Homelessness Movies

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...

After a failed relationship, a deadbeat man tries to live off the land in a beach town on Long Island.

In 1995, teen runaways Eddie and Miles are sent to New York City to deliver on a drug deal with the promise of easy money and a place to live. But whe...

Kirsty must survive an afternoon in the city centre until her accomodation can be arranged at a homeless shelter.

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four children, housing instability has meant moving be...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months b...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the impoverished community of Milwaukee despite interna...

Jonathan must protect himself and his younger sister by escaping the home of their abusive father.

Award winning feature documentary about an art program for homeless people.

After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter.

Waifs, homeless, derelicts, almsmen, others, forgettens, outcasts, unwanteds. The Hotel of Waifs; a temporary resting place far from home, an amusemen...

In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inn...

Chester P (Real talk records) takes a film crew with him on a journey as he attempts to find the truth about the effects of the austerity measures and...

SHELTER IN THE CITY is a documentary about homelessness that focuses on a father’s heartbreaking struggle to get his mentally ill son off the streets...

Whilst saving up for a hotel, a homeless man is robbed and must find a place to sleep.

The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family.

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A pr...

As Rose City grapples with continued vandalism and homelessness, businesses are hurting and boarded up amid a global pandemic. What can be done to bri...