Nil by Mouth (1997), Half Nelson (2006), Sidewalk Stories (1989), Slumming (2006), The Little Match Girl (1928), Girls Town (1996), Boy of the Streets (1937), Star Maps (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Urban Poverty movies.
Storyline: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.—Gustaf Molin <gustaf.molin@usa.net>
Plot Keywords: domestic violence, underclass, alcoholism, drug abuse, working class, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, generally discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan's life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her father a virtually non-existent figure in her life and her EMT mother generally absent as she is ...
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, teacher, drugs, addiction, urban life, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase of the murderers.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, black and white film, silent film, street life, homelessness, social realism, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sebastian and Alex are two egocentric yuppies who stockpile underhanded up-skirt shots and bully others for their own amusement. On a night out they come across an inebriated man passed-out on a park bench and decide to prank him by smuggling him across the border.—jelena vukas
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, austria, social issues, urban life, poverty, marginalized people ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On New Year's Eve, a beautiful but penniless young woman (Catherine Hessling) trudges through the snowy streets of Paris attempting to sell matches to the wealthy passers-by. After staring longingly into the windows of restaurants at the safe and warm patrons within, the match girl attempts to escape the snow and cold by huddling into a corner near a toy shop. As the girl tries to warm herself with her matches, the shop's window display comes alive and beckons her into a fantasy world.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, short film, black and white, tragedy, poverty, holiday film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss each other at college next year, but the next day, Nikki doesn't show up at school: she's committed suicide. The friends steal Nikki's journal and discover that she'd been raped. The rest of the movie shows our heroines growing closer in the wake of Nikki's death and the relevation of her secret (Emma reveals that she's also been raped), taking revenge on the men who oppress them, and trying to grow up and move on with their lives. Emma has to deal with a shallow boyfriend, Angela with an overbearing mother, and Patti is trying to finish high school while trying to raise a child and avoid the child's loser father.—Martin Lewison <lewison+@pitt.edu>
Plot Keywords: female friendship, social issues, revenge, independent film, 1990s, female director, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
Plot Keywords: drama, children, coming of age, poverty, social issues, family, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After five years of living in Mexico, Carlos, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles. He wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, a pimp wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood. Finally one of his clients, Jennifer a rich soap star, offers him a bit part in her show. Pepe tells Carlos that she is just using him and demands that he most not see the woman any longer. Carlos defies his father and when his big day comes he finds out the harsh realities of life are even harsher than he imagined.—Wiki
Plot Keywords: independent film, latino culture, los angeles, immigrant story, family conflict, street life, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Plot Keywords: black and white, epic, historical drama, collectivism, cold war era, class struggle, collective memory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Samantha (Heather Graham) and Craig Howard (James Purefoy) are desperate to have a baby, but are having trouble conceiving. They seek help at a peculiar new fertility clinic, and Samantha becomes pregnant. But the couple are then approached by the unhinged Father Carlo (Andy Serkis), who claims Heather is carrying twins spawned from the Devil's DNA, and the clinic is really a front for a satanic cult that plans to use the Howards' children to take over the world.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, society, poverty, maternal love, coming of age, children ...
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