Movies: Homelessness

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence....

Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19, shelters closed, jobs were lost, and homelessness in "Victoria B.C." (unceded L'kwungen Territories), swelled. A c...

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

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...

A lowly comic book shop owner discovers a mysterious young woman loitering in his shop, leading to an unlikely friendship....

dAVID, pETER, sUNSHINE, bROADWAY vIC, mARY, and fRANK have survived on the streets and been homeless for decades, as they join an ambitious government program in the hopes of regaining their lives back....

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old crowd....

Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. But when he arrived in Rome, the only thing waiting for the young man was a life of homelessness and ...

Terry is a homeless drifter just trying to get by in a new city. But when his life is threatened, he attempts to escape with the help of Eva, a sex worker also on the run...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man," interviewed a divers...

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...

Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin, TX, offering them a place to call home, helping them to heal from the ravages of life on the streets, and allowing them to rediscover a purpose in th...

Waiting for Barcelona revolves around the struggles of undocumented immigrants collecting scrap metal and selling illegal replicas in Barcelona. The film centers on the idea of how the dream of the city is very similar to everyone, but in practice di...

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox....

Legendary homeless activist Ted Hayes embarks on a journey to heal hearts and minds of Americans....

A sweeping look at the history and causes of the current homeless crisis in Los Angeles and an intimate view of the tireless advocates who strive to create better lives for their homeless clients....

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...

In Stockholm, Sweden, it is a lack of housing. A young homeless couple find their own solution to the problem. They sleep in the bed department of a mall....

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....

Following director Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth, as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America....