Poverty Movies

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

Coin is not about chasing wealth. It is about what happens when people are pushed so far down that they stop reaching altogether and only fight to...

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

In the mountains of Northern Thailand lies a boarding school. The students come from different tribes in the area and live together with their Thai...

FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted...

Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated conditions and trying to get by each day with whatever...

MADE IN SERBIA portrays the Serbian video porn industry by presenting four life stories of domestic porn actors. Unlike their Western counterparts,...

A third of Europeans live in economic insecurity: Zero hours contracts, the fear of redundancy and stagnating wages have brought more and more people...

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car...

The film tells the story of a young man who dreams of securing high jobs by completing his doctorate, but is forced to spend his days in a pig farm.

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

This short film tells the story of a marginalized man who, in order to survive, collects old cassettes from shops and off the street and carries them...

A look at what happened after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was filmed in the Romanian village...

Ivane, a Gurian peasant is struggling with social inequality, trying to feed an impoverished family, pay state and rent taxes with extreme physical...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009....

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities.

From respected forgers of Armour for Hindu kings in the 16th century through to impoverished nomadic blacksmiths who forge and sell items from waste...

While the center of Angola's capital Luanda is now ranked as one of the most expensive places in the world, the majority of the city's population...

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...