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16 films tagged poverty
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2016 · Drama
Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.
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2019 · Thriller
A family with no money talk their way one by one into jobs with a rich household on the other side of the city. The first half plays as a con, and they are good at it.
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2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2002 · Crime
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
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2022 · Crime
A woman buried in student debt takes a cash job that turns out to be buying goods with stolen credit cards. It moves fast, stays right beside her, and keeps raising what she has to risk.
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2023 · Comedy
Two lonely people in Helsinki, both scraping by on bad jobs, meet at a karaoke bar and keep losing track of each other. Short, very quiet, deadpan, and in Finnish.
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2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
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2008 · Action
A quiet martial arts master in 1930s Foshan avoids fighting until the Japanese occupation leaves him nowhere to stand. Fights every ten minutes, and the rest is his household getting poorer.
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2001 · Musical
A village in colonial India can skip three years of tax if it beats the British garrison at cricket, a game none of them has played. Nearly four hours, with songs, and the last hour is the match.
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2004 · Drama
A waitress past thirty talks a stubborn old trainer into taking her on, and turns out to be worth the trouble. Slow and quiet, and almost all of it is three people around one gym.
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2020 · Drama
A seventeen-year-old from small-town Pennsylvania takes the bus to New York with her cousin to get an abortion she cannot get at home. Very little talking, and a great deal of waiting around.
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2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
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2018 · Drama
A family in Tokyo living off part-time work and small thefts takes in a little girl they find alone in the cold. It is quiet and slow, and most of it is the six of them crowded into a tiny house.
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2008 · Drama
A teenager from the Mumbai slums is one question from winning the country's biggest game show, and the police want to know how a boy like him has the answers. His whole life, out of order and fast.
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2019 · Comedy
A young man tells the story of his own life, from a bottle factory in London to a boat house on the coast and a run of people he cannot get out of his head. It jumps between times and places quickly, with a huge cast and a lot of jokes.
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2019 · Animation
A runaway teenager arrives in a Tokyo where the rain never stops and meets a girl who can clear the sky for a few hours at a time. Bright animation, pop songs, and a great deal of weather.
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