Homelessness Movies

In the spring of 2018, the filmmaker Maria Petschnig befriended Marc who at that time was living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while...

After a failed relationship, a deadbeat man tries to live off the land in a beach town on Long Island.

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...

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.

A lowly comic book shop owner discovers a mysterious young woman loitering in his shop, leading to an unlikely friendship.

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...

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

Tweek City is a week in the life of Bill, a potentially closeted, half-Latino, small-time speed dealer in San Francisco's Mission District. Bill is...

An indomitable spray dog takes as its territory the "home" of Matthew, a beggar immersed in solitude.

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the November 22,...

Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang...

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the...

On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California. We...

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.

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...

People experiencing homelessness, social work professionals, and film artists join forces to transform fragments of real life into fictional short...

A fantasy about a daughter’s yearning for her mother’s warmth and comfort, which turns into a nightmare about harsh reality of a group of...

A story about talented homeless and formerly homeless fine arts painters in the worst section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row. People will create...

The life of 16-year-old Mot is thrown into disarray when his father leaves the family. In protest, Mot brings home a homeless woman and declares that...