Movies: Homelessness

  • 2007
    Skid Row

    Skid Row (2007)

    Skid Row

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    A documentary that chronicles Pras Michel's 9-day experience as a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. Given a dollar a day to live, his worldview is shattered as he sees firsthand the fight for survival on the violent streets....

    Skid Row
  • 1936
    The Trouble with Money

    The Trouble with Money (1936)

    The Trouble with Money

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    Respected banker Karel Brand is seen as a marketable emblem of probity. When he loses 350,000 guilders, his reputation is tarnished – without the respect attached to it, he loses his job. Brand becomes unemployable, and his creditors suddenly start c...

    The Trouble with Money
  • 2009
    Australia

    Australia (2009)

    Australia

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    How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film follows the team fr...

    Australia
  • 2005
    The Children of Leningradsky

    The Children of Leningradsky (2005)

    The Children of Leningradsky

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    Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the presen...

    The Children of Leningradsky
  • 2019
    Oildale

    Oildale (2019)

    Oildale

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    Homeless veterans find family as they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while discovering her voice in Americana music....

    Oildale
  • 2017
    I Am Another You

    I Am Another You (2017)

    I Am Another You

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    Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limits....

    I Am Another You
  • 2016
    Part of Us

    Part of Us (2016)

    Part of Us

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    From her childhood, Nadia felt responsible for her mentally disturbed and recently homeless mother, Irene. For a while Nadia had cut off all contact with Irene and tried to live her life, until Irene suddenly appears drunk at the wedding of her son, ...

    Part of Us
  • 2019
    A Ship of Human Skin

    A Ship of Human Skin (2019)

    A Ship of Human Skin

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    A gothic tale of mysticism and violent crime. Two women go out into the fringe of rural culture to seek a revelation. They get trapped in a fierce place, and one murders a man with an ax after she has a vision that he is an evil thing....

    A Ship of Human Skin
  • 2017
    Men Who Sleep in Cars

    Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)

    Men Who Sleep in Cars

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    Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social power....

    Men Who Sleep in Cars
  • 1986
    Down and Out in America

    Down and Out in America (1986)

    Down and Out in America

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    The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the powe...

    Down and Out in America
  • 2001
    Salvation

    Salvation (2001)

    Salvation

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    This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army. Shot in Toronto at Christmastime, the film chronicles the small hopes and tiny victories of life lived below the poverty line and th...

    Salvation
  • 1988
    No Address

    No Address (1988)

    No Address

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    This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless po...

    No Address
  • 2023
    Someone Lives Here

    Someone Lives Here (2023)

    Someone Lives Here

    7.62023HD

    Chronicles the modern-day David and Goliath tale amidst North America's housing crisis. During the pandemic, Khaleel Seivwright, a young Toronto carpenter, builds life-saving shelters for unhoused people facing the winter outside. His actions attract...

    Someone Lives Here
  • 1969
    Down the Arm of God

    Down the Arm of God (1969)

    Down the Arm of God

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    Inspired by real stories, a young pastor, through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, follows his mission to help the homeless is faced with resistance by his congregation, exposing deep-seated prejudices and systemic failures....

    Down the Arm of God
  • 1959
    A Simple Story

    A Simple Story (1959)

    A Simple Story

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    A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers....

    A Simple Story
  • 2020
    Comedy Confessions

    Comedy Confessions (2020)

    Comedy Confessions

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    COMEDY CONFESSIONS takes you on a journey into the lives of three struggling comedians who have decided to pursue their dreams of careers in stand-up comedy despite the harsh realities of being homeless. For these comedians, their cars are lifesavers...

    Comedy Confessions
  • 2025
    untitled minneapolis project

    untitled minneapolis project (2025)

    untitled minneapolis project

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    A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of homelessness....

    untitled minneapolis project
  • 1969
    Kitty

    Kitty (1969)

    Kitty

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    A homeless, gay 17-year-old, fleeing Mormon conversion therapy, is taken under the wing of an 18-year-old, brash, Black trans sex worker. They create a competition to see who can first contract HIV, in order to secure state benefits and escape the vi...

    Kitty
  • 2023
    The Have Not

    The Have Not (2023)

    The Have Not

    102023HD

    After a failed relationship, a deadbeat man tries to live off the land in a beach town on Long Island....

    The Have Not
  • 2025
    Petit Rempart

    Petit Rempart (2025)

    Petit Rempart

    02025HD

    Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by women in far more precarious circumstances than herself, she tries to regard her unprecedented social downfall as an immersion in real life. By the time...

    Petit Rempart