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...

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...

Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but...

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...

U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually...

Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the...

Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her....

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...

Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is...