Homelessness Movies

In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inn...

Weenie follows the story of a young woman experiencing homelessness by depicting the moments before she her homes in a series of snapshot scenes.

Legendary homeless activist Ted Hayes embarks on a journey to heal hearts and minds of Americans.

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells matchstick...

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 c...

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 al...

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

The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family.

An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.

Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. B...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

A hitchhiker makes his way towards the coast.

A babysitter takes the son of a wealthy family for a walk in the park. After a carelessness of the babysitter, the child follows two children from the...

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

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Two life, same human hearth.

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cran...

A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.