Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.

Shelter

2014

English

6.5

♡ 29

48%

manhattan, new york city

nigerian

Paul Bettany Director

Gameela Wright as Advisor

Andrew Polk as Doctor

Jennifer Connelly as Hannah

Anthony Mackie as Tahir

Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.

Hector

2015

English

6.9

♡ 6

94%

Jake Gavin Director

Stephen Tompkinson as Derek

Gina McKee as Lizzie

Ewan Stewart as Peter

Sharon Rooney as Young Mother

Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.

The Playground

2017

English

4.4

♡ 5

88%

Edreace Purmul Director

Ryleigh Mangen as Foster School Girl #5

Ghadir Mounib as Jill

Shane P. Allen as Mr. Vaugn

Myles Cranford as Old Homeless Man

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

Redemption

2013

English

6.2

♡ 96

50%

Steven Knight Director

Youssef Kerkour as Bouzanis

Aaron Ly as Cantonese Man

Jason Statham as Joey

Benedict Wong as Mr. Choy

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.

Curly Sue

1991

English

5.9

♡ 21

13%

John Hughes Director

John Ashton as Frank Arnold

Kelly Lynch as Grey Ellison

Barbara Tarbuck as Mrs. Arnold

Steve Carell as Tesio

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1986

English

6.2

♡ 10

77%

los angeles, california

remake

swimming pool

wealth

Paul Mazursky Director

Felton Perry as Al

Richard Dreyfuss as Dave Whiteman

Valerie Curtin as Pearl Waxman

Bobby Good as Security Alarm Dispatcher

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To

2020

English

6.0

♡ 16

98%

Jonathan Cuartas Director

Patrick Fugit as Dwight

Anthony Pedone as Homeless Man

Ingrid Schram as Jessie

Owen Campbell as Thomas

Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their little brother Thomas, a sickly child with a mysterious affliction.

Dwellers

2021

English

2.9

♡ 2

traveling through a sewer

underground

Drew Fortier Director

William S. Tribell as Cracker Jack

Dave Ellefson as David Ellefson

Frederick Husar as Diesel

James L. Edwards as James

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.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947

English

7.6

♡ 3

Roy Del Ruth Director

Victor Moore as Aloysius T. McKeever

Don DeFore as Jim Bullock

Charles Ruggles as Michael J. O'Connor

Alan Hale Jr. as Whitey Temple

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Lead Me Home

2021

English

6.3

♡ 3

100%

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.

Mala Noche

1986

English

6.5

♡ 7

96%

Gus Van Sant Director

Steve Foster as

Robert Lee Pitchlynn as Drunk Man

George Conner as Featured Wino

Gus Van Sant as Guy at Hotel

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.

The Professional

1981

French

7.4

♡ 23

81%

husband wife relationship

Georges Lautner Director

Elisabeth Margoni as Jeanne Baumont

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'

Robert Hossein as Le commissaire Rosen

Jean Desailly as Le ministre

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

Amores Perros

2000

Spanish

8.0

♡ 79

93%

Alejandro González Iñárritu Director

Adriana Barraza as Mama Octavio

Gael García Bernal as Octavio

Marco Pérez as Ramiro

Goya Toledo as Valeria

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.

Drillbit Taylor

2008

English

5.7

♡ 39

26%

parent child relationship

prison

Steven Brill Director

Vincent Laresca as Fence

Katie Gill as Hot Girl

Leslie Mann as Lisa

Kevin Hart as Pawn Shop Employee

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

Streets of Plenty

6.1

Corey Ogilvie Director

Gregor Robertson as Self - Interviewee

Gabor Maté as Self - Interviewee

Thomas Kerr as Self - Interviewee

Misha Kleider as Self - Narrator

With the 2010 Olympics approaching, will the world get to know Vancouver's darkest secret? 'Streets of Plenty' chronicles one man's perilous journey to live in Vancouver's downtown east side ghetto. The rules of this twisted social experiment? Starting with only a pair of underwear, he must survive the harsh winter streets for 31 days. He has no money, no friends, no family, and most importantly, no home. He must navigate the institutions, policies and services alongside the thousands of people that call Vancouver's streets home.

Beat

2022

English

5.5

♡ 4

Jye Currie Director

Brendan Bacon as Adam

John Wood as Dr. Mordon

Alexandra Jensen as Ellie

Rachael Carpani as Susan

After a heart transplant a young woman finds herself connecting with a homeless man through classical music. Throughout a series of dramatic performances and emotional events the two worlds begin to merge as one.

Miracle in Milan

1951

Italian

7.6

♡ 2

92%

89%

angel

based on novel or book

Vittorio De Sica Director

Arturo Bragaglia as Alfredo

Emma Gramatica as La vecchia Lolotta

Guglielmo Barnabò as Mobbi

Paolo Stoppa as Rappi

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.

Merrily We Live

1938

English

7.3

♡ 7

80%

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Patsy Kelly as Etta

Alan Mowbray as Grosvenor - Butler

Constance Bennett as Jerry Kilbourne

Sam Flint as Mr. Fleming

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991

French

7.6

♡ 21

86%

Leos Carax Director

Edith Scob as La femme en voiture

Juliette Binoche as Michèle Stalens

Alain Dahan as Un endormi

Marie Trintignant as Voix off

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

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Lead Me Home

Mala Noche

The Professional

Amores Perros

Drillbit Taylor

Streets of Plenty

Beat

Miracle in Milan

Merrily We Live

The Lovers on the Bridge