Keyword: poverty

Taxi

7.4

2015

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Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

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.

The Corporate Coup D'État

7.3

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.

Scarborough

7.1

2021

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Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.

The Cabin in the Cotton

6.4

1932

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A tenant farmers son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owners seductive daughter.

Lawn Dogs

7.8

1997

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When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.

Young America

4

1932

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Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nuttys grandmother. The druggists wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears them arguing over him, Arthur runs away. When he returns Mr. Doray is being held up by bandits at the drugstore.

Bandit Queen

7.6

1994

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The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.

I Remember Mama

7.9

1948

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A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

Carrie

7.4

1952

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A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.

Europe '51

7.5

1952

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A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.

Coco Chanel

7

2008

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The life story of legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel.