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7.8

♡ 2

100%

84%

san francisco, california

based on play or musical

George Stevens Director

Ellen Corby as Aunt Trina Halvorsen

Tommy Ivo as Cousin Arne

Barbara Bel Geddes as Katrin Hanson

Oskar Homolka as Uncle Chris

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

Street of Shame

1956

Japanese

7.8

♡ 13

80%

82%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Eiko Miyoshi as Kadowaki Saku, Yumeko's mother-in-law

Machiko Kyô as Mickey

Sadako Sawamura as Tatsuko Taya

Ayako Wakao as Yasumi

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

8.0

♡ 18

94%

91%

alcoholism

Elia Kazan Director

Robert J. Anderson as Augie

William Smith as Boy

Mickey Kuhn as Boy at Christmas Tree Throw

Gloria Talbott as Teen-Age Girl in Classroom

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

The March

1990

6.2

♡ 1

David Wheatley Director

Malick Bowens as Isa El-Mahdi

Jean-Claude Bouillon as J.M. Limonier

Sean Murray as Man in studio

Arturo Venegas as Spanish minister

A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."

America America

1963

7.7

♡ 3

Adventure

american dream

Elia Kazan Director

Robert H. Harris as Aratoon Kebabian

John Marley as Garabet

Joanna Frank as Vartuhi

Tom Holland as Voice Overs

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

Crack House

1989

5.5

♡ 5

45%

Michael Fischa Director

Jacob Vargas as Danny

Angel Tompkins as Mother

Jon Greene as Officer Baylor

Jim Brown as Steadman

Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his cousin by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets taken by a drug kingpin to settle a debt, only Rick can save her.

CJ7

2008

Cn

6.4

♡ 42

49%

Stephen Chow Director

Chi Chung Lam as Boss Jiao Xu

Jiao Xu as Dicky

Min Hun Fung as P. E. Teacher

Stephen Chow as Ti

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

Now & Later

2011

5.1

♡ 13

25%

Philippe Diaz Director

Shari Solanis as Angela

Maria Cabrera as Clinic Patron

Adrian Quinonez as Diego

Luis Fernandez-Gil as Luis

Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.

Gully Boy

2019

Hindi

7.9

♡ 52

96%

mumbai (bombay), india

Zoya Akhtar Director

Siddhant Chaturvedi as MC Sher

Vijay Varma as Moeen Arif

Ranveer Singh as Murad Ahmed / Gully Boy

Alia Bhatt as Safeena Firdausi

A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.

The Children's Train

2024

Italian

7.4

♡ 9

92%

1940s

Cristina Comencini Director

Dora Romano as

Monica Nappo as

Alistair McKenzie as Alicide

Barbara Ronchi as Derna

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

Abang Adik

2023

Chinese

7.2

♡ 6

Lay Jin Ong Director

Kang Ren Wu as Abang / Chen Ah-bang

Jack Tan as Adi / Zhang Wen-di

Bront Palarae as Crime Boss

Serene Lim as Li Jia En

Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets the fragile balance of their relationship.

Wendy and Lucy

2008

7.1

♡ 23

85%

Kelly Reichardt Director

Deirdre O'Connell as Deb

Larry Fessenden as Man in Park

Will Patton as Mechanic

Michelle Williams as Wendy

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

Nights of Cabiria

1957

Italian

8.1

♡ 33

100%

Federico Fellini Director

Giulietta Masina as Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli

Luciano Bonanni as Pascello

Leo Catozzo as The Man with the Sack

Franca Marzi as Wanda

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Rosetta

1999

French

7.4

♡ 18

90%

socially deprived family

trailer park

Jean-Pierre Dardenne Director

Christiane Dorval as First Saleswoman

Colette Regibeau as Madame Riga

Émilie Dequenne as Rosetta

Victor Marit as Second Policeman

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

Accattone

1961

Italian

7.6

♡ 4

100%

Pier Paolo Pasolini Director

Franco Citti as Accattone

Adriana Asti as Amore

Sergio Citti as Il Cameriere

Gabriele Baldini as Intellettuale

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Captain Phillips

2013