Movies: Homelessness
- 2023
Picture Proof (2023)
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Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life of sobriety. Weaving together moments of glee, fulfillment, acceptance, sorrow, and disappointment, this d...
- 1988
Promises to Keep (1988)
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Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and newspaper headlines about the fight to force the government to live up to their promise to provide ...
- 2018
Disco'd (2018)
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“Set against the rattle of shopping carts and the white noise of L.A. traffic... “Disco’d” is an unvarnished, moving look at the lives affected by the rising crisis of homelessness.” —Los Angeles Times...
- 2014
The Edge of the World (2014)
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Paris, at night. This is where Jeni, Wenceslas, Christine, Pascal and the others live. Homeless, they haunt the streets and bridges, and corridors of the metro; on the edge of a world where society no longer offers protection. They face us and they t...
- 2019
Life After the Oasis (2019)
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In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Ministe...
- 2020
This is an Address (2020)
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Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline....
- 2013
Heal America (2013)
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Legendary homeless activist Ted Hayes embarks on a journey to heal hearts and minds of Americans....
- 2025
Gandhi Was Silent on Saturdays (2025)
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The life of 16-year-old Mot is thrown into disarray when his father leaves the family. In protest, Mot brings home a homeless woman and declares that he will live with her....
- 2006
This Beggar's Description (2006)
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It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended fam...
- 2025
Monstres de poussière (2025)
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Johnny and Goyko were once homeless and are trying to tell their story in a film. It's not an easy road to rediscover the legitimacy of sharing your story. Together, we question the special bonds that documentary filmmaking creates....
- 2020
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow (2020)
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In Montreal, front-line workers work hard to provide appropriate care to the most vulnerable citizens in our society....
- 2018
Trickle Down Town (2018)
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Tomasz Biernacki’s thought-provoking documentary about the homeless crisis in Seattle. Deftly interweaving in-depth stories of community members who are living the crisis on the streets with interviews of political leaders and community advocates, vi...
- 1971
Väckning kl. 06.00 (1971)
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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....
- 2020
Blue Heart (2020)
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A hitchhiker makes his way towards the coast....
- 2019
Reseda (2019)
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The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family....
- 2011
9 Leben (2011)
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Several street children in Berlin talk about their daily life, referring not only to drug addiction and physical/traumatic injuries, but also to their talents and dreams....
- 2020
The Fight for the Soul of Seattle (2020)
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“The Fight for the Soul of Seattle” examines the role of Seattle’s City Council in allowing the situation to reach what many experts consider epidemic levels under the guise of a compassionate approach to people who suffer from substance addiction an...
- 2014
When Life Hands You Lemons (2014)
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Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles....
- 2015
Homeless (2015)
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After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter....
- 2023
Grandma's Ashes (2023)
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On his way to an audition, struggling actor Shaun Davis is asked a bizarre favor by a friend which takes his day in an unexpected direction....