Movies: Poor

A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II....

The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of startin...

Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship. Destructured families of low social classes are the perfect environment for delinquency, drugs, violenc...

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when yo...

The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens....

Alekos falls in love with Sophie, daughter of tycoon Grigoriadis, and is presented as the son of industrialist Merntsesoli....

A small village in Świętokrzyskie. The alcohol-breathing father instills faith in the princely roots of their family in the few-year-old Zbyszek. The awakened aspirations make the tight provincial atmosphere unbearable for Zbyszek several years later...

A bolstering eruption of chaos and boyhood; an exploration of the human body and how it interacts with the soul....

As seen today 'Money' is an integral part of everyone's life, the idea behind making this film was to portray the complexities between the multiple characters (Chetan, his mother & father) in a very realistic way regards to their point of view on mon...

An original 12 minutes short film about 2 girls stuck in their dead mom's house. It takes place in the rural Romania, in Transylvania....

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems....

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one winter in one American city, the film presents an intimate snaps...

Based on a traditional spoken tale, this Bertolt Brecht inspired musical humorously denounces poverty and insecurity, while ending on a very sarcastic note. A fine example of activist hand-crafted filmmaking....

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the internationa...

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To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?...

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Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybo...

‘No Longer Human’ follows the life of a newly homeless man who has fallen deep into the pits of loneliness. We all need someone, or something, to make sense of everything. That could take the shape of God, a partner, a best friend, but in this case.....

Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is the home of Anant, an 8 year old boy who scrapes a living picking coal and selling it at the local ma...