The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs o...
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a de...
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese pr...
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...
A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he find...
In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man ...
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abd...
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wa...
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his ...
Lilya Michailova lives in poverty, dreaming of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States ...
A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tr...
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she re...