Homelessness Movies

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the...

“Silent sufferers” This film tells a harrowing story of a young woman’s struggle with death and abuse. It is the story of a young...

Filmed over a number of years, David Vondráček’s powerful documentary records the lives of Jan and Jana, a homeless couple who find...

32 year old female boxer Steluta Duta tries to buy her own home by winning boxing match after boxing match only to find her life is a continuous...

“Set against the rattle of shopping carts and the white noise of L.A. traffic... “Disco’d” is an unvarnished, moving look at...

Waifs, homeless, derelicts, almsmen, others, forgettens, outcasts, unwanteds. The Hotel of Waifs; a temporary resting place far from home, an...

A young girl named Wendy becomes homeless. She faces trials and tribulations through this new lifestyle but manages to keep her humility.

A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.

Waiting for Barcelona revolves around the struggles of undocumented immigrants collecting scrap metal and selling illegal replicas in Barcelona. The...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

After the death of his grandmother, an 18 year-old boy lives in a homeless shelter.

A look at the homeless problem in Manchester

This movie follows Paul as he travels through his town to find out who framed him for the murder of a little girl, all while he deals with the trauma...

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...

No Place to Grow Old is the first documentary to capture a growing crisis unfolding quietly across America: older adults aging into homelessness. Set...

SHELTER IN THE CITY is a documentary about homelessness that focuses on a father’s heartbreaking struggle to get his mentally ill son off the...

Bullied in school, a young pupils life becomes a living hell.

A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves...