Topic: Poverty

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Virginia Cherrill · Florence Lee · Harry Myers

Plot The Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). She believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for...

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Jackie Coogan · Edna Purviance · Carl Miller

Plot 'The Kid' is the story of a child abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance). When The Little Tramp finds him, he tries unsuccessfully to find a...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Plot When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou

Plot It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when...

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Gibson Gowland · ZaSu Pitts · Jean Hersholt · Chester Conklin

Plot Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Plot Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Carlo Battisti · Maria Pia Casilio · Lina Gennari · Memmo Carotenuto

Plot Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Unberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Cassen · José Luis López Vázquez · Elvira Quintilla · Amelia de la Torre

Plot In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the...

Direction Bruno Stagnaro

Cast Rodrigo de la Serna · Diego Alonso Gómez · Ariel Staltari · Franco Tirri

Plot TV miniseries (2000). 11 episodes. Four young man with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being prosecuted by...

Direction Marlén Viñayo

Cast Evelyn Chileno · Ruth H. Vega · Magdalena Henríquez · Wendy Henríquez

Direction Jorge Furtado

Plot Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Gosho Shoichi · Shinichiro Kubota · Natuski Masako · Yoshikatsu Chiba

Plot The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by...

Direction Nadine Labaki

Cast Zain Al Rafeea · Yordanos Shiferaw · Boluwatife Treasure Bankole · Kawthar Al Haddad

Plot A political and contemporary fable, “Capernaum” centers around a child who rebels against the life he’s been imposed and launches a lawsuit.

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Pina Pellicer · Enrique Lucero · Mario Alberto Rodríguez

Plot Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a...

Direction Hanna Polak · Andrzej Celinski

Plot Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, Short Subject, this 35-minute documentary, takes an unblinking look at the reality of homeless children living in Russia today - in particular...

Direction Fernando Fernán Gómez

Cast Lina Canalejas · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Gemma Cuervo · Milagros Leal

Plot Two sisters, between whom exists a tumultuous sibling rivalry, try to find success, love and status in 1960s Madrid.

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Mohammad Amir Naji · Amir Farrokh Hashemian · Bahare Sediqi · Fereshte Sarabandi

Plot Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one...