Black Rain (1988), Waste Land (2010), This Is Congo (2017), Trading Places (1983), Raining Stones (1993), Porgy and Bess (1959), The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2003), Vodka Lemon (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poor Person movies.
Storyline: Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Plot Keywords: young woman, uncle, aunt, poor person, survivor, bleak, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: artist, artist's model, photographer, brazilian, poor person, fascinating, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: merchant, poor person, villager, government official, military officer, bleak, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, executive, broker, poor person, hustler, prostitute, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: poor person, sidekick, blue-collar worker, butcher, father, daughter, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: poor person, drug addict, african-american, disabled person, drug dealer, beautiful woman, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Plot Keywords: photographer, poor person, emotional, engaging, striking, appalachia, kentucky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: widower, father, poor person, bar owner, kurd, widow, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich "earn" decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.
Plot Keywords: poor person, wealthy man, heiress, police officer, thief, factory worker, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable". Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and facing a life sentence without parole, Barnes started naming names. With the first hand testimony from "the black Godfather" himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge.—Magnolia Films
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, gangster, african-american, kingpin, fbi agent, poor person, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brothers Vincent (rich) and Clay (poor) meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, who thinks his life is taking a turn for the better, Vince is actually plotting to kill him with a car bomb and pass the corpse off as his own, planning to start a new life elsewhere with his father's inheritance. But Clay survives the blast and has his face, memory and identity restored in hospital... but are they the right ones?—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: half brother, murderer, construction worker, poor person, brother, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris), is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.—Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, boxer, poor person, trainer, brutal, brooding, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Around 1906, the widow Lilia Herriton (Dame Helen Mirren) meets a young man when she visits Italy and marries him. The man is only a dentist without a good name, and Lilia's relatives are clearly unhappy with her choice. Lilia dies while giving birth to a son, and two relatives travel to Italy to take care of of the baby, expecting no trouble from the father.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: widow, friend, husband, mother-in-law, son, poor person, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is being saved to buy a gold candlestick for St. Francis. When one of the houses burns down and Danny is hurt fighting, Pilon makes an effort to make life better for his friend.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: homeless person, poor person, migrant worker, drunk, beautiful woman, uplifting, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
Plot Keywords: trader, murder victim, murderer, competitor, fighter, poor person, bleak ...
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