies

Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept...

Documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao examines the complicated relationship between two drug addicts who become dealers over the course of three years. Shot...

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car...

Facing seizure of their own lands, two families found themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming...

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

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

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to...

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a true story.

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal...

A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom.

"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...

Ivane, a Gurian peasant is struggling with social inequality, trying to feed an impoverished family, pay state and rent taxes with extreme physical...

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...

The story of two homeless brothers and their ambitious dreams of becoming race car drivers. Amidst a harsh reality where they are invisible to...

The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam...

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...