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Kanopy
89
8.6
/861288/
85
/13747/
84
/7929/
4.6
/998306/
91
/162/
97
/15604/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3543/
81
/165/
75
/64/
4.4
/17109/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.2
/16811/
71
/419/
70
/289/
3.7
/9352/
74
/81/
78
/696/
63
/25/
cc age 17+

City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
64
7.5
/2345/
73
/73/
70
/63/
4.0
/11425/
100
/11/
96
/25/

Insiang (1976)
A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
55
6.9
/1863/
67
/39/
73
/48/
4.0
/4184/
86
/22/
78
/20/

Colossal Youth (2006)
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
poster
Kanopy
77
51
7.4
/2410/
74
/43/
78
/144/
3.8
/5826/
88
/16/

The Rose Seller (1998)
Monica 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 boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.
poster
63
47
6.5
/2590/
60
/33/
57
/46/
3.3
/1844/
70
/259/

I Walk the Line (1970)
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
poster
73
35
7.3
/1408/
74
/99/
70
/27/
3.5
/638/
81
/19/

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream (2012)
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 billionaires in the United States.
poster
78
29
7.8
/1041/
78
/27/
74
/26/
3.8
/1054/
85
/6/

The Children of Leningradsky (2005)
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
poster
69
21
7.7
/390/
67
/7/
56
/20/
4.0
/844/

Palms (1994)
A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.
poster
77
12
8.1
/147/
70
/5/
80
/1/
3.9
/891/

The Scavengers (1993)
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.
poster
?
7.1
/112/

The Return to Kandahar (2003)
Nelofer Pazira, the star of the movie 'Kandahar,' returns to Afghanistan to seek out her childhood friend Dyana, whose story inspired that film. Landing in Kabul 13 years after her family left Russian-occupied Afghanistan, Nelofer unravels her past and the history of her country while searching for Dyana; the epic journey takes her to Kabul, Kandahar and Masir-e-Sharif, where Dyana's uncle last had contact with her family.
poster
79
?
7.8
/152/
80
/4/
80
/4/

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (2020)
Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.
poster
?
50
/2/

Love (2017)
A documentary feature looking at the effects of poverty on prostitution.


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