Poor Movies

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant...

Reluctantly, an otherwise honest paterfamilias accepts his shady friend's proposition to start a career in crime. Now, his daughter is in love with...

A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him to return as a ghost, determined to claim the...

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our...

The economy has collapsed. In a universe of moral and economic impoverishment, we find Flavia, a spoiled teenager with artistic aspirations that are...

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of...

Esthappan is a fisherman, who lives in a seashore colony. His story unfolds through narrations by other fishermen about his miraculous acts. Through...

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband,...

The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and...

The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food,...

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they...

A financially struggling father is confronted with a moral dilemma when he enters the criminal underworld as a contract killer to support his family.

Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on...

The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the...

Lovely Pinky Malhotra is a heart-breaker in the college where she studies, and has a number of young men who would lay down their lives for her....

The school in the village of San Goloteo el Chiquito is in very poor condition. Nito and Neto try to find a solution by forming a soccer team that...

A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the...

After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper...

Two brothers migrate to a city to escape the violence in their village, but the city's leader has other plans in mind for them.

Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald,...