In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

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.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent, criminal life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1920s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Poverty, Urban Blight, Homelessness

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