Poverty Movies
- 2003
Monster
Monster7.2162003HD
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
- 2023
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron7.4482023HD
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his...
- 2013
Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips7.542013HD
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo...
- 1977
Sorcerer
Sorcerer7.41977HD
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives...
- 1991
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho7.11991HD
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a...
- 1994
The Postman
The Postman7.9251994HD
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- 2018
Shoplifters
Shoplifters7.8552018HD
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl,...
- 2017
I, Tonya
I, Tonya7.52017HD
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into...
- 1933
Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread7.0331933HD
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...
- 1991
Curly Sue
Curly Sue6.41991HD
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue....
- 2024
The Children's Train
The Children's Train7.42024HD
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
- 2023
The Braid
The Braid7.7042023HD
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her...
- 2018
Capernaum
Capernaum8.1542018HD
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise...
- 2022
Samaritan
Samaritan6.6942022HD
Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was...
- 1967
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night7.6371967HD
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...
- 1962
Harakiri
Harakiri8.41962HD
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...
- 2008
Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy6.92008HD
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
- 1951
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan7.31951HD
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò,...
- 1957
Nights of Cabiria
Nights of Cabiria81957HD
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find...
- 1987
Withnail & I
Withnail & I7.2891987HD
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...