Here we've displayed a list of the best Poverty films : Song of the Road(1955), Parasite(2019), Les Misérables: The Staged Concert(2019), Rocco and His Brothers(1960), To Live(1994), Paris Is Burning(1990), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), I Am Because We Are(2008), Tomorrow Ever After(2016), Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India(2001), Mother India(1957), Siberiade(1979) ... ...
8.6/10
Drama
India
1955
126 Minutes
Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Subir Bannerjee Uma Das Gupta Chunibala Devi Runki Banerjee Reba Devi Aparna Devi Haren Banerjee Tulsi Chakraborty Nibhanoni Devi
priest mother aunt daughter son bleak emotional moving small town bengal poverty abuse growing up sacrifice 1920s
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
8.6/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2019
132 Minutes
Song Kang-ho Yeo-jeong Jo So-dam Park Woo-sik Choi Sun-kyun Lee Seo-joon Park Jung Ziso Jeong-eun Lee Andreas Fronk Hyae Jin Chang Myeong-hoon Park
son mother daughter maid father tense bleak sad hilarious family home party estate secret hideout vanity class distinctions poverty murderous rampage hostage situation misfortune escape
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
8.6/10
Musical
2019
170 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Van Der Spuy Shan Ako Michael Ball Alfie Boe Earl Carpenter Carrie Fletcher Rob Houchen Matt Lucas Katy Secombe
prisoner prison guard peasant waif innkeeper love interest spirited touching bleak france prague street inn poverty injustice historical events prison break class conflict underdog pursuit
Seen by over 120 million people worldwide one of the world's most popular musicals. Now cinema audiences can experience a live broadcast of the musical phenomenon which broke box office records and sold out its entire 16-week season.
8.3/10
Drama
Italy|France
1960
155 Minutes
Alain Delon Renato Salvatori Annie Girardot Katina Paxinou Roger Hanin Paolo Stoppa Suzy Delair Claudia Cardinale Spiros Focas Max Cartier Rocco Vidolazzi
widow son boxer wife prostitute student melodramatic moving sad italy train station milan tenement house church boxing ring city vs. country brother relationship poverty relocation infidelity
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
8.3/10
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
8.2/10
Gay & Lesbian, Documentary
USA
1990
78 Minutes
André Christian Freddie Pendavis Willi Ninja Pepper LaBeija Junior Labeija Shari Headley Paris Duprée Dorian Corey
drag queen gay man performer friend spirited emotional new york city apartment gay bar stage drag queens prejudice poverty homophobia race relations underdog 1990s
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
8.1/10
Documentary
USA
2008
86 Minutes
madonna president bill clinton rev. dr. desmond tutu professor jeffrey sachs filmmaker disheartening passionate uplifting africa malawi united states malawi orphans aids poverty famine outreach transformation sacrifice discovery
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
8.1/10
Sci-Fi, Comedy
USA
2016
95 Minutes
Caitlin Mehner Matthew Murumba Bettina Goolsby Ela Thier Nabil Vinas Ebbe Bassey Craig Resta Vishwas Daphna Thier
historian physicist time traveler amusing charming confident creative emotional city house street time travel war poverty pollution greed loneliness discovery fall love
When a historian living in the year 2592 time-travels to 2015, she navigates the societal woes that she's read about in history books.
8.1/10
Drama, Romance, History
India
2001
223 Minutes
Aamir Khan Gracy Singh Rachel Shelley Paul Blackthorne Suhasini Mulay Kulbhushan Kharbanda Raghubir Yadav Rajendra Gupta Rajesh Vivek Vallabh Vyas Javed Khan
young man indian british government official villager cricket player governor inspiring spectacular melodramatic amusing india village estate cricket match woods sports colonialism taxes teamwork wager
The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.
8.1/10
Musical, Drama
India
1957
180 Minutes
Nargis Sunil Dutt Rajendra Kumar Mukri Raaj Kumar Kanhaiya Lal Jilloo Maa
wife husband peasant son money lender village elder melodramatic powerful touching moving india farm village field poverty perseverance injury motherhood death marriage
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
8.0/10
Drama
Soviet Union
1979
210 Minutes
Vladimir Samoilov Vitali Solomin Nikita Mikhalkov Natalya Andreychenko Mikhail Kononov Sergei Shakurov Lyudmila Gurchenko Pavel Kadochnikov Yelena Koreneva Ivan Dmitriev Konstantin Grigoryev
peasant military officer revolutionary lover son father brooding dense melodramatic powerful siberia village russian revolution poverty love rivalry political unrest family feud forbidden love rivalry
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ... See full summary »
8.0/10
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA|India
2008
116 Minutes
Dev Patel Freida Pinto Madhur Mittal Anil Kapoor Irrfan Khan Tanay Hemant Chheda Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Rubina Ali Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail
teenager young boy young girl criminal police officer host inspiring powerful uplifting mumbai slum television studio child abuse poverty crime game show deception rise sacrifice 2000s
A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
8.0/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2005
144 Minutes
Russell Crowe Renée Zellweger Paul Giamatti Craig Bierko Paddy Considine Bruce McGill Ron Canada David Huband Connor Price Ariel Waller Patrick Louis
boxer manager max baer wife uplifting emotional new jersey new york city boxing ring office family home boxing salvation marriage poverty class distinctions james j. braddock underdog rise transformation
The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.
8.0/10
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy
USA
1992
90 Minutes
thief magician genie princess king villain playful hilarious arabia palace cave dungeon poverty romance role reversal magic robbery adventure escape rise
A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
8.0/10
Musical
USA
1971
181 Minutes
Topol Norma Crane Leonard Frey Molly Picon Paul Mann Rosalind Harris Michele Marsh Neva Small Paul Michael Glaser Ray Lovelock Elaine Edwards
father butcher daughter mother lighthearted emotional heartwarming village household farm russia marriage deception poverty romance faith judaism forbidden love discovery transformation
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
8.0/10
Drama
Italy
1946
93 Minutes
Rinaldo Smordoni Franco Interlenghi Annielo Mele Bruno Ortenzi Emilio Cigoli Pacifico Astrologo Maria Campi Enrico De Silva Antonio Lo Nigro Anna Pedoni
shoeshine boy orphan brother con artist police officer bleak emotional racetrack rome juvenile detention boat troubled youth corruption poverty freedom friendship underdog fall escape 1940s
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
8.0/10
Drama
USA|India|France|UK
1988
113 Minutes
Shafiq Syed Hansa Vithal Aneeta Kanwar Raghubir Yadav Chanda Sharma Nana Patekar Anjaan Amrit Patel
young boy mother brother drug dealer prostitute friend dark emotional bombay, india small town street slum circus poverty addiction abandonment family homelessness homesickness growing up
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ... See full summary »
7.9/10
Drama
Italy
1978
175 Minutes
Luigi Ornaghi Francesca Moriggi Omar Brignoli Antonio Ferrari Teresa Brescianini Giuseppe Brignoli Carlo Rota Pasqualina Brolis Massimo Fratus Francesca Villa
farmer wife son priest landlord engaging calm touching italy farm countryside family poverty school religion sacrifice growing up 1890s
Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
7.9/10
Documentary, Music
USA
2007
93 Minutes
Anita O'Day Buddy Bregman Leonard Feather Will Friedwald Russell Garcia Johnny Mandel
jazz singer friend critic musician inspiring engaging chicago stage anita o'day drug addiction poverty performance struggle imprisonment rise underdog 1960s
A tribute to jazz diva Anita O'Day, completed just weeks before her death in November 2006.
7.9/10
War, Drama
Italy|France|Germany
1948
73 Minutes
Ernst Pittschau Erich Guhne Edmund Moeschke Ingetraud Hinze Franz Otto Kruger Heidi Blänkner Karl Krüger Jo Herbst
boy father brother sister teacher bleak disheartening disturbing berlin apartment street family poverty desperation starvation sexual advances quest fall transformation 1940s
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
7.9/10
Drama
USA
1996
107 Minutes
Alan Boyce Khandi Alexander Brandon Hammond Jermaine Montell Christina Pickles
pianist single mother teenager son doctor moving emotional tender los angeles hospital street aids unlikely friendship troubled youth dying young poverty discovery transformation 1990s
Matthew, a concert pianist played by Alan Boyce, has kept his HIV positive status secret and refuses help from family and doctors. On the night he loses his job playing mood music in a ... See full summary »
7.8/10
Drama
Sweden|Denmark
2002
109 Minutes
Oksana Akinshina Artiom Bogucharski Elina Benenson Liliya Shinkaryova Pavel Ponomaryov Tomas Neumann Lyubov Agapova Tonu Kark Anastasia Bedredinova Nikolai Bentsler
teen girl teen boy best friend pimp aunt prostitute bleak chilling powerful sweden soviet union apartment bridge high school human trafficking hard times suicide poverty prostitution abandonment
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
7.8/10
Drama
USA
1985
152 Minutes
Whoopi Goldberg Danny Glover Margaret Avery Oprah Winfrey Willard E. Pugh Adolph Caesar Akosua Busia Desreta Jackson Rae Dawn Chong Dana Ivey Leonard Jackson
daughter stepfather husband lover brutal emotional moving georgia abuse racism lesbianism poverty discovery forbidden love growing up 1930s
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
7.8/10
Documentary
USA
2000
94 Minutes
homeless person convict prisoner dark dense uneasy prison new york city subway drug addiction rape confinement child abuse poverty crime fall sacrifice 2000s
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
7.8/10
Romance, Drama, History
USA|Mexico
1997
195 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Billy Zane Kathy Bates Frances Fisher Gloria Stuart Bill Paxton Bernard Hill Jonathan Hyde Victor Garber David Warner
wealthy woman artist fiancée widow touching thrilling emotional ship ocean liner ocean floor atlantic ocean love triangle poverty scandal jealousy survival shipwreck love fall rivalry
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
7.8/10
Fantasy, Kids & Family
USA|UK
1971
98 Minutes
Gene Wilder Jack Albertson Peter Ostrum Roy Kinnear Julie Dawn Cole Leonard Stone Denise Nickerson Dodo Denney Paris Themmen Ursula Reit Michael Bollner
boy grandfather factory director oompa loompa spoiled girl incredible outlandish charming factory magic imagination candy wishes poverty discovery temptation growing up 1970s
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
7.8/10
Documentary
France
2017
96 Minutes
man family member friend merchant traveler emotional incredible powerful endearing touching inspiring congo road market house poverty trading labor family perseverance
Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
7.7/10
Drama
Iran
1995
85 Minutes
Aida Mohammadkhani Mohsen Kalifi Fereshteh Sadr Orfani Anna Bourkowska Mohammad Shahani Mohammad Bahktiari
young girl brother mother snake charmer balloon seller shop owner engaging moving emotional endearing tehran, iran house courtyard street market childhood innocence trust poverty iranian society
Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
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