Homelessness Movies

Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable...

Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to...

A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like...

While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a...

Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable...

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...

Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even...

A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters,...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the...

A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon...

Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s, searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob, who now in the '90s is an...

A violated girl is trapped in an underworld of shame. As a child, she was exploited by her father and his friends, and then thrown to the streets as...

The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live...

dAVID, pETER, sUNSHINE, bROADWAY vIC, mARY, and fRANK have survived on the streets and been homeless for decades, as they join an ambitious...

This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they...

Nadia is a troubled teen girl kicked out of home by her surpassed mother and has nobody to turn to, until her High School's Principal Mr. Green...

Based on the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held...

Inspired by real stories, a young pastor, through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, follows his mission to help the homeless is faced with...