Slum Movies

Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man.

An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of...

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds...

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maro...

Toni, Aghi, Bubu, and Saras get the task of making essays. They create a free school for street children but they chose to earn money than learn.

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they p...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold...

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for fram...

Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words. Living in eight slums (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro, these members of the LGBTQ com...

A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.

Balaji and Karthik are brothers. Unable to bear the torture of her husband (Jyothi),their mother commits suicide. Balaji being the elder one, takes c...

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in t...

The film tells the story of Ramón Antonio Brizuela, who since childhood has to deal with rampant violence and the drugs, sex and petty thievery of a C...

Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to t...

In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit s...

Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.

Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no or...

A courageous teacher leads a group against a real estate developer who is determined to evict hundreds to make way for a construction project.