Life In The Slums Movies

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise...

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.

For those who thought "Reefer Madness" was the first exploitation movie you'll be interested to know that the genre was alive and well during the...

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the...

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the...

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his...

A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident...

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances.

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted...

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many...

Anwar Ahmed Zayed is a Pakistani sleeper cell activist, who tried to inflict terror using a series of bombings in five different places of Kolkata....

A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back...

A young, middle-class girl from the Philippines, Bona drops out of high school to follow Gardo, a minor actor in low-budget films. This decision...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall,...