Homelessness Movies

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment,...

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells...

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

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...

A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.

Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened to know his mother's whereabouts, escaped from...

La Negra and Vicenta are two homeless women. After losing their place and belongings, they meet Pola, a younger woman who is starting out in a...

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.

In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, a group of friends lives on the streets. They call themselves the Freetown Streetboys, even though there...

A musician who lost his hands falls for a woman whose technologically adept friends help him make a comeback.

A documentary that chronicles Pras Michel's 9-day experience as a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. Given a dollar a day to live, his worldview...

Laid off due to the viral illness sweeping the globe, Byron is barely holding his life together. With eviction looming and his marriage crumbling, he...

A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his...

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Charlie Davis is a young woman recently released from a Minnesota psychiatric ward following a suicide attempt. After a move across the country to...

Poor high school students Toivo Päiviö and Unto Uramo solve their housing problems by enrolling in Sofia Andersson's boarding school. Toivo...

Ever since Pam Cheney (Cheryl Ladd) lost her baby during labor, she has been struggling with depression. She is not only supported by her loving, but...

People experiencing homelessness, social work professionals, and film artists join forces to transform fragments of real life into fictional short...

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social...