The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

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A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

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A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

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In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

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At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job.

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A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

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John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent.

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Persone di diversa estrazione sociale si ritrovano in un alberghetto in mezzo al deserto dell'Arizona. La figlia del proprietario e uno scrittore s'innamorano. Arriva un gangster a seminare morte...

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Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River.

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An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

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

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In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

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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.

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The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

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A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2.

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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.

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The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a one-legged tramp whilst avoiding being picked up by the police for vagrancy.

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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.

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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.

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