Poor Movies

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under...

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....

In the near future, the southern Italian city of Taranto is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest...

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented...

Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. ...

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers...

Fate plays a vital role in connecting the life of Bantu, a son who seeks validation from his cold-hearted father with the life of Raj, whose...

The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced persons in Kabul—struggles to balance...

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...

Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship....

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...

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by...

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...

America is in the midst of the Great Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially since Mrs. Kamp’s untimely death...

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...

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

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...

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...