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Movies: Best "life in the slums" Movies


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Angela's Ashes(1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 25min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 131 votes)

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

Capernaum(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 716 votes)

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.

Directed by Nadine Labaki - With Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw

Queen of Katwe(2016)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 188 votes)

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga, Ntare Mwine, Maurice Kirya, Charity Rose Pimer, ...

Some Time Later(2018)

3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it. (Sequel to “Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing,” 1989.)

Raman Raghav 2.0(2016)

2h 14min | Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 51 votes)

A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.

Directed by Anurag Kashyap - With Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vipin Sharma, Amruta Subhash, Ashok Lokhande, ...

En tus manos(2010)

28min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the vicious slums of Colombia, where prosperity is dictated by brutality, a conflicted kid seeks membership in a brutal gang, with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny.

Directed by Ron Raphael Jacobs

Metro Manila(2013)

1h 51min | Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
3.7/5 (with 69 votes)

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.

Directed by Sean Ellis - With John Arcilla, Leon Miguel

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets(2000)

1h 39min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Mere Pyare Prime Minister(2019)

1h 44min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident with his mother.

Ossos(1997)

1h 34min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

Respect(2017)

1h 40min | Music, Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumstance?

Directed by Treb Monteras II - With Abra, Chai Fonacier

Birth of the Tramp(2013)

3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.

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The Forbidden Street(1949)

1h 30min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

The Corporate Coup D'État(2018)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insights of experts with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the Midwest where the steel industry once flourished, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate. It is here where Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters.

2016: Part 1(2010)

2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

In 2010, a scientist discovers aliens in orbit that resemble a cross between H.R. Giger's famous creation and Predator who want to invade Earth. They choose to start their invasion in Ghana because it is the most peaceful nation on the planet. The murderous aliens claim that they will have the entire planet colonized by the year 2016.

Directed by Samuel K. Nkansah - With Kyeiwaa

Notes on a True Story(1953)

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.

Directed by Luchino Visconti

Complexo: Parallel Universe(2011)

1h 20min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a maior operação policial já realizada no estado, sentiram na pele como é a vida de um simples morador. O filme retrata este perigoso e complexo mundo, um universo paralelo inserido dentro de uma ordem maior, um mundo à parte, que segue uma ordem diferente da ordem global.

Directed by Mário Patrocínio

Off the Record(1939)

1h 2min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Build Thy House(1920)

50min | Drama

A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.

Directed by Fred Goodwins - With Henry Ainley, Ann Trevor, Warwick Ward, Claude Rains

School Town King(2020)

3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances.

Young Cain(1959)

2h 2min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.

Directed by Román Chalbaud