Poverty Movies

Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.

19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal...

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he...

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent...

Facing seizure of their own lands, two families found themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming...

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

Clyde and Levi prepare for life after high school. Twists and turns allows for them to encounter adversaries that test their friendship, their...

In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and...

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

A poor boy whose slippers are broken tries to repair them while watching a rich boy continuously cleaning his new and shiny shoes.

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They...

In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for...

Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.