Movies: Homelessness

Two roommates (Homar and Travis) face eviction if they can't pay their already past-due rent. On their search for a job, they discover an opportunity to pitch a movie and win big. Homar comes up with a brilliant idea, birthing the iconic character of...

Tomasz Biernacki’s thought-provoking documentary about the homeless crisis in Seattle. Deftly interweaving in-depth stories of community members who are living the crisis on the streets with interviews of political leaders and community advocates, vi...

SFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public bathrooms and sleep in homeless centers....

Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and newspaper headlines about the fight to force the government to live up to their promise to provide ...

Intimate true stories from St Kilda's Gatwick Private Hotel. Meet the incredible characters including sisters Rose and Yvette who dedicated their lives to caring for the forgotten....

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London. For this frank, forceful and inspiring documentary, she returns to her former haunts and speaks to current and former homeless people about w...

An indomitable spray dog takes as its territory the "home" of Matthew, a beggar immersed in solitude....

Legendary homeless activist Ted Hayes embarks on a journey to heal hearts and minds of Americans....

Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and reminds us that we are stronger together....

Homeless man Robert (Bobby) Webb discovers the art of filmmaking, turning pages of his life into a heartfelt reel. Through his journey he finds hope and new meanings in unexpected aspects of his life as he relives them....

A young man goes home after a day of work....

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nosta...

A young girl named Wendy becomes homeless. She faces trials and tribulations through this new lifestyle but manages to keep her humility....

In 1995, teen runaways Eddie and Miles are sent to New York City to deliver on a drug deal with the promise of easy money and a place to live. But when the deal falls through, they find themselves penniless in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village...

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La Negra and Vicenta are two homeless women. After losing their place and belongings, they meet Pola, a younger woman who is starting out in a previously unknown reality. The three women accompany each other revealing the complexities of being a woma...

Bullied in school, a young pupils life becomes a living hell....

Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future....

Two life, same human hearth....

After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter....