Homeless Movies

The homeless, underground residents at a post-communist train station and their intimate confessions. A film not about misery, but the lust for life...

In January 2011 Paul Crane discovered a tent city in downtown St. Louis, along the Mississippi River. He was curious as to who these people were, how...

A smug executive enjoys the perfect life - until he loses his job, and finds himself working at a burger joint. Now he's falling behind on his bills,...

This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army. Shot in Toronto at...

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells...

We follow Roach, a 17-year-old ex-junkie and squeegee punk living on the streets of Toronto and Montreal. As part of the filmmaking process, he's...

Surrounded by solitude a homeless walks through streets and abandoned buildings searching for food to survive. But what he fears most is to be found.

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. ...

Karl and George are two homeless guys finding ways to survive on the street of Manhattan.

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...

Arrels Fundació's experience with housing first in the city of Barcelona, ​​a policy that offers permanent housing...

Lucie sees Eloi, a homeless man, freezing to death in the alley, and takes him in. Living together proves to be difficult until Lucie's charity...

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.

Documentary that follows Pablo, a man that used to live on the streets in Brazil

A homeless dying veteran, trying to find a Unicorn he believes lives in the mountains above Los Angeles, convinces a Latina immigrant to join his...

Don't always count a coin by its face value. Because until you hold it yourself, you will never know its 'true' worth.

Would you fall in love with a homeless person? Six years after Occupy Wall Street, Jehan is 42 years old and homeless on the streets of New York...

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers,...

Three young adults face the reality of homeless people in Milan and tell three different portraits of people that leave this condition in their...

Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO)...