A teenage girl flees abuse at home to join a strong but troubled young woman that’s been living on the streets. She joins a de facto family of other homeless youth struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles.

Beyond the Blackboard

2011

English

7.6

♡ 11

82%

Action

based on a true story

Jeff Bleckner Director

Kiersten Warren as Danny's Mom

Julio Oscar Mechoso as Johnny Hernandez

Deidrie Henry as Patricia

Emily VanCamp as Stacey Bess

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.

Personal Velocity

2002

English

6.4

♡ 4

69%

Rebecca Miller Director

David Warshofsky as Kurt Wurtzle

Wallace Shawn as Mr. Gelb

David Patrick Kelly as Peter

Brian Tarantina as Pete Shunt

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

Rocks

2019

English

7.4

♡ 5

97%

81%

Action

brother sister relationship

Sarah Gavron Director

Ruby Stokes as Agnes

Sharon D. Clarke as Anita

Layo-Christina Akinlude as Funke Omotoso

Bukky Bakray as Shola 'Rocks' Omotoso

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.

Streetwise

1984

English

8.2

♡ 10

93%

Martin Bell Director Eddie

Eddie as Self

Tom Waits as Self Kim

Kim as Self Annie

Annie as Self

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.

Ellen Foster

1997

English

6.9

♡ 5

52%

abusive father

Action

Drama

hallmark hall of fame

homeless

homeless girl

John Erman Director

Ted Levine as Bill Hammond

Jena Malone as Ellen Foster

Amanda Peet as Julia Hobbs

Timothy Olyphant as Roy Hobbs

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.

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.

Queen Mimi

2015

English

7.2

♡ 1

90%

santa monica, california

Yaniv Rokah Director

Renée Zellweger as Self

Zach Galifianakis as Self

Richard Martini as Self

Graham McTavish as Self

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.

Microhabitat

2017

Korean

7.4

♡ 13

78%

Jeon Go-Woon Director

Sung-Wook Lee as Dae-Yong

Jae-hong Ahn as Han-sol

Kim Guk-Hee as Hyeon-jeong Esom

Esom as Mi-so

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.

Dream

2023

Korean

6.5

♡ 11

44%

football (soccer) team

homeless

Sport

sports

Byeong-heon Lee Director

Baek Ji-won as Hong

Hyun-Woo Lee as Kim in sun

IU as Lee So Min

Seo-joon Park as Yoon Hong Dae

With hard work and dedication on lock, a group of homeless men trains to compete in a global tournament — despite a cranky coach.

Code Unknown

2000

French

7.1

♡ 15

75%

Michael Haneke Director

Juliette Binoche as Anne Laurent

Aïssa Maïga as Black Girl with Blonde Hair

Luminita Gheorghiu as Maria

Nathalie Richard as Mathilde

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.

We Are Little Zombies

2019

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

93%

Makoto Nagahisa Director

Shirô Sano as

Maho Yamada as

Naomi Nishida as

Rinko Kikuchi as Ikuko Ibu

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.

Street Trash

2024

English

4.6

♡ 10

60%

Ryan Kruger Director Joe Vaz

Joe Vaz as Chef

Colin Moss as Group Leader

Rachel Pizzolato as Promo Melt Girl

Jonathan Pienaar as Society

A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.

Being Flynn

2012

English

6.4

♡ 15

49%

Paul Weitz Director

Samira Wiley as Asha

Julianne Moore as Jody Flynn

Robert De Niro as Jonathan Flynn

Paul Dano as Nick Flynn

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.

Poor Cow

1967

English

6.8

♡ 5

50%

79%

Action

based on novel or book

Ken Loach Director

Malcolm McDowell as Billy

Terence Stamp as David 'Dave' Fuller

Anna Karen as Neighbour

Billy Murray as Tom's Mate

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.

Night Always Comes

2025

English

5.9

♡ 35

52%

Benjamin Caron Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Doreen

Erin Way as Lecturer

Vanessa Kirby as Lynette

Michael Kelly as Tommy

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.

The Beast of Walton St.

2023

English

3.3

♡ 2

Dustin Austen Director

Mark Lammert as Ben Crosscoe

Athena Murzda as Constance Wilmenson

Charles Murzda as The Beast

LaVail Duncan as Trusty

As the homeless population of an Ohio town is ravaged by brutal deaths in the dead of winter, city officials turn a blind eye to the violence in the name of squashing panic. With no help from the city in sight, Constance Wilmenson and Sketch Williams make a pact to defend their turf in the name of their forgotten homeless brethren and fight back against the deadly creature… a werewolf.

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