welfare [govt. aid]
  • Hysterical Blindness picture
    TV

    Hysterical Blindness (2002-2003)

    Three working class, New Jersey women go on a quest for love and meaning that threatens the very...

  • Claudine picture
    Movies

    Claudine (1974)

    A single woman (Diahann Carroll) with six children tries to make a life with a garbageman (James...

  • Dom Kallar Oss Mods picture
    Movies

    Dom Kallar Oss Mods

    Two young men talk about their rebellious lives.

  • The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat picture
    Movies

    The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

    Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more...

  • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie picture
    Movies

    Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)

    Two sloppy pot smokers (Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong) wander around Los Angeles and wind up in outer...

  • Enormous Changes at the Last Minute picture
    Movies

    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1985)

    New Yorkers Virginia (Ellen Barkin), Faith and Alexandra (Maria Tucci) have men problems in three...

  • Me & Veronica picture
    Movies

    Me & Veronica (1993)

    Story about two working-class sisters who grew up along the Jersey Shore. After five years of...

  • Ryan picture
    Movies

    Ryan

    An animated tribute to Canadian animator Ryan Larkin who, thirty years ago, produced some of the...

  • Bless Their Little Hearts picture
    Movies

    Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)

    Enduring the bleakness of the Watts unemployment office and occasional stints as a day laborer,...

  • The Whisperers picture
    Movies

    The Whisperers

    Familial problems and social-agency representatives disrupt the otherwise lonely existence of an...

  • Poverty Outlaw picture
    Movies

    Poverty Outlaw (1997)

    Focusing on Philadelphia women, who struggle to overcome the pitfalls of the welfare system, reveals...

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    Movies

    Winterblume

    A suspenseful tale of a Turkish man who, expelled from Germany, desperately tries to return to his...

  • Love and Diane picture
    Movies

    Love and Diane (2003)

    An exploration of the life of Diane Hazzard, a recovering crack addict and penitent parent....

  • Deep Waters picture
    Movies

    Deep Waters

    In this drama, filmed on location in Maine, the life of a young lobster fisherman is forever changed...

  • Love on the Dole picture
    Movies

    Love on the Dole

    A young Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr) tragically loves an out-of-work laborer (Clifford Evans) in a...

  • Tomorrow's Children picture
    Movies

    Tomorrow's Children

    Heralded as the "most daring, sensational drama ever filmed," this exploitation-melodrama is...

  • Always a Bridesmaid picture
    Movies

    Always a Bridesmaid

    The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The...

  • City Streets picture
    Movies

    City Streets

    This tragedy has pathos to spare as it presents the story of a crippled orphan who finds support in...

  • Clancy Street Boys picture
    Movies

    Clancy Street Boys (1943)

    Muggs has the rest of the gang (The East Side Kids) pose as his siblings to impress his rich uncle...

  • Henry Aldrich's Little Secret picture
    Movies

    Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

    Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series came to a quiet conclusion with 1944's Henry Aldrich's Little...

  • The Holly and the Ivy picture
    Movies

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers...

  • In Search of a Golden Sky picture
    Movies

    In Search of a Golden Sky

    Three children, who fear being put into a foster home after the death of their parents, take flight...

  • White Mama picture
    TV

    White Mama (1980)

    Bette Davis was Emmy Award-nominated for her performance of a penniless widow who refuses to go on...

  • The Woman Who Loved Elvis picture
    TV

    The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993)

    After her husband leaves her, a welfare recipient becomes obsessed with Elvis Presley.