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1) Lollilove
Publisher
Troma
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"Mockumentary" about a wealthy L.A. couple who decide to start a charity to "help" the homeless.
2) Holes
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
3) Saint Street
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Percy, a workaholic loses everything in a car accident, his family, job and home and left paralyzed from the waist down, homeless and live in the gritty world of misfits on Saint Street. Percy finds a second chance and redemption from the most unlikely of souls.
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
6) Ironweed
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Film about a hard-drinking homeless couple in the 1930s.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Face value (1991): Rejecting linear narrative storytelling, the director offers an epic of humanity and cultural diversity through a cartography of faces, the reflection of an imaginary Europe, made up of London, Marseilles, Prague, and the Netherlands.
Mask (1989): During the celebrations of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Johan van der Keuken made a film about the revolutionary ideas of equality, liberty, and fraternity. Rather than...
8) The soloist
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Times reporter Lopez develops an unlikely friendship with a homeless musician.
9) Edi =: Eddie
Publisher
MGE
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Polish
Description
Tells the story of two scrap metal pickers, Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused of raping the sister of a local thug which leads to tragedy and joy as Edi is made to care for her little baby
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the corpse around for a whole night of madness, drinking and hallucinating situations. Based on Jorge Amado novel.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While still homeless, Liz earned her diploma in two years....
13) Dark days
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. Depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above: in the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as 25 years.
14) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
日本語
Description
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
On the Bowery (1957): chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer which jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination.
Good times, Wonderful times (1964): Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism, includes collected archive footage of war atrocities interspersed with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chat.
Out (1957): is a documentary Rogosin made for the United Nations...
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art ..."--Container.
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