Movies: Poverty

  • 1951
    Miracle in Milan

    Miracle in Milan (1951)

    Miracle in Milan

    7.31951HD

    Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He en...

    Miracle in Milan
  • 1956
    Street of Shame

    Street of Shame (1956)

    Street of Shame

    7.71956HD

    The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

    Street of Shame
  • 1952
    Europe '51

    Europe '51 (1952)

    Europe '51

    7.41952HD

    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...

    Europe '51
  • 1997
    Lawn Dogs

    Lawn Dogs (1997)

    Lawn Dogs

    7.11997HD

    In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes ...

    Lawn Dogs
  • 1957
    Nights of Cabiria

    Nights of Cabiria (1957)

    Nights of Cabiria

    81957HD

    Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and co...

    Nights of Cabiria
  • 1961
    Accattone

    Accattone (1961)

    Accattone

    7.71961HD

    A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison....

    Accattone
  • 1999
    Rosetta

    Rosetta (1999)

    Rosetta

    7.21999HD

    Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job....

    Rosetta
  • 1999
    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    Angela's Ashes

    7.21999HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions....

    Angela's Ashes
  • 1924
    Greed

    Greed (1924)

    Greed

    7.41924HD

    A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife....

    Greed
  • 1933
    Land Without Bread

    Land Without Bread (1933)

    Land Without Bread

    71933HD

    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...

    Land Without Bread
  • 1984
    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents (1984)

    The Holy Innocents

    7.71984HD

    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...

    The Holy Innocents
  • 1991
    Riff-Raff

    Riff-Raff (1991)

    Riff-Raff

    6.71991HD

    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...

    Riff-Raff
  • 1989
    Isle of Flowers

    Isle of Flowers (1989)

    Isle of Flowers

    8.11989HD

    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...

    Isle of Flowers
  • 1977
    Sorcerer

    Sorcerer (1977)

    Sorcerer

    7.41977HD

    Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dange...

    Sorcerer
  • 1996
    Cyclo

    Cyclo (1996)

    Cyclo

    71996HD

    Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf ...

    Cyclo
  • 1970
    Dodes'ka-den

    Dodes'ka-den (1970)

    Dodes'ka-den

    7.01970HD

    This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused...

    Dodes'ka-den
  • 1994
    Satantango

    Satantango (1994)

    Satantango

    8.11994HD

    Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shu...

    Satantango
  • 1991
    Curly Sue

    Curly Sue (1991)

    Curly Sue

    6.41991HD

    Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the suc...

    Curly Sue
  • 1987
    Pelle the Conqueror

    Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

    Pelle the Conqueror

    7.31987HD

    In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America....

    Pelle the Conqueror
  • 1945
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    7.61945HD

    In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the on...

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn