| Candyman (1992) | 6.7 | |
| Tsotsi (2005) | 7.2 | |
| Capernaum (2018) | 8.4 | |
| Long Way Home (2018) | 7.0 | |
| Brother (2010) | 7.2 |
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 realistic, captivating, serious, tense, touching and disturbing films and TV shows about / with slum, poverty, society, violence, coming of age, friendship, police, gangster, life is a bitch and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Brazil, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as slum: Trash (2014), Capernaum (2018), Togetherness Supreme (2010), The Raid (2014), Shantaram (2022), City of Men (2007), Tsotsi (2005), Elite Squad (2007), Thanks Maa (2009), City of God (2002).
Best films
New films
| Goodbye (2019) | 6.1 | |
| Black Beach (2020) | 5.6 | |
| Slum Dog Husband (2023) | 6.7 | |
| Code 8 (2019) | 6.1 | |
| Maharshi (2019) | 7.1 |
List of slum movies
24K
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:
road movie, touching, sentimental, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, children, slum, favela, mischievous children, young heroes, coming of age, friends, corruption, child in peril, teenager, youth ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america
Is relevant?
122K
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:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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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, intense, tense, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
ethnic conflict, election, slum, ethnic, political unrest, character change, cultural conflict, drastic change of life, personality change, culture clash, class conflict, conflict ...
Place:
kenya, africa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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, race against time, urban ghetto, society, law enforcement, trapped, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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18K
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:
thrilling, captivating, tense, satirical, novela
Plot:
criminal, drug addict, slum, organized crime, new life, confronting the past, escaped prisoner, fugitives, satire, irony of fate, runaway, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
bombay india, india, afghanistan
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
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, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 94 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, harsh, captivating, rough, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
redemption, baby, urban ghetto life, poverty, criminal, slum, gang, childhood, friendship, street life, murder, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa, boston
Is relevant?
118K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, 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, intense, serious, realistic, social ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug traffic, favela, squad, drug lord, leader, slum, police, fighting crime, police brutality, law enforcement, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, berlin germany
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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:
disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, serious, dutch angle ...
Plot:
friendship, orphan, against the odds, second chance, poverty, following a dream, slum, orphanage, tragic event, search for mother, satire, drug ...
Place:
mumbai india
Is relevant?
864K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
Is relevant?
47K
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, sincere, disturbing, fast ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
success, slum, poverty, social outcast, ghetto, fight, friend, rivalry, ambition, youth, society, escapades ...
Place:
mumbai india, india
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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, touching, rough, serious, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, slum, football, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, life is a bitch, teenage life, contests and competitions, athlete's life, society, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, latin america
Is relevant?
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545
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:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
murder, refugee, immigration, death, missing person, hiding place, social justice, migration, babysitting, police station, slum, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Is relevant?
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, disturbing, humorous, social, children's story ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
child, children, desire, boy, food, poverty, escapades, brothers, slum, lifestyle, pizza, work ethic ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
working class, black, slum, friendship, control, hairdresser, loneliness, infidelity, female protagonist, slice of life, adaptation, resilience ...
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
265K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
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:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
Is relevant?
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:
inspirational, touching, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, coming of age, teenager, mentor, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher, slum, death of mother ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, east end london, europe, united kingdom, london
Is relevant?
1.1M
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, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
humorous, captivating, sincere, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, single mother, slum, mother and daughter, female protagonist, poverty, social realism, family drama, city life, money problems, financial problem, social problems ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in a fictional modern-day Sao Paulo, where marijuana has been legalized, this series follows 29-year-old Biriba, a drug dealer who decides to give up his criminal life and enter the legal drug sales industry. Unfortunately for Biriba, going ...
Style:
hood, crime drama, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
cannabis, criminal underworld, drug dealer, male nudity, sex, crime boss, favela, mobster, corrupt cop, mafia, weed, fatherhood ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil, latin america, uruguay, south america
Is relevant?
11K
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, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
poverty, friendship, slum, police, seduction, urban decay, ghetto, street gang, dancer, greed, danger, full moon ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
Is relevant?
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, train, slum, favela, railway, social injustice, mobster, criminal heroes, chases and races, crime gone awry, gang, danger ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, emotional, art house, existential ...
Plot:
slum, homelessness, street life, alcoholism, friendship, character study, urban, male protagonist, identity crisis, social realism, poverty, survival ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
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101
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
realism, human spirit, elderly, life is a bitch, aging, society, parents and children, family life, loneliness, slum, girl, cemetery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
Is relevant?
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, life is a bitch, downfall, social decay, lifestyle, rehabilitation, youth, addiction, social misfits, urban ghetto life, down on your luck, homelessness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
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, biting, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
pregnancy, social differences, lifestyle, couples, social decay, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, rise to the top, nothing goes right, social misfits, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france, usa
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood , when she bankrupt and broke she try to make a living by singing in a nightclubs , she starting to suffer from the people around her that are attracted by her beauty
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, foot fetish, singing, beauty, slum, poverty, love interest, money problems, love, female singer, male female relationship, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A story of the 'Have Nots' struggling to survive in a world of 'Haves'.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
poverty, desire, aspiration, extortion, inequality, social realism, social commentary, slum, pizza, ambition, direction and purpose, social problems ...
Is relevant?
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, vigilantism, slum, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy, violence, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
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