Homelessness Movies

After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter.

An indomitable spray dog takes as its territory the "home" of Matthew, a beggar immersed in solitude.

No Place to Grow Old is the first documentary to capture a growing crisis unfolding quietly across America: older adults aging into homelessness. Set...

Meet Lanz Priestley, a charasmatic homeless man, who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers taps have run dry in...

“Silent sufferers” This film tells a harrowing story of a young woman’s struggle with death and abuse. It is the story of a young...

Bullied in school, a young pupils life becomes a living hell.

In the spring of 2018, the filmmaker Maria Petschnig befriended Marc who at that time was living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while...

Documentary tells the story of Maxim Vakhmin, a veritable alleycat of a man. Revered as both an angel and a devil, Maxim (once known as a successful...

Located in Carcavelos, Quinta Nova de Santo António, or Quinta dos Ingleses, as it is recognized by the population, shelters a small community...

A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

Several street children in Berlin talk about their daily life, referring not only to drug addiction and physical/traumatic injuries, but also to...

Swords to Plowshares, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award). Swords to Plowshares is a...

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the...

SHELTER IN THE CITY is a documentary about homelessness that focuses on a father’s heartbreaking struggle to get his mentally ill son off the...

Where we come from shapes who we are, and how others see us. Home gives us a sense of belonging and stability. It’s so much more than just a...

Waifs, homeless, derelicts, almsmen, others, forgettens, outcasts, unwanteds. The Hotel of Waifs; a temporary resting place far from home, an...

In Elkton Maryland homeless people have been living in the woods for years. Tents provide their only shelter and dumpsters provide food. A filmmaker...