Homelessness movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant homelessness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, psychological, feel good and sad films and TV shows about / with homelessness, homeless, society, life is a bitch, poverty, friendship, female nudity, family relations, coming of age and hopes plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as homelessness: Mammal (2016), Shelter (2014), Curly Sue (1991), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), Rosie (2018), Life Stinks (1991), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007), Nomadland (2020), Between Us (2009).

List of homelessness movies

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 6.0
 938
Mammal (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ...
Style: psychological, erotic, bleak, tragic
Plot: sex with teenager, older woman younger man relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, older woman younger man sex, homelessness, older woman teenage boy sex, family problems, tragic past, relationships, confronting the past, tragic romance, relationship problems ...
Place: dublin ireland, ireland
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 6.5
 5K
Shelter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, depressing, rough ...
Plot: homelessness, emaciation, homeless, black man white woman sex, black man white woman relationship, female nudity, junkie, drug, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, sexual favor, couples ...
Place: manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.9
 23K
Curly Sue (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: homeless, orphan, cons and scams, little girl, homelessness, single father, urban, girl, kindness, homeless shelter, childhood, destiny ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of ...
Style: bleak, independent film, political, inspirational, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, mental illness, homelessness, schizophrenia, homeless shelter, homeless, death, murder, photography, loss of friend, photograph, death of friend ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 2K
Rosie (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.
Style: touching, psychological, thought provoking, rough, suspenseful
Plot: homeless shelter, homelessness, mother daughter relationship, family relations, love and romance, society, friendship, rescue, betrayal, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, united kingdom
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 5.9
 11K
Life Stinks (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot: homeless, wealth, greed, rags to riches, social differences, survival, switching roles, self discovery, wager, homelessness, poverty, fish out of water ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: homeless, life, human spirit, life philosophy, family drama, rags to riches, success, rise to the top, single father, against the odds, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area, california, america
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Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, sincere, christian film ...
Plot: homeless, bullying, homelessness, addiction, biopic, suicide, abuse, tragic hero, human nature, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.3
 181K
Nomadland (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style: road movie, serious, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
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 7.3
 1K
Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
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 7.3
 612
Mondo (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mondo is a homeless young boy, with a big smile, who wanders around Nice looking for food and a place to sleep.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, feel good
Plot: boy, homelessness, orphan, homeless, coming of age, child, tramp, hobo, gypsy, beggar, social misfits, society ...
Time: year 1995, 20th century, 90s
Place: nice france, french riviera, italy, france
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The Fisher King (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style: psychological, touching, compassionate, inspirational, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, redemption, transformation, homelessness, holy grail, tragic event, radio, guilty conscience, medical ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That ...
Style: anime, touching, breathtaking, poignant, intense ...
Plot: training, mentor, beast, friendship, martial arts, destiny, orphan, good versus evil, fantasy world, japanese schoolgirl, loneliness, boy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo
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 5.7
 2K
Squatters (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot: homelessness, young lovers, couples, couple relations, domestic disturbance, danger, rich and poor, violent content, profanity, homeless, criminal, graphic violence ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.3
 99K
Maid (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 545 min.
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Story: Inspired by the powerful New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Maid will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to - barely - make ends meet as she battles ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, spectacular, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: single mother, homelessness, memories, life, children, custody, poor family, job, life is a bitch, single parent, money problems, family problems ...
Time: 2020s
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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 7.3
 14K
Desert Flower (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: supermodel, immigrant, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, feminism, model, fashion, un, homelessness, female protagonist, circumcision ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, 60s, 21st century
Place: somalia, africa, indiana, europe, london ...
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 7.8
 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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Oliver & Company (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street ...
Style: sentimental, funny, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: orphan, friendship, dog, cat, adoption, pets, kitten, urban setting, alone, canine, tragedy, butler ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: new york, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, america
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The Driller Killer (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Style: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, punk rock, murder, painting, homelessness, homeless man, artist, hallucination, psychopath, stalking, social misfits, obsession ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.7
 13K
Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style: road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, touching
Plot: christmas, human animal relationship, cat, street musician, father son estrangement, homelessness, lone hero, friendship, pets, moral transformation, creativity, self discovery ...
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 6.6
 527
No and Me (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: At thirteen-years-old, with an unusually high IQ and a knack for observing things about other people, Lou Bertignac is not only the youngest in her class at school; she is also the most unusual. Painfully shy, she has few friends, save for Lucas, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, teen, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: homelessness, depression, high school, human spirit, teenage life, social differences, teen drinking, youth, best friend, society, life is a bitch, gain trust ...
Time: year 2010
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 5.3
 685
8 Minutes Idle (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to put your life 'on hold'! Dan Thomas has always taken the path of least ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, sentimental, offbeat
Plot: eviction, homelessness, employer employee relationship, office, life turned upside down, parent child relationship, nothing goes right, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations, coworker relationship, hit and run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Accidental Friendship (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes, Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a ...
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: homeless, homelessness, friendship, police officer, dog, homeless woman, human animal relationship, life is a bitch, kindness, poverty, animal, black woman ...
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 6.2
 6K
96 Souls (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
Style: spiritual, captivating, serious, suspenseful, light ...
Plot: research, homelessness, spirituality, supernatural power, supernatural, faith, psychoanalysis, hallucination, science, laboratory, evidence, religion ...
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Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: homelessness, street life, urban setting, urban ghetto life, orphan, life is a bitch, city life, drug, group, inner city, street
Place: new york
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 7.2
 2K
Adam (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal ...
Plot: breast feeding, homelessness, single mother, baby, homeless woman, female protagonist, pregnancy, little girl, newborn, woman, lgbt, 8 year old girl ...
Time: 2010s
Place: middle east, morocco, north africa, africa, maghreb
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 6.5
 9K
Undertow (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, murder, brutality, tragedy, homelessness, danger, lifestyle, parents and children, violence, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
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Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An aimless adolescent (Ellen Page) joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, hitchhiker, homelessness, social misfits, life is a bitch, teenage life, city life, individualism, lifestyle, innocence lost, rebelliousness, runaway ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, berlin germany, france, spain, portugal
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