THEME EXPLORATION

poverty and struggle

44 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Black God White Devil
Black God White Devil
1964 · Glauber Rocha
The Marginal Ones
The Marginal Ones
1978 · Mrinal Sen
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
1909 · D.W. Griffith
Los olvidados
Los olvidados
1950 · Luis Buñuel
Les Bas-fonds
Les Bas-fonds
1936 · Jacques Becker & Jean Renoir
Man’s Castle
Man’s Castle
1933 · Frank Borzage
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
1936 · Mikio Naruse
One Wonderful Sunday
One Wonderful Sunday
1947 · Akira Kurosawa
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen
2002 · Ken Loach
The Wagoner
The Wagoner
1963 · Ousmane Sembène
Deep Rivers
Deep Rivers
2018 · Vladimir Bitokov
Conjugal Warfare
Conjugal Warfare
1975 · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Chengshi zhi ye
Chengshi zhi ye
1933 · Fei Mu
Pyaasa
Pyaasa
1957 · Guru Dutt
Sürü
Sürü
1978 · Yílmaz Güney
Evolution of a Filipino Family
Evolution of a Filipino Family
2004 · Lav Diaz
Raven's End
Raven's End
1963 · Bo Widerberg
Sink & Rise
Sink & Rise
2004 · Bong Joon-ho
Macario
Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan
1951 · Vittorio De Sica
Flowers of Shanghai
Flowers of Shanghai
1998 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin
1973 · Alexander Kluge
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
1975 · Chantal Akerman
Giovanna d’Arco
Giovanna d’Arco
1989 · Werner Herzog
Earth
Earth
1930 · Alexander Dovzhenko
Roma
Roma
2018 · Alfonso Cuarón
Burning
Burning
2018 · Lee Chang-dong
Capernaum
Capernaum
2018 · Nadine Labaki
Manila in the Claws of Light
Manila in the Claws of Light
1975 · Lino Brocka
Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors
1994 · Lee Tamahori
To Live
To Live
1994 · Zhang Yimou
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
Winter Sleep
Winter Sleep
2014 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Children of Heaven
Children of Heaven
1997 · Majid Majidi
Clash
Clash
2016 · Mohamed Diab
Rocco and His Brothers
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Luchino Visconti
The Man Without a Past
The Man Without a Past
2002 · Aki Kaurismäki
7 Boxes
7 Boxes
2012 · Juan Carlos Maneglia
Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace
2004 · Joshua Marston
Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory
2019 · Pedro Almodóvar
Utama
Utama
2022 · Alejandro Loayza Grisi
The Sin
The Sin
1965 · Henry Barakat
A Street to Die
A Street to Die
1986 · Bill Bennett
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films unflinchingly document the lives of working-class people facing systemic poverty and institutional neglect through intimate, humanistic storytelling.

 Hirokazu Koreeda Japan

He explores poverty with compassion and dignity, revealing the resourcefulness and love within families surviving on society's margins.

 Vittorio De Sica Italy

A pioneer of Italian Neorealism, he captured post-war poverty and human resilience with poetic realism in films like 'Bicycle Thieves.'