Category
page 1Films about poverty in the United States
Joker
2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 film by Gabriele Muccino
Elysium
2013 film directed by Neill Blomkamp
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 film directed by Jason Reitman
They Live
1988 film by John Carpenter
The Florida Project
2017 film by Sean Baker
Winter's Bone
2010 film by Debra Granik
Hillbilly Elegy
2020 film directed by Ron Howard
Out of the Furnace
2013 film by Scott Cooper
99 Homes
2014 film by Ramin Bahrani
American Honey
2016 film by Andrea Arnold
Gummo
Gummo is a 1997 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine (in his directorial debut), and starring Linda Manz, Max Perlich, Jacob Sewell, Jacob Reynolds, Chloë Sevigny, and Nick Sutton. It is set in Xenia, Ohio, a Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town.
The Glass Castle
2017 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Wendy and Lucy
2008 film by Kelly Reichardt
Lean on Pete
2017 film by Andrew Haigh
Night Always Comes
2025 film directed by Benjamin Caron
Whore
1991 film by Ken Russell
Christmas in July
1940 film by Preston Sturges
One of Them Days
2025 film directed by Lawrence Lamont
Little Woods
2019 film directed by Nia DaCosta
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993 film by Tim Hunter
All Together Now
2020 film directed by Brett Haley
Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 film by Tamara Jenkins
Burden
2018 film by Andrew Heckler
A Single Shot
2013 film by David M. Rosenthal
Back Roads
2018 film directed by Alex Pettyfer
Hidden in America
1996 television film directed by Martin Bell
A Home of Our Own
1993 film by Tony Bill
Still Here
2020 film by Vlad Feier
The Land
2016 film directed by Steven Caple Jr.