Homelessness Movies

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Sovie...

A thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like Peter...

How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participate...

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 ob...

Director invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help the...

A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at...

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Of...

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 discov...

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless in one of the richest parts of...

Florence, a hapless musician, takes three homeless teens off the streets of Los Angeles and into her care only to realize she has to overcome her own...

A lowly comic book shop owner discovers a mysterious young woman loitering in his shop, leading to an unlikely friendship.

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 i...

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the r...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

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

A seedy downtown bar on a quiet Sunday morning becomes a battleground for Armageddon, when a batch of bad booze contaminates the alcohol supply of the...

A documentary following an Appalachian family’s struggle with opioid addiction over several years.

Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explore...

Amy is taken on a impromptu camping trip by her Dad on her 15th Birthday. Along with her little brother, the endless summer turns into an inescapable...