Slum Movies

  • 1916
    The Pillory

    The Pillory

    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 wo...

    The Pillory
  • 2006
    I Want to Be A Pilot

    I Want to Be A Pilot

    I Want to Be A Pilot

    62006HD

    Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.

    I Want to Be A Pilot
  • 1962
    Paradise Alley

    Paradise Alley

    Paradise Alley

    61962HD

    An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of...

    Paradise Alley
  • 1942
    Tough as They Come

    Tough as They Come

    Tough as They Come

    01942HD

    The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and t...

    Tough as They Come
  • 2010
    Soul Boy

    Soul Boy

    Soul Boy

    6.72010HD

    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 rea...

    Soul Boy
  • 1939
    Back Door to Heaven

    Back Door to Heaven

    Back Door to Heaven

    51939HD

    The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

    Back Door to Heaven
  • 1945
    A Medal for Benny

    A Medal for Benny

    A Medal for Benny

    4.51945HD

    Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they p...

    A Medal for Benny
  • 2014
    Favela Gay

    Favela Gay

    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 com...

    Favela Gay
  • 1998
    Megacities

    Megacities

    Megacities

    6.91998HD

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

    Megacities
  • 1931
    Soul of the Slums

    Soul of the Slums

    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 fram...

    Soul of the Slums
  • 1988
    Noisy Requiem

    Noisy Requiem

    Noisy Requiem

    6.31988HD

    In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit s...

    Noisy Requiem
  • 1976
    I'm a Delinquent

    I'm a Delinquent

    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 C...

    I'm a Delinquent
  • 1972
    P for Pelican

    P for Pelican

    P for Pelican

    6.41972HD

    An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “P...

    P for Pelican
  • 2008
    Dr. Alemán

    Dr. Alemán

    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...

    Dr. Alemán
  • 2005
    Favela Rising

    Favela Rising

    Favela Rising

    5.82005HD

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

    Favela Rising
  • 2011
    Veppam

    Veppam

    Veppam

    5.42011HD

    In the slums of Chennai, Karthik, a young engineering student, falls in love with Revathy, his childhood friend. However, their lives are entangled wi...

    Veppam
  • 1988
    Hong Kong’s Secret City

    Hong Kong’s Secret City

    Hong Kong’s Secret City

    91988HD

    Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no or...

    Hong Kong’s Secret City
  • 2002
    Uma Onda no Ar

    Uma Onda no Ar

    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 t...

    Uma Onda no Ar
  • 2014
    Every map has a discourse

    Every map has a discourse

    Every map has a discourse

    102014HD

    Every map has a discourse
  • 2008
    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio

    5.52008HD

    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 t...

    Streets of Rio