Homelessness Movies

THE DEPARTMENT is a feature documentary which takes us inside the never-before-seen child protection system at work in NSW. Filmed in an...

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A....

A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked...

Two life, same human hearth.

James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.

Thomas Bach is on top of his game. A popular right-wing radio talk-show host and a hero of the Tea Party Movement, he is hand picked to run for the...

A homeless man finds the motivation to turn his life around after a stray dog saves his life and refuses to leave his side.

Located in Carcavelos, Quinta Nova de Santo António, or Quinta dos Ingleses, as it is recognized by the population, shelters a small community...

A homeless mother of two tries to scrape out a sense of dignity in a world that’s working against her.

“Silent sufferers” This film tells a harrowing story of a young woman’s struggle with death and abuse. It is the story of a young...

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

OB navigates a laundromat’s nighttime inhabitants while scavenging 50¢ to buy a Hero-themed gumball.

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 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...

Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he...

A wandering homeless man seizes an opportunity.

Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.