Homelessness Movies

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...

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the November 22,...

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old...

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

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

Homeless veterans find family as they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while discovering...

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Aspiring business man is on the way to a meeting when he is disturbed by a man on the floor, after their brief encounter he tries to get on with his...

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...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California. We...

'Boykee' is a drug addict from the streets of Rotterdam, who manages to get himself into some serious trouble and he' s looking for a way out. Lea, a...

A homeless woman living in the tunnels below New York City survives on her own terms in the days leading up to a blizzard.

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

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

Djibi and Ange, two teenagers living on the streets, arrive at the Archipel, an emergency shelter in the heart of Paris. This documentary is a look...

A short documentary following the last 5 hours of a 59-years-old man, Ahmed before becoming homeless due to the late payments and bureaucracy by the...

In 1995, teen runaways Eddie and Miles are sent to New York City to deliver on a drug deal with the promise of easy money and a place to live. But...

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across...

After quitting her stable but soul-crushing job, Leigh passes her days in an apathetic fog until she decides to volunteer at a soup kitchen. There...