poverty
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory picture
    Movies

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

    A poor boy (Freddie Highmore) and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of...

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    Movies

    Rent (2005)

    Artists, junkies and misfits in New York's East Village struggle with poverty, illness and the AIDS...

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    Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

    Kentucky teen Loretta Webb (Sissy Spacek) marries Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) and becomes...

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    Beautiful Boxer (2005)

    A Thai man (Asanee Suwan) who wants to have a sex-change operation becomes a champion kickboxer.

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    Evita (1996)

    President Juan Peron's (Jonathan Pryce) wife (Madonna) achieves cult-figure status in Argentina...

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    L' Enfant (2006)

    A directionless couple (Jérémie Renier, Déborah François) must deal with life-changing...

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    Movies

    Ask the Dust (2006)

    In Depression-era Los Angeles, a fiery Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) who wants to improve her lot...

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    How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    Five Oscars went to John Ford's adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel chronicling the life of a...

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    The Jerk (1979)

    A simpleton (Steve Martin) leaves his foster family, acquires a girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and...

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    The Promoter

    The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release...

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    Romulus, My Father (2008)

    A woman's (Franka Potente) increasingly erratic behavior affects her husband (Eric Bana), her lover...

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    Movies

    American Heart (1993)

    An ex-convict (Jeff Bridges) and his teenage son (Edward Furlong) reunite and try to make it on the...

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    The Hip Hop Project (2007)

    Chris ``Kharma Kazi'' Rolle founds a music program for New York's at-risk youth and encourages them...

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    Movies

    Crack House (1989)

    A gang member goes undercover for the police to nail a drug lord (Jim Brown) who has corrupted his...

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    Movies

    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    A Hollywood director's desire to produce a film about real people and human suffering leads him on...

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn picture
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    A poor couple's (Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn) daughter (Peggy Ann Garner) dreams of a better life in...

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    Movies

    Kidulthood

    A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

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    Black Girl (1972)

    An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster...

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    Movies

    Dodeskaden (1971)

    Life goes on for the people in a shantytown on the edge of Tokyo.

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    Movies

    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...

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    Movies

    The Sleep Dealer (2009)

    Three strangers try to connect in a world of closed borders and virtual labor.

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    Movies

    Porgy and Bess (1959)

    Adaptation of the famous play/opera about life in a black neighborhood known as "Catfish Row" in...

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    Movies

    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    An impoverished family (Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen) decides to return to Ireland from...

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    Movies

    Nights of Cabiria (1998)

    An aging Roman streetwalker (Giulietta Masina) meets a movie star (Amedeo Nazzari) and a man...

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    Movies

    Golden Door (2007)

    An Italian (Vincenzo Amato) and his two sons leave their rural home in Sicily and begin an exciting...

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    Movies

    City of God (2003)

    After forming a gang in Rio de Janeiro, a young man and his best friend descend from robbery to drug...

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    Movies

    Striptease (1996)

    A stripper (Demi Moore) seeking custody of her daughter becomes involved with a libidinous...

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    Movies

    Kingpin (1996)

    A one-handed salesman (Woody Harrelson), an Amish farm boy (Randy Quaid) and a pretty con artist...

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    People

    Fontaine Mah

    Fontaine Mah worked in Sound on the movie Poverty Outlaw.

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    People

    Frank Cardon Jr

    Frank Cardon Jr was a Cinematographer for the movie Poverty Outlaw.