Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.

Almost Home

2018

English

5.4

♡ 7

los angeles, california

Erik Jensen Director

David Reivers as Cop

Jay Huguley as Ken

Kathleen Rose Perkins as Linda

Conor Husting as Teen Boy

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.

Mammal

2016

English

6.0

♡ 11

75%

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

woman director

Rebecca Daly Director

Joanne Crawford as Jean Cunningham

Barry Keoghan as Joe

Rachel Griffiths as Margaret

Michael McElhatton as Matt

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

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.

Young Adult Matters

2020

Korean

5.9

♡ 5

82%

Hwan Lee Director

Ryu Abel as

Noh Susanna as

Hee-Yeon Ahn as Jooyoung

Yoo-Mi Lee as Sejin

Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003

English

7.1

♡ 4

81%

Peter Levin Director

Robert Bockstael as David

Kelly Lynch as Jean Murray

Thora Birch as Liz Murray

Ellen Page as Young Lisa

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

Brave the Dark

2023

English

6.5

♡ 6

74%

teacher student relationship

Damian Harris Director

Martin Jarvis as Henry V

Tobias Segal as Nate's Father

Gina Jun as Nurse

Jared Harris as Stan Deen

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.