Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the owners are planning to sell the property, Jose seeks any solution that might keep his young daughter from growing up in the city's crime-sodden slums.

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Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In ...

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborh...

The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball unifor...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational o...

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the ...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...
Amy is taken on a impromptu camping trip by her Dad on her 15th Birthday. Along with her little brot...

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

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

In a desperate attempt to make their voices heard by the government, two men and a woman, living in ...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...