Homelessness Movies

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the...

A documentary that chronicles Pras Michel's 9-day experience as a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. Given a dollar a day to live, his worldview...

Rita is a naive 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately,...

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...

A homeless man regularly attends a place where children play ball every afternoon. A caring link develops between them which drives him to change his...

Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19,...

Jörg is one of the many homeless living near the Vatican. But there is something unusual about him: he appears and talks like a sort of holy...

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...

Tweek City is a week in the life of Bill, a potentially closeted, half-Latino, small-time speed dealer in San Francisco's Mission District. Bill is...

Three men in modern Manchester spend each night sleeping in their cars. How did they end up in this situation? How do they cope? Michael Symmons...

After Murat is released from prison, he will do illegal deeds to help street kids.

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells...

Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of...

A celebrity reflects on his dark rise to fame.

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists....

After a failed relationship, a deadbeat man tries to live off the land in a beach town on Long Island.

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters,...

After getting released from prison, Eeva returns to her old home town with only a shoulder bag, cellphone and the clothes she is wearing. She wants...

Aspiring business man is on the way to a meeting when he is disturbed by a man on the floor, after their brief encounter he tries to get on with his...