Poverty Movies

Like Don Quixote, Zivan Pujic Jimmy fights for his annual punk festival. A film about failure, ambition, friendship and clinging to your dreams....

A poor girl struggles to buy new trending sandals.

A look at what happened after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was filmed in the Romanian village...

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It...

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

It's Christmas time, but not everyone can afford it. Just when a pair of young parents are about to disappoint their little girl, a knight in bright...

Funny story of an unemployed metalworker, self-proclaimed Marxist, his views and whereabouts.

A documentary on young black children living in Toronto public housing.

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...

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments...

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and...

All The Eyes is the story of the lives of children whose geographical determinism has created obstacles for them to achieve their dreams. Children...

"VICE travels to the most dangerous country in the world to figure out what the hell is happening in Darfur. In the video, Vice founder Shane Smith...

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who, armed only with his master boxing skills, wages an...

Ranka is a street orphan, all of ten years old. He makes manjha used in kite flying for a living, and he has to take care of his three-year-old...

Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Children from a wealthy family are playing in a garden. They encounter poor children, looking sad and sickly, who watch them play with envy. Moved to...