Movies: Slum

  • 2001
    In Vanda's Room

    In Vanda's Room (2001)

    In Vanda's Room

    6.72001HD

    An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte....

    In Vanda's Room
  • 2008
    Once Upon a Time in Rio

    Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)

    Once Upon a Time in Rio

    7.42008HD

    Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...

    Once Upon a Time in Rio
  • 2002
    Bus 174

    Bus 174 (2002)

    Bus 174

    7.42002HD

    Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became ...

    Bus 174
  • 2010
    Soul Boy

    Soul Boy (2010)

    Soul Boy

    6.82010HD

    Abila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternize with her. And then one drunken night his father gambles away his own soul....

    Soul Boy
  • 1916
    The Pillory

    The Pillory (1916)

    The Pillory

    01916HD

    A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly woman, who is married to a judge. The woman, unbeknownst to the girl, is her mother, and adopts her. T...

    The Pillory
  • 2017
    Stip & Pensil

    Stip & Pensil (2017)

    Stip & Pensil

    6.22017HD

    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....

    Stip & Pensil
  • 1998
    Megacities

    Megacities (1998)

    Megacities

    6.81998HD

    Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities....

    Megacities
  • 1933
    Man's Castle

    Man's Castle (1933)

    Man's Castle

    6.81933HD

    Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant....

    Man's Castle
  • 1931
    Soul of the Slums

    Soul of the Slums (1931)

    Soul of the Slums

    5.51931HD

    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 framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he ...

    Soul of the Slums
  • 2019
    Kuppathu Raja

    Kuppathu Raja (2019)

    Kuppathu Raja

    52019HD

    A story about the relationship between the slum dwellers in Chennai and how certain anti-social elements create unrest in their lives....

    Kuppathu Raja
  • 2014
    Favela Gay

    Favela Gay (2014)

    Favela Gay

    6.62014HD

    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 community – two transgender women, a crossdressing man, a travesti prostitute, a famous carnival dancer...

    Favela Gay
  • 1962
    Assault on the Pay Train

    Assault on the Pay Train (1962)

    Assault on the Pay Train

    81962HD

    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-up on a train carrying a small fortune....

    Assault on the Pay Train
  • 2010
    Elas da Favela

    Elas da Favela (2010)

    Elas da Favela

    7.52010HD

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    Elas da Favela
  • 2008
    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio (2008)

    Streets of Rio

    4.32008HD

    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 this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood a...

    Streets of Rio
  • 2008
    Dr. Alemán

    Dr. Alemán (2008)

    Dr. Alemán

    5.72008HD

    Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly...

    Dr. Alemán
  • 1976
    I'm a Delinquent

    I'm a Delinquent (1976)

    I'm a Delinquent

    6.21976HD

    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 Caracas slum. Starting with delinquency, Ramón moves on to serious gang activity and robberies. He gr...

    I'm a Delinquent
  • 1956
    Heimliche Ehen

    Heimliche Ehen (1956)

    Heimliche Ehen

    01956HD

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    Heimliche Ehen
  • 2002
    Uma Onda no Ar

    Uma Onda no Ar (2002)

    Uma Onda no Ar

    6.32002HD

    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 the outcasts' complaints....

    Uma Onda no Ar
  • 2005
    Favela Rising

    Favela Rising (2005)

    Favela Rising

    5.82005HD

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

    Favela Rising
  • 1985
    Teacher Somsri

    Teacher Somsri (1985)

    Teacher Somsri

    3.61985HD

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

    Teacher Somsri