Homelessness Movies

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists....

In Stockholm, Sweden, it is a lack of housing. A young homeless couple find their own solution to the problem. They sleep in the bed department of a...

The homeless bed salesman Uwe tries to spend the night in the furniture store, but nothing comes of it. The aging security guard Bernd catches him...

Waiting for Barcelona revolves around the struggles of undocumented immigrants collecting scrap metal and selling illegal replicas in Barcelona. The...

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

“Set against the rattle of shopping carts and the white noise of L.A. traffic... “Disco’d” is an unvarnished, moving look at...

When a homeless man interrupts the comfortable routine of First Church of Raymond, life will never be the same for the apathetic congregation....

A babysitter takes the son of a wealthy family for a walk in the park. After a carelessness of the babysitter, the child follows two children from...

Assaf wasn’t brought up by his father, and when he dies, he meets his family for the first time, and as the only son, he’s revealed as...

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old...

Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered...

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as...

Thomas Adam has been through a lot. Alcohol was a constant presence in his life, costing him his marriage and his job. He lived on the streets of...

Filmed over a number of years, David Vondráček’s powerful documentary records the lives of Jan and Jana, a homeless couple who find...

In 2023, there were an estimated 30.6 thousand homeless people. This number continues to rise at an alarming rate. One of them is the headstrong...

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.