Keyword: poverty

Curly Sue

5.7

1991

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A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.

Rapine

7.3

1975

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Two neighbors who had always lived in poverty witness a plane crash and decide to take anything they find valuable among the dead. They begin to experience greed.

Jacir

6.8

2022

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A young Syrian refugee faces hard truths chasing the American dream on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, while living in poverty, dealing with social injustice and witnessing his neighbors opioid addiction.

Devil's Island

6.4

1996

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The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.

Gebo and the Shadow

6.4

2012

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Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son.

Lute: Forge On or Die

6.6

1987

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First part of the history of El Lute, a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60s, converting himself in a popular legend.

The Man Who Invented Christmas

7.3

2017

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The journey that led to Charles Dickens creation of A Christmas Carol, a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.

The Corporate Coup D'État

7.7

2018

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THE CORPORATE COUP DÉTAT takes a complex political/historical theme and brings it to life. In the style of 13th, Manufacturing Consent, The Corporation, and All Governments Lie it creates a powerful cinematic experience that explains how President Trump is the result of failed neoliberal globalist policies, and a corporate coup détat in which corporations and billionaires were able to gradually take control of the political process in the U.S. and elsewhere. In the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges: Donald Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy. The creeping corporate coup détat that began 45 years ago is complete. It has destroyed the lives of tens of millions of Americans no longer able to find work that provides a living wage, cursed to live in chronic poverty. Threaded through the film are the stories of the ultimate victims - working class and poor people in sacrifice zones like Camden, New Jersey and Youngstown, Ohio. Many working-class whites voted twice for Barack Obama, in 08 and 12, but in 2016 they felt abandoned by the elites of both parties, and voted for Donald Trump who promised he would be different. Featuring Chris Hedges, the main voice of the film as he visits Americans fighting for change and Canadian author John Ralston Saul, who warned prophetically in 1995: We are now in the midst of a coup détat in slow motion. Democracy is weakening... corporatism is strengthening.

The Mouth of the Wolf

6.3

2009

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The story of a criminal Vincenzo and his trans lover Mary, who waited for him for many years while he served his prison sentence.

Three Songs for Benazir

6.5

2021

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Even as Shaistas love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.

India's forgotten people

6.3

2020

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The history and story of Indias proud but largely forgotten Gadia Lohar community is for the first time sensitively investigated and revealed.

Cyclo

7.3

1995

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When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a sex worker.