„Herojaus akimis matomas pasaulis dar ryškesnis ir baisesnis, nei gali pasirodyti realybėje, todėl jame labiau suspindi ir vidinė šiluma bei įkvepiantis žmogiškumas. Šalia vaizduojamo žiaurumo, ryškių spalvų ir lengvo humoro, filme kuriamas įtaigus pasaulio paveikslas, kuris primins „Lūšnynų milionierių” ir „Floridos projektą“ (A. Račaitytė). Teisėjas klausia 12-mečio Zaino: „Kuo kaltini savo tėvus?“- „Tuo, kad suteikė man gyvybę“, – atsako šis. Vėliau siužetas atkurs visus įvykius, atvedusius prie šios situacijos. Mažasis Zainas, nelyginant Kristus, Kafernaume prieš 2000 metų daręs stebuklus, pasižymi gražiausių pasakų herojams būdinga drąsa ir stiprybe. Filme susipina mitas ir realybė, o režisierės atrastų neprofesionalių aktorių magnetizmas priverčia nelikti abejingiems istorijai, kuri, kaip teigia režisierė, tėra tūkstančių tikrų liudijimų kompiliacija.
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
Mergaitė, iš Ugandos, išmokusi žaisti šachmatais būdama keturiolikos, pirmą kartą Afrikos istorijoje, tapo šachmatų meistre moterų kategorijoje, jos gyvenimas pasikeitė kardinaliai. Filmas paremtas tikra istorija.
Nuskurdęs ryžių augintojas iš vargano Filipinų šiaurės kalnų rajono suvokia, kad jam neužteks pinigų kito derliaus sėkloms. Ir nutaria su žmona ir dviem vaikais vykti į sostinę ieškoti darbo. Sostinė sutinka jį nedraugiškai: jau pirmą dieną jo pinigai atsiduria apgavikų rankose, jam tenka dirbti už valgį, o šeima priversta apsigyventi lūšnynuose. Iš neviltis žmona įsidarbina bare ir tenkina klientų įgeidžius. Netrukus Oskarui nusišypso sėkmė: iš tatuiruotės atpažinę elitinio pėstininkų būrio karį vyriškį įdarbina privačioje transporto kompanijoje, kurios darbuotojai šarvuotais sunkvežimiais gabena krovinius ir savo klientų turtą. Darbas pavojingas, automobilius ir juos lydinčius asmenis dažnai užpuola plėšikai. Oskarą imasi globoti patyręs ir aukštesnių pareigų pasiekęs Ongas. Tapęs patyrusio kolegos porininku Oskaras ima suvokti savo amato subtilybes...
A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumstance?
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident with his mother.
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.
On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.
A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insights of experts with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the Midwest where the steel industry once flourished, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate. It is here where Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters.
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
In 2010, a scientist discovers aliens in orbit that resemble a cross between H.R. Giger's famous creation and Predator who want to invade Earth. They choose to start their invasion in Ghana because it is the most peaceful nation on the planet. The murderous aliens claim that they will have the entire planet colonized by the year 2016.
A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back to an isolated hut where he lives with a lazy man who refuses to abandon the place, which is more a lair for savage animals than a shelter for human beings.
A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.