Keyword: homelessness

Dark Days

7.8

2000

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A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Lilies of the Field

7.7

1963

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A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Where the Heart Is

5.7

1990

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A wealthy businessman shows his young-adult offspring how tough life can be.

Vibrations

4.8

1996

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Rising rock star, TJ Cray, gets the shot of a lifetime, an audition with a A \u0026amp; R man. On the way into the city, a carload of drunks smash into his car, severing his hands. He drops out of the business and becomes a homeless drunk. Cray wakes up to a pulsing beat in an abandoned warehouse, where a \rave\ party is in full action. To his rescue comes Anamika, a computer artist, who takes him outside for fresh air. They become friends and eventually reinvent TJs career. With the help of friends, they replace his hands with prosthetics and design a metallic cyber looking suit. TJ quickly becomes an overnight sensation, known as Cyberstorm. The finale is a dramatic scenario where TJ has to make crucial decisions about his new life.

Hector

6.9

2015

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Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once-comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities, and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship, and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long-estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to live this marginal life emerges.

The Children Nobody Wanted

6.7

1981

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True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.

A Certain Sacrifice

2.6

1979

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A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

Carts of Darkness

6.8

2008

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This documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.

Squatters

5.8

2014

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Home early from their vacation, a wealthy Pacific Palisades family discovers a pair of homeless young drifters who were squatting in their home.

Samson and Delilah

7.1

2009

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A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.

Feeling Through

7.8

2019

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A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

A Hobo's Christmas

6.4

1987

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A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides its time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, hes expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.