Slum movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant slum movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing and rough films and TV shows about / with slum, society, poverty, life is a bitch, violence, murder, gang, urban ghetto, friendship and police plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Brazil, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as slum: Capernaum (2018), Trash (2014), Thanks Maa (2009), Tsotsi (2005), The Raid (2014), City of Men (2007), Elite Squad (2007), The Crow's Egg (2014), Gully Boy (2019), Brother (2010).

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 8.4
 104K
Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
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 7.1
 23K
Trash (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Style: captivating, road movie, touching, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: poverty, children, slum, mischievous children, friends, coming of age, young heroes, corruption, favela, teenager, youth, police corruption ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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 8.1
 740
Thanks Maa (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: While on the run from the reformatory, a 12 year old boy named Municipality finds and saves a two day old abandoned baby from becoming the prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people whom he deemed responsible and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: father daughter incest, friendship, against the odds, orphan, search for mother, following a dream, second chance, tragic event, poverty, orphanage, slum, satire ...
Place: mumbai india
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 7.2
 32K
Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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 6.1
 1K
The Raid (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.
Style: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: slum, fighting crime, working undercover, drug dealing, danger, undercover, law enforcement, society, urban ghetto, race against time, trapped, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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 7.2
 16K
City of Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style: tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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The Crow's Egg (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two slum kids yearn to taste a pizza after being enticed by the pizza shop that has opened near their locality. What happens when they mange to find the money to buy one?
Style: captivating, humorous, disturbing, social, children's story ...
Plot: child, children, poverty, boy, brothers, desire, escapades, slum, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, siblings, boyhood ...
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 7.9
 44K
Gully Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere, fast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, poverty, slum, ghetto, fight, friend, rivalry, ambition, escapades, youth, society, motivation ...
Place: mumbai india
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 7.2
 3K
Brother (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two brothers fight to escape a violent and poor neighborhood in Caracas by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to play professionally while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to ...
Style: realistic, rough, touching, serious, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, slum, football, ambition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, follow your dream, teenage life, family relations, society, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela, latin america
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 7.4
 15K
Shantaram (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city’s poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.
Style: satirical, thrilling, captivating, tense, novela
Plot: criminal, drug addict, slum, organized crime, new life, changing lives, runaway, fugitives, satire, escaped prisoner, lifestyle change, confronting the past ...
Time: 2020s
Place: bombay india, afghanistan
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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To Sir, with Love (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style: touching, inspirational, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, mentor, education, teenager, coming of age, teacher student relationship, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: england, east end london, europe, london, united kingdom
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 8.5
 942K
Parasite (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style: suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological thriller, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, wealth, basement, scam, tutor, poor family, plot twist, unemployment ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, asia
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 8.0
 250K
Lion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style: emotional, touching, motivational, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, family friendly, chick flick, kids
Plot: adoption, poverty, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loneliness, childhood, mother son reunion, foster home, train, brother brother relationship, courage, missing child ...
Time: 2010s, year 1986, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place: india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style: scary, slasher, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
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Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: heist, train, slum, railway, social injustice, mobster, danger, criminal heroes, gang, chases and races, crime gone awry, disorder ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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 7.4
 10K
Divines (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: ghetto, poverty, friendship, urban decay, slum, seduction, police, street gang, greed, dancer, girl power, danger ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, indiana
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 7.0
 6K
The Zone (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, twisted, hispanic ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, heist, vigilantism, slum, escape, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, latin america
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 7.1
 93
Adela (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Adela, (Philippines' screen legend Anita Linda) a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: realism, human spirit, elderly, aging, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, family life, loneliness, slum, girl, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
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 6.4
 524
Saf (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul ...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, missing person, hiding place, death, immigration, refugee, family relations, couples, police station, prison, female protagonist, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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Togetherness Supreme (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, Venezuela
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on true events and the ethnic conflict that tore apart a country. TOGETHERNESS SUPREME is the story of Kamau, an artist, searching for change in the midst of ethnic tension in the slums. Kamau goes against his father and his tribe to join the ...
Style: captivating
Plot: slum, ethnic, election, ethnic conflict, personality change, lifestyle change, class conflict, changing lives, political conflict, culture clash, cultural conflict, conflict ...
Place: africa, kenya
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 6.2
 367
MacArthur Park (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a ...
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: drug abuse, downfall, life is a bitch, social decay, rehabilitation, lifestyle, youth, addiction, social misfits, urban ghetto life, down on your luck, homelessness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 5.2
 239
Kill the Poor (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting, offbeat ...
Plot: pregnancy, social differences, lifestyle, couples, social decay, drug abuse, nothing goes right, social misfits, society, life is a bitch, rise to the top, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, france, europe
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 7.9
 714K
District 9 (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style: mockumentary, serious, suspense, biting, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, apocalypse, transformation, mutation, metamorphosis, refugee, society ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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 7.5
 301
Half Ticket (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story of the 'Have Nots' struggling to survive in a world of 'Haves'.
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: poverty, desire, extortion, slum, multiple storylines, lifestyle, aspiration, direction and purpose, social misfits, social problems, society, ambition ...
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 6.5
 97
Drohi (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Samy and Karuna grow up together in the slums of Royapuram. One day, they witness the brutal murder of their teacher by a gangster. While Karuna manages to kill the gangster, Samy tells to the cops that Karuna was responsible for the murder.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, dramatic, exciting
Plot: relationships, friend, feud, friends, love, enemy, hate, friendship, murder, slum, guilty pleasure
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Yeditepe Istanbul (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
TV show
Story: When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, humorous
Plot: financial problem, money problems, family relations, mother daughter relationship, single mother, mother and daughter, social problems, life is a bitch, slum, family problems
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