Movies: Life in the slums

  • 1997
    Ossos

    Ossos (1997)

    Ossos

    6.81997HD

    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....

    Ossos
  • 1974
    La guarida

    La guarida (1974)

    La guarida

    51974HD

    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 l...

    La guarida
  • 2020
    School Town King

    School Town King (2020)

    School Town King

    7.32020HD

    It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances....

    School Town King
  • 2011
    Complexo: Parallel Universe

    Complexo: Parallel Universe (2011)

    Complexo: Parallel Universe

    7.32011HD

    No Rio de Janeiro, a 13 km do Cristo Redentor, dois portugueses aventuraram-se na mais temida favela do Brasil, onde moram mais de 300.000 pessoas - o Complexo do Alemão. Em 2007, no período de maior tensão e violência no Rio de Janeiro, viveram a ma...

    Complexo: Parallel Universe
  • 1920
    Build Thy House

    Build Thy House (1920)

    Build Thy House

    01920HD

    A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP....

    Build Thy House
  • 2010
    En tus manos

    En tus manos (2010)

    En tus manos

    72010HD

    In the vicious slums of Colombia, where prosperity is dictated by brutality, a conflicted kid seeks membership in a brutal gang, with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny....

    En tus manos
  • 1953
    Notes on a True Story

    Notes on a True Story (1953)

    Notes on a True Story

    5.71953HD

    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 c...

    Notes on a True Story
  • 1959
    Young Cain

    Young Cain (1959)

    Young Cain

    6.51959HD

    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 horribl...

    Young Cain
  • 1970
    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection (1970)

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection

    01970HD

    Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which were then in the process of being demolished. Under the title 'The Changing face of Salfo...

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection
  • 1969
    Under the water

    Under the water (1969)

    Under the water

    01969HD

    A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums....

    Under the water
  • 2025
    Wing Spike

    Wing Spike (2025)

    Wing Spike

    02025HD

    Once a rising star on his school’s volleyball team, "Keng" a young boy is forced to leave it all behind and move into the Khlong Toei slums. Dreaming of reclaiming his passion, he sets out to unite the local kids through volleyball he loves. But just...

    Wing Spike