Movies: Poor

  • 1980
    White Mama

    White Mama (1980)

    White Mama

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    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 beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had...

    White Mama
  • 1957
    Where To?

    Where To? (1957)

    Where To?

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    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 great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great diffi...

    Where To?
  • 2012
    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012)

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty

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    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 changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when yo...

    Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
  • 1989
    The Scent of Death

    The Scent of Death (1989)

    The Scent of Death

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    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 know of the young men's problems....

    The Scent of Death
  • 1987
    A Little Bit of Soul

    A Little Bit of Soul (1987)

    A Little Bit of Soul

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    A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II....

    A Little Bit of Soul
  • 2016
    Criando ratas

    Criando ratas (2016)

    Criando ratas

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    Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship. Destructured families of low social classes are the perfect environment for delinquency, drugs, violenc...

    Criando ratas
  • 2008
    The End of Poverty?

    The End of Poverty? (2008)

    The End of Poverty?

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    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 modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answe...

    The End of Poverty?
  • 1969
    Repechaje

    Repechaje (1969)

    Repechaje

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    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 can win the national tournament and use the funds to restore the school....

    Repechaje
  • 2013
    American Winter

    American Winter (2013)

    American Winter

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    Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one winter in one American city, the film presents an intimate snaps...

    American Winter
  • 2015
    Billions in Change

    Billions in Change (2015)

    Billions in Change

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    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, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions...

    Billions in Change
  • 2021
    Les enfants de bohème

    Les enfants de bohème (2021)

    Les enfants de bohème

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    Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separa...

    Les enfants de bohème
  • 1968
    A Thief with Philotimo

    A Thief with Philotimo (1968)

    A Thief with Philotimo

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    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 son of a wealthy target. Will the kind robber renounce his former self for her sake?...

    A Thief with Philotimo
  • 2024
    Drive Inside

    Drive Inside (2024)

    Drive Inside

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    KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far more well off, is more than willing to flaunt what he has and throw out money on the newest games an...

    Drive Inside
  • 1975
    The Family Nobody Wanted

    The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)

    The Family Nobody Wanted

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    A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids....

    The Family Nobody Wanted
  • 1992
    Jaan Tere Naam

    Jaan Tere Naam (1992)

    Jaan Tere Naam

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    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. Amongst them are Sunil and Vicky. She is attracted to Sunil, and both carry on a romantic relationship, h...

    Jaan Tere Naam
  • 1963
    Love Is a Ball

    Love Is a Ball (1963)

    Love Is a Ball

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    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 Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur Joh...

    Love Is a Ball
  • 2003
    Woman of Breakwater

    Woman of Breakwater (2003)

    Woman of Breakwater

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    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....

    Woman of Breakwater
  • 1967
    A Rich Without Money

    A Rich Without Money (1967)

    A Rich Without Money

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    A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money ....

    A Rich Without Money
  • 2020
    Portraits and Dreams

    Portraits and Dreams (2020)

    Portraits and Dreams

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    Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how th...

    Portraits and Dreams
  • 2024
    Poor Rich Boys

    Poor Rich Boys (2024)

    Poor Rich Boys

    4.22024HD

    Two friends start a new venture to become young millionaires...

    Poor Rich Boys