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Hummingbird(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 740 votes)

Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

Dream(2023)

2h 5min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the 'Homeless World Cup'. A documentary producer So-min films their story while Hong-dae struggles to coach the homeless because of his misconceptions about them.

Directed by Lee Byeong-heon - With Park Seo-joon, IU, Kim Jong-soo, Ko Chang-seok, Jung Seung-kil, Lee Hyun-woo, ...

Acts of Vengeance(2017)

1h 27min | Thriller, Action, Drama
3.0/5 (with 241 votes)

A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

Tallulah(2016)

1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 328 votes)

Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.

The Driller Killer(1979)

1h 36min | Drama, Horror
2.6/5 (with 71 votes)

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Abel Ferrara

Microhabitat(2018)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 35 votes)

Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.

Code Unknown(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

Life Stinks(1991)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 82 votes)

A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.

Beyond the Blackboard(2011)

1h 40min | Kids & Family, Drama
3.9/5 (with 25 votes)

Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new teacher and Mom who is given a tougher than expected teaching job and winds up teaching homeless children in a school that is housed in a room and called, literally, The School with No Name. She has some personal prejudicial hurdles to cross before she is able to be a true teacher for these children and of course there are hurdles like the lack of books and supplies.

Directed by Jeff Bleckner - With Emily VanCamp

Street Trash(1987)

1h 40min | Comedy, Horror
3.1/5 (with 129 votes)

A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.

Directed by J. Michael Muro - With R. L. Ryan, James Lorinz, Patrick James Ryan, Tony Darrow, Pat Ryan

Being Flynn(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 113 votes)

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

All the Invisible Children(2005)

2h 4min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

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Heaven Knows What(2015)

1h 37min | Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 67 votes)

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

Stranger Things(2013)

1h 17min | Drama
4.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Oona, a recent graduate in anthropology, has returned to her dead mother’s seaside cottage in southern England to prepare it for sale. Her arrival disturbs Mani, a wary vagrant who has been squatting on the property.

Directed by Eleanor Burke, Ron Eyal

Rocks(2019)

1h 34min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.

Directed by Sarah Gavron - With Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, Ruby Stokes

Stray Dogs(2014)

2h 18min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.

We Are Little Zombies(2019)

2h | Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.

Directed by Makoto Nagahisa - With Keita Ninomiya, Satoshi Mizuno, Sena Nakajima, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Youki Kudoh, Sosuke Ikematsu, ...

Poor Cow(1967)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.

Personal Velocity(2002)

1h 26min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

Mr. Stink(2012)

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Chloe recedes into herself due to her family's uncaring attitude towards her. When she meets Mr. Stink, a smelly man, she invites him to live in her garden shed.

Directed by Declan Lowney - With Sheridan Smith

A Bag of Hammers(2011)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.

Directed by Brian Crano - With Jason Ritter

Anonymous(2004)

1h 22min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.

Somersault in a Coffin(1996)

1h 16min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 29 votes)

Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.

Directed by Derviş Zaim - With Tuncel Kurtiz

Bliss(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Johns(1996)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.

Almost Home(2019)

1h 32min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A teenage girl flees abuse at home to join a strong but troubled young woman that’s been living on the streets. She joins a de facto family of other homeless youth struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles.

Forgotten(2016)

53min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

From the glitzy sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard to the urban wasteland of Skid Row, "Forgotten" portrays the cruel reality of being homeless in Los Angeles and how these men and women cope with life on the streets of one of America's largest cities.

Directed by Nadia Ali, Kayla Eva

Aar Paar(1954)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Kalu is a taxi-driver in Bombay, India. He has two women who love him and would like to marry him. Kalu first wants to establish himself, and become rich, before he can even think of marriage. One of the women who loves him, has a father who is involved in gangster-type activities, and would like Kalu also to join him so that he can get rich soon. Kalu has now to decide to become rich quick or sleep better.

Dwellers(2021)

1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.

Directed by Drew Fortier - With Drew Fortier, James L. Edwards, Douglas Esper, David Ellefson

A Hobo's Christmas(1987)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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 Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.

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