Poverty Movies, Movies about Poverty

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) ... ...

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Song of the Road

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

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Parasite

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

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Les Misérables: The Staged Concert

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.

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Rocco and His Brothers

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.

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To Live

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

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Paris Is Burning

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.

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Make Way for Tomorrow

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.

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I Am Because We Are

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.

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Tomorrow Ever After

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.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

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Mother India

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.

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Siberiade

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 »

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Slumdog Millionaire

A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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The Grapes of Wrath

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

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Cinderella Man

The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.

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Aladdin

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.

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Fiddler on the Roof

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

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Shoeshine

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.

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Salaam Bombay!

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 »

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The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.

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Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

A tribute to jazz diva Anita O'Day, completed just weeks before her death in November 2006.

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Germany Year Zero

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.

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No Easy Way

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 »

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Lilya 4-Ever

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.

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The Color Purple

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

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Dark Days

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

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Titanic

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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.

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Makala

Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

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The White Balloon

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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