Films about poverty

Parasite

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8.5

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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Capernaum

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your right...

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Joker

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8.4

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

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Bicycle Thieves

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can f...

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Pandora's Box

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet...

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Shoplifters

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.9

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learnin...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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Metro Manila

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, wh...

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