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Kanopy
89
8.6
/857997/
85
/13573/
84
/7895/
4.6
/959916/
91
/163/
97
/15603/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Kanopy
88
7.9
/93485/
79
/3517/
78
/2201/
4.3
/274626/
99
/230/
91
/198/
93
/40/
cc age 16+

Shoplifters (2018)
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3514/
81
/163/
74
/64/
4.4
/17109/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
poster
84
7.9
/328935/
76
/6110/
75
/3864/
4.1
/211022/
99
/228/
88
/15178/
80
/36/
cc age 18+

The Wrestler (2008)
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.8
/9129/
78
/133/
76
/230/
4.1
/7787/
95
/19/
86
/69/

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
On a northern Italian farm, Batistì and his wife decide to send their son Minec to school, sacrificing his help in the fields but hoping to break the cycle of poverty in the family. But when Minec’s shoe breaks while walking for miles, Batisti puts the family’s future at risk to replace the clog.
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Kanopy
80
7.6
/27820/
74
/1074/
73
/800/
4.0
/46298/
88
/157/
82
/40/
82
/29/
cc age 14+

Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
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Fandor
80
7.3
/5221/
71
/89/
69
/141/
3.7
/4293/
100
/11/
91
/77/

Raining Stones (1993)
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
poster
79
7.7
/12489/
72
/138/
72
/154/
3.9
/5309/
84
/25/
89
/109/

Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.
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Amazon Prime Video
78
7.5
/39885/
73
/704/
71
/479/
3.7
/13372/
88
/60/
87
/974/
75
/22/

Boy A (2008)
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
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Kanopy
78
7.8
/67642/
79
/2934/
77
/1486/
4.0
/83798/
92
/184/
85
/275/
78
/31/
cc age 15+

I, Daniel Blake (2016)
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
poster
fuboTV
77
6.6
/1254/
64
/90/
59
/29/
3.7
/10084/
97
/58/
73
/12/
84
/24/

Earth Mama (2023)
A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.
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Kanopy
77
7.1
/1348/
69
/62/
62
/36/
3.4
/6218/
89
/27/
79
/4/
82
/10/

Sócrates (2018)
After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.
poster
77
7.5
/103333/
75
/2934/
75
/1524/
4.2
/255154/
69
/193/
71
/3839/
67
/34/

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Kanopy
76
7.1
/13622/
72
/593/
72
/376/
3.5
/39155/
82
/96/
78
/48/
69
/23/
cc age 15+

The Old Oak (2023)
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
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Criterion Channel
82
75
7.8
/8949/
75
/150/
75
/175/
4.1
/17609/
90
/10/
92
/89/

Camera Buff (1979)
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
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Kanopy
75
7.0
/27998/
71
/905/
69
/600/
3.6
/15896/
88
/104/
78
/353/
66
/26/
cc age 16+

The Angels' Share (2012)
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
73
6.9
/17267/
70
/366/
67
/229/
3.5
/6596/
88
/33/
79
/314/

Gridlock'd (1997)
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
poster
76
72
7.4
/20009/
71
/212/
71
/272/
3.9
/16046/
84
/113/
72
/659/
87
/34/

The Child (2005)
A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.
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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
69
7.0
/6345/
65
/76/
62
/131/
3.5
/4113/
67
/63/
78
/117/
57
/19/

Bread and Roses (2000)
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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MGM Plus
69
7.1
/1688/
62
/24/
64
/30/
3.6
/982/
67
/6/
59
/17/

The Whisperers (1967)
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
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Kanopy
76
69
7.4
/6792/
71
/113/
69
/108/
3.7
/10650/
86
/21/
86
/126/

A Taste of Honey (1961)
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
poster
73
68
7.2
/8214/
69
/213/
70
/137/
3.7
/12300/
84
/4853/

Made in Britain (1983)
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
poster
74
67
7.5
/12278/
73
/170/
71
/166/
3.8
/8013/
79
/71/

Submarino (2010)
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.
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Criterion Channel
75
65
7.6
/5861/
71
/78/
75
/162/
3.8
/6848/
71
/14/
81
/40/

Il Grido (1957)
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
65
6.6
/14093/
67
/336/
67
/440/
3.4
/25988/
81
/21/
54
/190/
63
/5/

The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
poster
AMC+
72
64
7.0
/6510/
70
/101/
66
/118/
3.5
/2795/
86
/22/
71
/398/

It's a Free World... (2007)
Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.
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Fandor
78
61
7.6
/2432/
71
/46/
79
/46/
3.9
/3072/
89
/563/

Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
61
6.1
/9588/
61
/143/
57
/121/
3.2
/4060/
89
/28/
57
/485/
77
/9/

Little Fish (2005)
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
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Fandango at Home Free
75
59
7.0
/3265/
69
/44/
69
/81/
3.6
/1728/
90
/10/
83
/29/

The Navigators (2001)
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.
poster
73
58
7.0
/1671/
65
/32/
70
/38/
3.6
/1847/
89
/18/
81
/106/
70
/7/

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005)
Maxi, a boy on the cusp of his teens, is already comfortable with his homosexual feelings, with acceptance from his family. When Maxi is assaulted one evening, Victor, a police officer, comes to his aid. Maxi soon develops a crush on Victor, who shows a platonic affection for the young lad.
poster
67
56
6.9
/3430/
66
/93/
66
/315/
3.5
/2437/
66
/52/

A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
poster
74
55
7.5
/4707/
71
/43/
69
/31/
3.6
/1302/
86
/502/

The Bench (2000)
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
poster
63
54
6.2
/3821/
58
/114/
58
/77/
3.3
/1673/
76
/17/
58
/59/

Tony (2010)
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
poster
Netflix
78
52
7.3
/2888/
71
/121/
76
/97/
3.6
/9623/
98
/10/

The Boss: Anatomy of a Crime (2014)
This incredibly disturbing story follows the exploitation of an apprentice butcher, Hermógenes, and his trial after he murders his boss in broad daylight. Hermógenes, a farmhand from northern Argentina, relocates to Buenos Aires in search of a better life for himself and his young wife, but soon finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt boss. The film is based on a thorough investigation of a real event that happened in Buenos Aires 10 years ago. Almost every scene in the film is inspired by real facts or based on well documented daily practices of the “meat business” and its environment. Both a shocking exposé of unscrupulous practices in the meat industry and a heart-wrenching personal story, El Patrón became one of the most successful Argentine films of 2014.
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Kanopy
77
51
7.4
/2393/
74
/43/
78
/142/
3.8
/5826/
88
/16/

The Rose Seller (1998)
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.
poster
Criterion Channel
62
50
6.6
/3506/
62
/69/
58
/74/
3.5
/4289/
60
/15/
56
/25/

Identification of a Woman (1982)
Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.
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Criterion Channel
77
48
7.2
/1648/
66
/44/
67
/48/
3.8
/4445/
100
/5/
83
/2/

Adoption (1975)
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
poster
56
41
6.3
/2224/
61
/60/
61
/44/
3.2
/2796/
31
/109/

The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)
A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
7.0
/2015/
65
/79/
64
/64/
3.7
/6785/
62
/1/

Faster, Faster (1981)
Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.
poster
64
35
6.4
/2376/
60
/38/
59
/45/
3.5
/1189/
69
/11/

Eat Sleep Die (2012)
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
poster
72
33
7.1
/606/
70
/25/
74
/18/
3.8
/2420/

Caroline (2018)
In the middle of a Texas summer, plans for a babysitter fall through and six-year-old Caroline is left in charge of her two younger siblings.
poster
71
32
7.5
/1793/
69
/21/
71
/14/
3.6
/1423/

The Mine (1978)
When work accidents in a coal mine start to result in death, İlyas warns his colleagues working in the mine. It starts to collect signatures for the necessary measures to be taken, but the necessary solidarity among the workers cannot be established. A tent theater that comes to the region further complicates things.
poster
71
31
6.7
/520/
70
/11/
67
/20/
3.4
/759/
100
/6/
57
/2/

Gente de bien (2014)
Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.
poster
81
23
8.8
/2963/
74
/10/
78
/6/
3.7
/581/
92
/2/

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000)
The movie tells the story of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in shaping the Constitution of India, as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly. He dedicated his life to fight against the evils of untouchability.
poster
73
21
7.1
/607/
54
/10/
68
/11/
3.8
/1417/
100
/3/

This Is My Country (1984)
A laborer gets money for his wife's pregnancy from his boss on the condition that he will not join the union.
poster
69
21
7.3
/650/
71
/19/
64
/26/
3.5
/485/

Atlas (2018)
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.
poster
60
18
6.1
/750/
71
/76/
44
/16/
3.2
/601/

Godless (2016)
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.


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