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84
8.4
/121040/
83
/2682/
81
/1879/
4.2
/114476/
90
/181/
93
/198/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
85
84
8.2
/23349/
80
/426/
80
/514/
4.2
/49365/
91
/43/
95
/281/

The Young and the Damned (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
poster
84
8.0
/903299/
78
/17115/
77
/11014/
3.9
/602105/
92
/286/
90
/50238/
84
/36/
cc age 16+

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
poster
Kanopy
82
7.9
/38842/
76
/792/
74
/462/
4.0
/20955/
93
/45/
95
/1698/
77
/20/
cc age 17+

Once Were Warriors (1994)
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.6
/126287/
73
/3044/
72
/1980/
3.9
/239762/
92
/115/
84
/5795/
86
/17/
cc age 11+

West Side Story (1961)
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
poster
82
7.8
/8923/
73
/221/
73
/136/
3.9
/10713/
96
/79/
90
/341/
83
/27/

Bus 174 (2002)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
poster
79
7.9
/745067/
77
/23601/
74
/10003/
3.8
/490745/
90
/309/
82
/39343/
81
/36/
cc age 17+

District 9 (2009)
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
poster
83
77
8.5
/6997/
83
/258/
80
/215/
4.3
/37517/

Isle of Flowers (1989)
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
poster
77
7.9
/46455/
77
/728/
73
/197/
3.7
/22757/
96
/26/
81
/72/
65
/4/
cc age 14+

Gully Boy (2019)
A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/32183/
72
/531/
69
/334/
3.5
/11028/
82
/130/
86
/1673/
70
/35/
cc age 17+

Tsotsi (2005)
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
74
7.6
/9221/
73
/172/
73
/255/
3.9
/12698/
92
/13/
89
/57/
78
/8/

Miracle in Milan (1951)
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
7.3
/8179/
69
/114/
70
/144/
3.7
/8905/
73
/11/
77
/85/

Dodes'ka-den (1970)
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.2
/16773/
71
/416/
70
/288/
3.6
/9025/
74
/81/
78
/697/
63
/25/
cc age 17+

City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
8.0
/117443/
82
/3885/
80
/2595/
4.0
/165982/
51
/35/
87
/1368/
33
/7/

Elite Squad (2007)
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
66
7.4
/11245/
71
/227/
70
/40/
3.6
/18571/
100
/6/
90
/16/

Maaveeran (2023)
After a head injury, cowardly newspaper cartoonist Sathya hears a voice in his mind, foretells events and puts him in precarious situations and forces him to take on a corrupt politician.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
66
7.2
/6343/
70
/102/
71
/138/
3.6
/6558/
83
/6/
79
/84/

The Lower Depths (1957)
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
65
7.5
/3882/
73
/63/
72
/76/
3.7
/3785/
89
/9/
81
/40/

The Lower Depths (1936)
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
64
7.5
/2336/
73
/73/
70
/63/
4.0
/11425/
100
/11/
96
/25/

Insiang (1976)
A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
64
7.8
/3064/
81
/107/
72
/67/
4.2
/18611/
100
/11/
87
/16/

Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
poster
77
60
7.9
/5293/
75
/62/
79
/36/
3.8
/6470/

Madras (2014)
A portrayal of the lives of the people living in North Madras, focusing on the politics inside the slums and how their plight remains the same, despite the political class luring them constantly during elections.
poster
69
60
7.0
/5781/
67
/92/
63
/115/
3.3
/1925/
79
/19/
73
/271/

The Zone (2007)
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.
poster
MGM Plus
59
6.2
/2483/
75
/75/
58
/27/
3.2
/2351/
29
/21/
75
/120/

Mahogany (1975)
An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
poster
78
58
7.8
/4859/
77
/73/
72
/62/
4.0
/5879/
86
/18/

Awaara (1951)
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.
poster
63
57
6.5
/4741/
66
/140/
64
/92/
3.5
/19526/
60
/55/
57
/156/
61
/20/

Lower City (2005)
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
poster
75
54
7.0
/1500/
78
/111/
75
/82/
3.6
/8671/
83
/29/

Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
poster
The Roku Channel
54
5.7
/6965/
63
/200/
59
/120/
2.7
/3379/
45
/104/

The Super (1991)
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
53
7.0
/1865/
68
/50/
69
/49/
4.0
/5189/
100
/5/
70
/10/

In Vanda's Room (2001)
An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
poster
68
49
7.2
/3121/
68
/41/
68
/40/
3.4
/883/
71
/7/
61
/36/

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
poster
75
48
7.8
/946/
73
/27/
80
/29/
3.9
/2644/
71
/227/

Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
poster
71
47
7.1
/2136/
65
/34/
68
/34/
3.6
/3024/
75
/8/
78
/11/

Man's Castle (1933)
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
poster
62
43
6.4
/3006/
69
/46/
63
/50/
3.1
/1161/
54
/44/

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
poster
70
42
7.1
/675/
75
/10/
58
/8/
68
/19/
88
/85/
65
/7/

Favela Rising (2005)
A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
poster
73
26
7.4
/1070/
77
/38/
65
/19/
3.8
/801/

Megacities (1998)
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
poster
62
24
7.1
/381/
60
/10/
63
/18/
3.9
/1481/
40
/15/

Noisy Requiem (1988)
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
23
6.9
/585/
81
/6/
62
/10/
64
/113/

They Shall Have Music (1939)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
poster
63
22
6.4
/711/
60
/9/
59
/7/
62
/250/

Dayavan (1988)
A tale of near Biblical proportions, telling the story of Dayavan, a heroic do-gooder who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate then himself.
poster
Kanopy
73
19
7.3
/303/
75
/15/
67
/7/
3.5
/3012/
80
/1/

Respect (2017)
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?
poster
59
17
6.4
/233/
44
/5/
64
/8/
3.2
/1377/

Stip & Pensil (2017)
Toni, Aghi, Bubu, and Saras get the task of making essays. They create a free school for street children but they chose to earn money than learn.
poster
70
13
7.3
/332/
66
/8/
65
/10/
4.0
/577/

P for Pelican (1972)
An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of.
poster
55
9
6.6
/319/
61
/11/
63
/10/
3.4
/473/
20
/1/

Something in the Air (2002)
Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.
poster
64
9
6.6
/460/
65
/6/
68
/12/
3.5
/253/
53
/1/

Soul Boy (2010)
Abila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternize with her. And then one drunken night his father gambles away his own soul.
poster
68
?
7.3
/48/
40
/2/
90
/1/
3.5
/308/

Hong Kong’s Secret City (1988)
Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no order, the ‘walled city’. Never before has a television crew been allowed to enter this labyrinth. Christa Wesemann, an Austrian documentary filmmaker, has achieved this for the first time. The recordings from the ‘walled city’ are breathtaking pictures, as it has never seen the world. The history and daily flow in Walled City are ruled by the ‘triad’, a Chinese crime syndicate.
poster
?
7.9
/16/

One Day One Day (2022)
Thousands of undocumented migrants are illegally employed and exploited in the Italian crops to grow Italy's food. One Day One Day follows their lives from the inside of Italy's biggest slum.
poster
?
100
/1/

Slum Rat (2021)
A fictional underworld employing minors in Colombo, Sri Lanka
poster
?
60
/1/

São Vito (2019)
Story about the imposing building Edifício São Vito, a mark on the center of São Paulo gentrification system. The building was demolished in 2011, with many families being deallocated after an agreemente with the city town that was never accomplished.
poster
?
10
/1/

Heimliche Ehen (1956)
N/A
poster
?
6.5
/15/

For Kibera! (2015)
Boy Dallas lives in the slum of Kibera, the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. He is a radio host, "The Voice of Kibera." Dallas is a self-taught cameraman, and with a spare camera, he sets out to find out why the neighborhood, which has long been the target of aid, is still in such terrible trouble.
poster
?
6.1
/47/

New Towns for Old (1942)
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.


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