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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.
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Kanopy
79
7.8
/3204/
68
/74/
71
/26/
3.9
/1383/
95
/103/
85
/297/
80
/27/
cc age 8+

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
poster
Kanopy
76
6.8
/990/
68
/66/
67
/34/
3.8
/4622/
93
/54/
75
/5/
76
/13/

We Are Little Zombies (2019)
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.
poster
80
76
7.4
/5835/
72
/220/
66
/102/
3.9
/18888/
97
/66/
81
/41/
95
/15/
cc age 13+

Rocks (2019)
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
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Kanopy
80
71
7.4
/3451/
74
/160/
76
/103/
4.0
/26644/
100

Microhabitat (2018)
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.
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Kanopy
71
6.9
/3275/
63
/77/
63
/94/
3.9
/9934/
86
/37/
52
/16/

Stray Dogs (2014)
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.
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Criterion Channel
72
70
7.1
/16153/
68
/275/
67
/267/
3.8
/27765/
75
/51/
79
/234/
74
/13/

Code Unknown (2000)
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.
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Netflix
70
6.7
/22145/
70
/1510/
67
/742/
3.3
/24217/
85
/54/
69
/128/
63
/19/
cc age 17+

Tallulah (2016)
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.
poster
78
69
7.6
/11902/
71
/115/
74
/78/
3.8
/9922/
94
/527/

Somersault in a Coffin (1996)
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.
poster
69
6.8
/10088/
68
/419/
65
/183/
3.7
/43549/
89
/70/
66
/60/
75
/22/

Heaven Knows What (2015)
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.
poster
66
6.4
/4084/
55
/66/
58
/45/
3.2
/2644/
69
/103/
61
/87/
70
/28/
cc age 17+

Personal Velocity (2002)
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
poster
66
6.8
/2229/
71
/42/
63
/48/
3.6
/2687/
50
/16/
79
/17/

Poor Cow (1967)
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.
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Netflix
67
63
6.3
/4419/
65
/260/
63
/124/
2.9
/10413/
100
/6/
58
/34/
cc age 13+

Lead Me Home (2021)
Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.
poster
80
62
6.9
/133/
79
/173/
84
/69/
4.0
/15826/
83
/6/
84
/25/
85
/5/

Stranger Things (2013)
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.
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Hulu
61
6.0
/20949/
61
/1977/
59
/277/
2.9
/98205/
73
/62/
57
/174/
59
/13/
cc age 15+

Self Reliance (2024)
When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.
poster
60
6.3
/1897/
56
/35/
52
/24/
3.3
/488/
54
/13/
56
/36/

Johns (1996)
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.
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Netflix
59
5.9
/13978/
61
/973/
60
/217/
2.7
/27042/
51
/61/
41
/109/
60
/15/
cc age 15+

Night Always Comes (2025)
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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AMC+
59
58
5.9
/12780/
60
/442/
61
/323/
3.0
/20449/
55
/11/
60
/361/

Street Trash (1987)
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.
poster
58
6.4
/18154/
63
/477/
62
/276/
3.2
/7365/
49
/81/
41
/275/
53
/27/
cc age 17+

Being Flynn (2012)
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.
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The Roku Channel
76
55
7.6
/2994/
78
/175/
76
/65/
3.4
/1859/
82
/14/

Beyond the Blackboard (2011)
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.
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Starz
56
55
5.7
/8577/
68
/339/
62
/133/
2.7
/1950/
37
/35/
76
/1127/
43
/15/
cc age 13+

Good Deeds (2012)
For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.
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MGM Plus
54
5.9
/12126/
63
/380/
56
/210/
2.9
/6547/
25
/20/
45
/207/
54
/19/

Life Stinks (1991)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
5.7
/14493/
66
/1752/
59
/590/
2.6
/5055/
64
/11/
27
/42/
49
/4/

Acts of Vengeance (2017)
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.
poster
71
53
7.4
/4424/
72
/43/
70
/69/
3.6
/1031/
71
/67/

All the Invisible Children (2006)
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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The Roku Channel
53
6.2
/81053/
65
/3496/
61
/1799/
2.8
/19104/
50
/50/
38
/407/
43
/14/

Hummingbird (2013)
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.
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Netflix
64
51
6.5
/4081/
69
/258/
69
/118/
3.2
/16728/
44
/9/
77
/8/
cc age 14+

Dream (2023)
With hard work and dedication on lock, a group of homeless men trains to compete in a global tournament — despite a cranky coach.
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Amazon Prime Video
54
51
5.2
/9190/
54
/218/
52
/191/
3.1
/18355/
64
/14/
32
/306/
66
/8/

The Driller Killer (1979)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
48
6.6
/3215/
63
/103/
58
/62/
3.4
/846/
62
/21/
66
/40/
50
/11/

A Bag of Hammers (2011)
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.
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Kanopy
46
5.4
/4572/
51
/176/
48
/89/
2.6
/2182/
42
/50/
26
/81/
50
/17/
cc age 18+

Child of God (2014)
A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
43
5.6
/317/
64
/5/
54
/15/
100
/16/
98
/33/

Ekaj (2015)
EKAJ is a love story between two drifters, a naive teenager and a hustler. Ekaj meets Mecca who takes him under his care. Mecca has AIDS and multiple problems of his own. He is high all day but still manages to be the only voice of reason in Ekaj’s hopeless world. They cruise the city together looking for money and places to stay. Although Ekaj makes some money as a prostitute, he finds himself discarded, and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Their mutual loneliness leads to genuine friendship.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
41
4.6
/1149/
52
/88/
44
/12/
2.5
/3995/
60
/10/
50
/4/

Street Trash (2025)
A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
64
39
6.6
/1742/
72
/74/
64
/28/
2.8
/2998/

Mr. Stink (2012)
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.
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JustWatchTV
63
39
6.1
/1023/
60
/50/
67
/44/
3.3
/4327/

Descent Into Darkness (2013)
A journalist from an Eastern European country arrives in Paris to start a tour of European capitals. His intention is to make a documentary about the European dream. Between fascination and difficulty of adaptation, Sorgoï struggles to complete his project and his expedition drives him to a devastating state of madness.
poster
Hoopla
59
36
4.2
/291/
55
/23/
47
/19/
92
/13/
61
/38/

Tag (2015)
Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his blood brother Jacob. Billy and Rae are boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the dismay of Jacob who has always loved Rae from afar. Billy's philosophy of life, and how that interfaces with having a deadly virus, comes to a head when Billy and Jacob compete in a very unique game of "Tag", with the future of Rae and "the family" dependent upon the outcome.
poster
Kanopy
74
27
7.2
/629/
70
/35/
73
/10/
3.4
/341/
90
/10/
74
/6/

Queen Mimi (2016)
Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found "home" at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi's passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood's red carpets.
poster
62
22
7.0
/350/
55
/5/
40
/4/
75
/108/

Eldorado (1995)
This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink's office that she has no time to listen to the doctor's advice.
poster
67
22
6.0
/754/
71
/42/
71
/11/
3.2
/536/
67
/9/
73
/1/

Dublin Oldschool (2018)
Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
21
6.9
/626/
69
/29/
73
/19/
3.5
/1000/
88
/2/
cc age 8+

How to Steal a Dog (2014)
Ji-so, a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plan to steals wealthy people's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.
poster
48
15
5.4
/371/
26
/3/
36
/9/
76
/20/

Row Your Boat (1999)
Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he must try to build his life up from the gutter. Resisting constant offers from his brother, played by William Forsythe (Dick Tracy, The Rock, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo) to rejoin the insidious world of crime, Meadows takes a menial job as a door to door census worker. Among his many encounters throughout this job, he meets a young Chinese immigrant who is just as unhappy in her life as he is in his. These two slowly hit it off and a relationship gradually begins to develop between them. Can Jamey Meadows learn to live in this new life, or will the temptations of his old ways drag him back to where he started?
poster
61
15
5.8
/265/
60
/14/
62
/18/
3.2
/555/

Rascal (2021)
Djé arrives in Paris without money, with its charm as only weapon. He seized every opportunity to work, love, sleep. And to kill...
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Fandango at Home Free
38
13
5.0
/685/
59
/11/
45
/13/
20
/5/
35
/10/
22
/5/

Prince of Central Park (2000)
A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.
poster
65
13
6.3
/698/
67
/12/
53
/12/
77
/8/

Bliss (2012)
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
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The Roku Channel
58
13
6.9
/694/
53
/19/
60
/15/
52
/5/

Ellen Foster (1997)
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
poster
58
12
5.6
/572/
60
/18/
61
/9/
2.9
/546/

Panchavarnathatha (2018)
The story of a bird charmer as he goes on to influence the lives of people while witnessing a change in his own.
poster
The Roku Channel
52
12
5.8
/554/
60
/32/
50
/19/
42
/5/

The Stranger in Us (2010)
In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
poster
62
11
7.5
/1201/
70
/1/
70
/5/
36
/6/

Phantom (2013)
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...
poster
50
10
4.2
/438/
51
/35/
41
/19/
3.1
/303/
57
/3/

Parasites (2016)
A group of friends get lost in the seedy streets where they encounter a crazed gang of homeless derelicts that seizes them and kills them one by one. The surviving man escapes on foot, naked and unarmed, with a pack of depraved transients in pursuit, and only seconds away from capture.
poster
Kanopy
67
9
7.2
/98/
63
/3/
60
/1/
3.7
/772/

The Salt Mines (1990)
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as "The Salt Mines".


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