Poverty Movies

the story of a young boy who must go to the store by himself for the first time. Things get complicated when the 140 Dram his mother gave him for...

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

A young man over-comes extreme poverty, a dysfunctional home, peer ridicule, and death in his family to embark on an epic journey that takes him to...

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS...

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the...

The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost...

A short documentary following Stanoje Ćebić, an unemployed Yugoslav metalworker and self-proclaimed Marxist, as he moves through Belgrade...

A cleaner lives a routine life full of poverty and trouble, dreaming of becoming a minister in charge of three different ministries, and comedy...

In the midst of economic hardship, a genius older brother is forced to conduct scientific research on how to become the ideal street busker in order...

A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back...

This film was shot in Cuba in 1994. The opportunity came when Russel Porter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, was invited to teach at the...

Mrs. Lucha, an old woman from a poor village, discovers a magical tree which blooms bread instead of fruits. Carried away by greed, she sells the...

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more...

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

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in photographs. When he discovered how strongly they...

These are the future leaders of their communities. Ever wonder what it’s like to walk a day in their shoes? How the world looks through their...

A short documentary exploring the grueling cycle of child labor in Pakistan through the story of two children, one working at a brick kiln and the...

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...