On the Bowery (1956), Sister (2012), In the Heights (2021), Up the Yangtze (2007), Stray Dog (1949), Tuya's Marriage (2006), Rosie (2018), The Devil's Miner (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poverty movies.
Storyline: Two young women grow up together in an orphanage. One finds refuge in a Romanian convent and the other moves to Germany to start a new life.
Plot Keywords: religion, exorcism, crisis of faith, homosexuality, social exclusion, psychological torment, patriarchy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After not seeing his younger friend for several years, documentary director Steve James decides to catch up with the Illinois boy he once mentored. No longer the nerdy preteen James once knew, Stephen Fielding is now a damaged adult who has had repeated problems with the law. While reproaching himself for not maintaining a closer relationship with his old friend, James tries to understand Fielding's evolution from abused child to a man convicted of serious crimes.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, crime, social issues, poverty, family, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Abandoned by his mother, 6-year-old Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov) lives in an orphanage run by a greedy woman (Mariya Kuznetsova) and her cruel lover (Nikolai Reutov). Vanya decides to run away and find his mother after a wealthy Italian couple offer to buy him and after observing that the older children in the home survive by stealing or prostitution. He faces many dangers on his journey, including the pair at the orphanage who tried to sell him.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, romance, gangster, violence, new york, underworld ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Plot Keywords: social realism, poverty, family breakdown, street life, legal battle, struggle for survival, humanitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unemployed small-town man defies all odds and naysayers and starts his own garment business.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, inspirational, entrepreneurship, indian cinema, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Casper lives in one of Copenhagen's most impoverished areas and does what it takes to survive. When organized crime moves into the community, Casper digs in to resist being run out.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, nordic film, danish film, gangster, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hubert Sauper's Oscar-nominated documentary about the Nile perch, a species introduced into Lake Victoria as an experiment in the sixties. Since then, the fish has not only wiped out the lake's other marine life, but also has a tendency to consume its own young. Unfortunately, the Nile perch is also the region's most profitable export. Everyone with a stake in the market downplays the ecological disaster.
Plot Keywords: documentary, globalization, africa, poverty, social injustice, capitalism, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having no heir to carry on his art, an aging Chinese street performer (Zhu Xu) buys a child (Zhou Renying) on the black market.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, tradition, adoption, gender discrimination, china, family bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
Plot Keywords: historical, war, italy, biographical, political, exile, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from Ireland and search for success in New York.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, immigration, new york, ireland, grief, hope ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Pakistani boy tests weapons but wishes to go to school.
Plot Keywords: war, father-son relationship, coming of age, cultural conflict, tradition, modernity, education ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 60-year-old man in Chad, resentful of his lot in life, can only contribute his son's services to the war effort.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, war, father-son relationship, human nature, africa, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
Plot Keywords: french film, drama, black and white, 1960s, social marginalization, poverty, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the true story of a 19th-century peasant woman who claimed to see the Virgin Mary near her home in Lourdes.
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, catholicism, france, poverty, rural life, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An 1880s Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) is summoned to England by his grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) and raised as a lord.
Plot Keywords: children, family, drama, classic, british, literary adaptation, coming of age ...
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