Poor Movies

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides...

As seen today 'Money' is an integral part of everyone's life, the idea behind making this film was to portray the complexities between the multiple...

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 film takes place away from the glittering strip of mega casinos, but the greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts. This is...

Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were Silvio Rodriguez performs for the marginal...

A small village in Świętokrzyskie. The alcohol-breathing father instills faith in the princely roots of their family in the few-year-old...

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

Struggling to make ends meet, the talented but still unrecognised artist, Miltos, knows firsthand what's it like to try to live off art alone....

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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....

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

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

Aristides Papakatsikas welcomes two nephews to his home, the wealthy Manolis from America and the poor Manolis from Amaliada, whom he has never met...

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...