Films set in slums

2008 film directed by Danny Boyle

2002 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2002 film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund

2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

2005 film by Fernando Meirelles

1959 film by Marcel Camus

2018 film directed by Nadine Labaki

Tsotsi is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski. It is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi by Athol Fugard, and is a South African/UK co-production. Set in the Alexandra slum in Johannesburg, South Africa, it stars Presley Chweneyagae as David/Tsotsi (meaning "criminal" - see also Tsotsitaal), a young street thug who steals a car only to discover a baby in the back seat. It also features Kenneth Nkosi, Jerry Mofokeng, and Rapulana Seiphemo in supporting roles.

2001 film by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

2000 film by Alejandro González Iñárritu

2004 film by Pierre Morel

Accattone (, lit. "vagabond", "scrounger") is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and starring Franco Citti. It was Pasolini's first film as a director, as well as the acting debut for Citti, who would become a regular collaborator. It follows the life of Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi, a pimp living on the outskirts of Rome.

2008 film by Mathieu Kassovitz

1988 film by Mira Nair

thumb|x150px|thumbtime=2:10:03|Awaara (1951) Awaara, also written Awāra and known overseas as The Vagabond, is a 1951 Indian crime drama film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and V.P. Sathe. It stars Raj Kapoor along with his real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor, as well as Nargis, Leela Chitnis and K. N. Singh. Other members of the Kapoor family make an appearance, including Raj's youngest brother Shashi Kapoor, who plays the younger version of his character, and Prithiviraj's father Dewan Basheshwarnath Singh Kapoor, playing a cameo in his only film appea

2017 film directed by Alexander Payne

1919 film by D. W. Griffith

2007 film by José Padilha

2011 film directed by Gareth Evans

1950 film by Luis Buñuel

1999 film directed by Alan Parker

1964 Soviet-Cuban movie directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, and Shinsuke Minami. It is based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1962 novel A City Without Seasons and is about a group of homeless and poverty-stricken people living on the outskirts of Tokyo.

1917 film directed by Charlie Chaplin

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

1937 film by William Wyler

2009 film directed by Dwight H. Little

2016 film directed by Mira Nair

Deewaar ( The Wall) is a 1975 Indian action crime film directed by Yash Chopra, from a story by Salim–Javed. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, and Amitabh Bachchan alongside an ensemble cast of Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi, Iftekhar, Madan Puri, Satyen Kappu and Manmohan Krishna. The music was composed by R. D. Burman, while cinematography and editing were handled by Kay Gee Koregaonkar and T. R. Mangeshkar-Pran Mehra. In the film, two impoverished brothers struggle to survive in the slums of Mumbai and eventually find themselves on opposing sides of the law. The film's title signifies th

1976 film by Ettore Scola

2005 film directed by Barbara Kopple

2019 film directed by Zoya Akhtar

1953 Indian Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy

2010 Brazilian crime film directed by José Padilha

2017 film directed by Saket Chaudhary

2005 South African film directed by Mark Dornford-May

1954 Indian film

Hichki (; ) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film co-written and directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra. It is produced by Aditya Chopra and Maneesh Sharma under the banner of Yash Raj Films. Based on American motivational speaker Brad Cohen's autobiography Front of the Class, it stars Rani Mukerji as Naina Mathur, an aspiring teacher who gets rejected by many schools due to her Tourette syndrome, until she is accepted at the St. Notker's School, her alma mater. She is assigned to teach students from a nearby slum in the class 9F, which was created by the Government of India to fill a q

2002 film directed by Ram Gopal Varma

1992 film directed by Roland Joffé

2009 film by Kazuaki Kiriya

Sairat () is a 2016 Indian Marathi-language social romantic tragedy film directed and co-produced by Nagraj Manjule under his banner Aatpat Production, along with Nittin Keni and Nikhil Sane under Essel Vision Productions and Zee Studios. Starring Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar in their debuts, it tells the story of two young college students from different castes who fall in love, sparking conflict between their families.

2014 film by Stephen Daldry

2005 film by Auraeus Solito

1963 film by Francisco Rovira Beleta

1936 film by Jean Renoir

1981 Indian film by Rabindra Dharmaraj

2006 film directed by Marwan Hamed

1964 film by Satyen Bose

1982 film by David S. Ward

1990 film by Richard Stanley

2006 film, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

2019 film by Fernando Frías de la Parra

1992 film by Mike Newell

2018 Tamil film directed by Pa. Ranjith

2007 film by Paulo Morelli

2010 film by Marcel Rasquin

1991 film by John Sayles

2013 film by Sean Ellis