The Vault
Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1957 ★ 7.5Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue to travel around Athens with their lantern. However, Pavlara
The True Story of Ah Q
1981 ★ 6.8Based on the 1921 novella of the same name by one of China's most well-known modern writers, Lu Xun (Lu Hsun), the True Story of Ah Q is set during the 1911 rev
Avemmaria
2026 ★ 0.0Felice lives in two dark rooms of a crumbling building with his father Raffaele, recently laid off, his mother Antonietta, too young and worn down by grief, his
Little One
2013 ★ 5.6Little One is a story about ordinary people living day to day in a poverty-stricken environment where despite the crime and tough living conditions there is sti
The Boxer from Shantung
1972 ★ 6.9Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where h
Pestilent City
1967 ★ 5.8Pestilent City covers Manhattan from South to North, from Times Square to Harlem, finding along the way ever more poverty, violence, rage and tragic drunkenness
El Papelerito
1951 ★ 5.6Three children forge a close friendship with the help of a gentle elderly woman, Doña Dominga. They survive poverty and social exclusion; however, fate has a cr
The Rose Seller
1998 ★ 7.9Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfr
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997 ★ 6.1Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad ag
The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958 ★ 6.9Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her p
Synoikia to Oneiro
1961 ★ 7.2A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and destitution.
Anaganaga O Athidhi
2020 ★ 8.0Subbaiah and his family live in abject poverty and a soothsayer tells them that their fortune will change overnight. The peace in the house is stirred when a st
Everyday Hero
2017 ★ 0.0The true and inspiring story of Brother Guo Jian Nan — the selfless individual who dedicated his life to the Poverty Alleviation Program. The beautifully shot f
Taaza Khabar
2023 ★ 6.8A public toilet caretaker's poverty-stricken life takes a drastic U-turn when he helps an old woman. How long will fate smile upon him? Topic: Television series
The Fifteen Streets
1989 ★ 6.4In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher o
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1973 ★ 6.2Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inade
Campeón del barrio
1964 ★ 6.0A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a ni
The Children's Train
2024 ★ 7.4In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty. Drama histor
Palau the Movie
2019 ★ 7.7After his father passes away at age 10, the lives of Luis Palau and his family are changed forever. Within a few years of his father's death, Luis, his siblings
Hunger
1966 ★ 7.3In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and s
Baddegama
1980 ★ 6.0Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people
The Glenn Miller Story
1954 ★ 7.0A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s. The
Francesco
1989 ★ 6.5The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and
Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga
2022 ★ 5.9Inspired by the real events that took place in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve where people used to leave their elderly family members for tigers to prey on, and the