| To Sir, with Love (1967) | 7.6 | |
| Capernaum (2018) | 8.4 | |
| Lion (2016) | 8.0 | |
| City of Men (2007) | 7.2 | |
| Kaaka Muttai (2014) | 8.3 |
Slum movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of slum movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, dark comedy, game show ...
Plot:
dystopia, survival, social commentary, fictional game show, violence, money problems, most dangerous game, race against time, megacorporation, media manipulation, escape, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
maine, boston, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, intense, serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, enemies to lovers, boxing, ambition, love story, immigrant, boxer, obsessive quest, against the odds, american dream, rise and fall ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, turn of the century, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, ireland, oklahoma, oklahoma city, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Uncle and Nephew make a great team
Plot:
slum, woman in jeopardy, suspicion of adultery, blackmail, attempted murder, rescue, taxi driver, inheritance, two man army, scheme, cripple, muslim ...
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83K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hopeful writer, poor but educated Anoop attacks the ruthless exploitation of the lower classes by the rich with his fiery speeches. But his uncompromising principles could stand in the way of the connections he'll need if he hopes to reach a ...
Plot:
slum, hippie, poet, fire, arson, poverty, wealth, rain, job interview, love, class differences, father daughter relationship ...
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3K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him ...
Style:
crying, masala, entertaining, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot:
redemption, deportation, woman in jeopardy, courage, showdown, frame up, crime boss, criminal, tough cop, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, acid, injustice ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, cult classic, political ...
Plot:
distopia, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, dystopian future, brainwashing, technology, fascism, totalitarian state, satire, surveillance, political corruption ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1984, near future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor ...
Style:
horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, toxic, homelessness, misfit, drunkenness, rape, junkyard, death, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
62K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian future, robot human relationship, post apocalyptic, cyborgs, investigation ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2014, 2040s ...
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222
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, parallel cinema, art film
Plot:
realism, sexual awakening, poverty, miscarriage, syphilis, truck driver, brothel, teenager, slum, nihilism, quarrel, dream ...
Place:
mumbai india
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137K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, melancholic, existential, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shrinking, aeroplane, experiment, amputee, neighbor, divorce, environment, laboratory, new house, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place:
new mexico, istanbul turkey
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994
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sentimental, bleak ...
Plot:
working conditions, strike, poverty, anarchism, working class, immigrant, anarchist, exploitation, labor union, prison, train, execution ...
Time:
1910s, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
utah, usa, california, san diego california, new york
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The story centers around two fiercely fighting schoolgirls, Ryuuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuuin. On a campus ruled by force, a transfer student wielding a Basami sword brings about upheaval.
Style:
anime, exciting, atmospheric, manga, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
supernatural ability, friendship, sister sister relationship, high school, murder, social relations, danger, uncover truth, good versus evil, escapades, schoolgirl, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, africa
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4K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
Tiger works for the local Don Bhaktawar but never hesitates to revolt against him if he harms his friends or family. When his girlfriend Jumma's brother Gonsalves is killed by Bhakhtawar for revolting against him, Tiger promises revenge.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
gangster, treason, slum, traitor, tank, money falling through the air, police inspector, bribe, loyalty, mercenary, farmhouse, dark past ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, islamic ...
Plot:
terrorism, muslim, suicide bomber, terrorist, terrorist attack, islam, radical, danger, society, family relations, murder, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 90s, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
middle east, tunisia, maghreb, africa, morocco
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Thomas, a Danish gay man, is unable to adopt in his home country. He visits a friend in Brazil to explore the possibility of bringing home a child. Eventually he meets Maria, a poor woman who is willing to give away the child she is carrying in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, fall in love, love and romance, gender, parents and children, family relations, society, babies and infants, poverty, gay, favela ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sao paulo brazil, denmark, brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, pornochanchada, manga ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
public nudity, brothel, ghost, love triangle, gambling, magic realism, menage a trois, male nudity, male pubic hair, prostitution, sex scene, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
northeast brazil, latin america, brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suffering because of his father departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, touching, adult animation, claymation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
globalization, youth, little boy, very little dialogue, obsessive quest, self discovery, imaginary, escapades, surrealism, coming of age, travel, working class ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min.
Story:
After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As ...
Style:
psychological thriller, black and white, slow cinema
Plot:
false accusation, revenge, sex worker, released from prison, female protagonist, transvestite, lawyer, night, gays and lesbians, underground, love letter, prison ...
Time:
year 1997
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, motorcycle, assassination, murder of father, student, violence, loss of father, police, revenge, revenge plot, death of father, police officer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, spoof, parody
Plot:
marriage proposal, slum, scam, nun, reporter, priest, relic, journalist, bourgeoisie, journalism, supernatural ability, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Is relevant?
96
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A drug peddling assignment creates havoc in the lives of three friends.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
fight, criminal, battles, friendship, money, betrayal, murder, depression, drug, slum, prostitute, beach ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Makoto, a youth bound to the slums of Osaka, murders brutally and often, hoarding the entrails he collects atop his rooftop shelter.
Style:
experimental, controversial, disturbing, avant garde, weird ...
Plot:
slum, love letter, darkness, big city, nightmare, sexual perversion, murder, crow, pigeon, war veteran, ghetto, sex doll ...
Place:
osaka japan
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Jaya is an orphan and a born rowdy working in a hotel as a helper. He loves Brinda who also his boss's daughter.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
gangster, forbidden love, problem, star crossed lovers, fight, orphan, love interest, criminal, relationship problems, couple relations, fall in love, male female relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
india
Is relevant?
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:
forbidden love, love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care ...
Style:
crime drama, intense, tense, intercultural, emotional ...
Plot:
violent, gang violence, social realism, moral dilemma, mature, urban decay, friendship, alienation, poverty, isolation, loyalty, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, urban ghetto life, city life, decolonization, poverty, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In Seville, Juan is starting to enjoy his weekends outside of prison when tragedy strikes: his little girl is killed in what looks like an accident.
Style:
social, hood
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, money, investigation, prosecution, corruption, drug dealer, riot, assassination, police, runaway, prison ...
Is relevant?
209
Genre: Music, Romance
Country: Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, realistic
Plot:
teacher, orchestra, talent, youth, transformation, mentor protege relationship, personal growth, redemption, second chance, coming of age, struggle, resilience ...
Place:
venezuela, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound ...
Style:
retro, hood, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fashion, black woman, black, model, fashion model, blaxploitation, african american, ambition, fashion show, glamour, lgbt, black cast ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
rome italy, chicago, italy, europe
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