Keyword: poverty

The Ox

7.2

1991

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Swedish paupers family is starving. In desperation, he steals his lords ox. He hopes that the crime will not be revealed, but it happens.

Parachute Jumper

6.7

1933

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To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangsters mistress and ultimately becomes the gangsters bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographers job at Mr. Webers (the gangsters) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.

Meth Storm

6.7

2017

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[HBO] HD. This documentary looks at meth addiction in rural America from the perspective of dealers, users and law enforcement.

Crack House

5.6

1989

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Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.

Trash

5.7

1999

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Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two teenage friends realize that the only way for each of them to escape their miserable futures is by forever sacrificing the other.

Darwin's Nightmare

7.6

2004

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A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzanias Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

When Borat Came to Town

6.5

2008

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A look at what happened after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was filmed in the Romanian village of Glod. It follows the life of one girl who longs to escape the poverty as foreign lawyers arrive with the promise of suing 20th Century Fox for millions of dollars.

The Fifteen Streets

7

1989

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In northern England around 1900, the worker John OBrien lives near poverty in a small house in the workers district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

The Whisperers

7.2

1967

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Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.

With Love... from the Age of Reason

5.8

2010

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A career-driven businesswoman rethinks her life after getting letters that force her to reminisce a traumatic, yet romantic, upbringing.

Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

10

2020

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On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other residents of the neighborhood in gruesome ways. When the military is brought in to contain the situation, but realize they cant come up with a vaccine quickly enough, they fence off the area and let everyone die. A group of locals, stuck in the basement of their building, behind the fences, and separated from their family members, band together to try to survive.

Blackboards

7

2000

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Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clans lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; theyre mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?