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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3548/
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
85
84
8.2
/23432/
80
/429/
80
/519/
4.2
/49365/
91
/43/
95
/281/

The Young and the Damned (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
poster
84
8.1
/3147/
74
/120/
73
/54/
4.0
/3152/
97
/65/
86
/209/
84
/25/

49 Up (2006)
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man," interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Michael Apted, a researcher for the original film, has returned to interview the "children" every seven years since, at ages 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 and now again at age 49.In this latest chapter, more life-changing decisions are revealed, more shocking announcements made and more of the original group take part than ever before, speaking out on a variety of subjects including love, marriage, career, class and prejudice.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.6
/6057/
75
/381/
74
/343/
4.1
/82506/
100
/62/
83
/16/

Souleymane's Story (2024)
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.7
/7445/
75
/268/
72
/119/
4.0
/8639/
94
/72/
89
/396/
75
/25/

Dark Days (2000)
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
poster
81
7.3
/215006/
72
/7423/
71
/3226/
3.8
/507755/
93
/440/
82
/313/
87
/57/
cc age 15+

Nomadland (2021)
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.2
/555/
75
/30/
75
/9/
3.6
/681/
94
/18/
84
/7/

I Am Another You (2017)
Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limits.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.8
/130098/
75
/2187/
74
/1535/
4.2
/192488/
89
/114/
88
/2306/
79
/16/
cc age 17+

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Crunchyroll
79
7.6
/29380/
79
/2324/
79
/1557/
3.9
/68630/
90
/67/
88
/141/
65
/15/
8.2
/237847/
cc age 11+

The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/146120/
73
/2435/
72
/1830/
3.9
/123399/
79
/194/
84
/4492/
80
/40/
cc age 15+

The Hours (2002)
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
poster
76
6.9
/728/
61
/7/
60
/2/
3.1
/572/
98
/44/
99
/50/
73
/4/

Scrap (2022)
​​After getting laid off, young single-mom Beth finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother Ben.
poster
76
8.0
/611223/
80
/16246/
78
/10354/
4.0
/919201/
67
/174/
87
/42155/
64
/36/
cc age 12+

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
poster
MUBI
75
7.1
/20914/
70
/563/
68
/349/
3.9
/46206/
85
/183/
67
/1017/
80
/32/

Wendy and Lucy (2008)
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
poster
74
7.1
/3004/
70
/49/
66
/40/
3.5
/1146/
80
/10/
87
/37/

The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
poster
73
6.8
/2710/
64
/90/
66
/37/
3.5
/34484/
96
/102/
63
/23/
77
/29/
cc age 15+

Urchin (2025)
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
poster
MGM Plus
76
73
7.5
/15100/
75
/275/
72
/211/
3.6
/10719/
92
/26/
86
/265/
61
/8/

Lilies of the Field (1963)
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
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Netflix
71
6.8
/71077/
67
/2998/
70
/1546/
3.7
/1045705/
82
/293/
63
/126/
74
/54/
cc age 16+

Bones and All (2022)
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
6.7
/34197/
68
/1941/
64
/782/
3.3
/25190/
89
/151/
64
/404/
70
/30/
cc age 13+

The Lady in the Van (2015)
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
7.1
/4443/
73
/142/
68
/86/
3.3
/1846/
50
/10/
72
/117/

A Home of Our Own (1993)
In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.
poster
66
6.7
/22364/
75
/2347/
73
/1166/
2.9
/27353/
59
/79/
71
/590/
50
/14/
cc age 10+

A Dog's Way Home (2019)
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
poster
73
66
7.0
/3873/
67
/80/
62
/57/
3.6
/3947/
95
/57/
76
/253/
75
/10/

Samson and Delilah (2009)
Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges.
poster
64
6.3
/4351/
61
/59/
56
/62/
3.1
/1411/
75
/8/
62
/53/

Twenty Bucks (1993)
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
poster
65
63
6.7
/6110/
66
/309/
68
/66/
3.2
/20540/
84
/32/
59
/71/
49
/5/

The Salt Path (2025)
A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.7
/10631/
65
/146/
63
/139/
3.3
/4529/
58
/26/
58
/98/
56
/16/

Ironweed (1987)
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.6
/16993/
69
/1076/
65
/398/
3.0
/14844/
54
/73/

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015)
How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.
poster
71
61
7.3
/3110/
75
/68/
65
/43/
3.8
/3011/
73
/11/
85
/47/
55
/4/

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2001)
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
57
7.5
/2587/
73
/43/
68
/49/
3.8
/2338/
88
/8/
77
/23/

Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
poster
56
5.8
/914/
58
/21/
56
/16/
3.2
/424/
43
/7/
44
/10/

Distant Thunder (1988)
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son, he realizes that he has caused more damage than he had imagined.
poster
The CW
56
6.5
/5708/
64
/228/
59
/108/
3.0
/1770/
48
/23/
49
/41/
43
/11/

Shelter (2014)
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
poster
68
54
6.4
/3082/
68
/272/
67
/104/
3.1
/3006/
79
/19/
68
/6/
cc age 11+

A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.
poster
55
54
5.9
/4531/
77
/462/
72
/282/
2.2
/5120/
22
/9/
82
/260/
31
/6/
cc age 14+

I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
poster
74
53
6.9
/1528/
63
/28/
66
/19/
3.5
/9100/
95
/37/
82
/8/

Kontinental '25 (2025)
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
poster
Kanopy
73
53
7.5
/2203/
75
/107/
71
/41/
3.6
/7815/

Feeling Through (2019)
A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
poster
Hulu
53
4.9
/5119/
53
/409/
52
/149/
2.8
/7564/
73
/95/
35
/44/
62
/24/
cc age 15+

Amulet (2020)
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
6.4
/32782/
67
/996/
62
/290/
3.3
/37084/
21
/58/
66
/1171/
24
/15/

Dirty Work (1998)
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
poster
49
5.9
/1891/
59
/32/
61
/46/
3.1
/596/
9
/11/
57
/39/

Where the Heart Is (1990)
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
poster
The Roku Channel
75
44
6.9
/1861/
72
/66/
72
/27/
3.5
/1012/
94
/16/
75
/11/
cc age 14+

Hector (2015)
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
poster
Kanopy
79
40
7.6
/115/
74
/5/
100
/7/
88
/14/
59
/4/
cc age 13+

Lost in America (2019)
Following director Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth, as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America.
poster
71
40
6.9
/1095/
71
/49/
72
/29/
3.6
/2179/

Drifting (2021)
Just out of jail, Fai finds a spot on a street corner where other homeless people welcome him. But he doesn’t get much time to settle in. The police soon chase them away, and their possessions disappear into a garbage truck. Young social worker Ms. Ho thinks it’s time to fight this in court. In the meantime, Fai and his friends have other concerns.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
37
6.5
/671/
63
/28/
65
/16/
3.4
/206/
79
/14/
60
/49/
67
/8/

Children of Invention (2010)
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
poster
69
36
7.2
/734/
66
/21/
65
/31/
3.8
/1916/

The Fox and the Hare (1973)
Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.
poster
Kanopy
78
36
7.4
/672/
78
/52/
64
/10/
3.6
/356/
100
/7/
85
/22/

Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home (2012)
Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course - but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.
poster
65
31
6.2
/827/
67
/17/
65
/15/
3.8
/2890/
59
/20/

Reflections of Evil (2002)
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s, searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob, who now in the '90s is an obese watch seller suffering with sucrose intolerance.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
31
6.1
/1621/
52
/54/
57
/30/
3.1
/1069/
49
/25/

LolliLove (2004)
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
poster
Netflix
70
30
7.4
/546/
67
/27/
65
/15/
3.7
/10536/

The Best Mother in the World (2025)
To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin’s house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convinces the children that they are on a big and exciting adventure. When they arrive at her cousin’s house, they are warmly welcomed and fed. However, what initially seems like a safe haven soon turns out to be a trap. Gal realises that not only her own safety is at risk, but also the future of her children.
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
58
29
5.7
/2143/
63
/79/
59
/55/
3.1
/346/
52
/16/

Squatters (2014)
A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home.
poster
74
28
7.6
/869/
69
/39/
68
/15/
3.9
/4099/
80
/3/

Carts of Darkness (2008)
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing. Enduring hardships from everyday life on the streets of Vancouver, this sub-culture depicts street life as much more than stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The films takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face, and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.


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