🏷 Discover The Best Homeless Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the Realities of Homelessness through Cinema

Homelessness is a complex and multifaceted issue that affects millions of people worldwide. While documentaries and news reports often provide a glimpse into the lives of those experiencing homelessness, films and TV shows can offer a more nuanced and empathetic portrayal of this issue. In this article, we'll explore some of the best movies and TV shows related to homelessness, highlighting their thought-provoking storylines, compelling characters, and impactful themes.

Cast

Margaret Qualley

Nick Robinson

Andie MacDowell

Rylea Nevaeh Whittet

Maid (2021) TV Show

8.0 951 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

Plot: underdog, based on novel or book, homelessness, based on true story, domestic abuse, poverty, maid, based on memoir or autobiography, ...

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

7.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 encounter leads them to many adventures.

Plot: parent child relationship, runaway, homelessness, training, portal, coming of age, tokyo, japan, ...

Place: japan

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: G

Story: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Plot: witch, adolescence, dreams, secret identity, lion, tornado, twister, scarecrow, ...

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Style: cynical, provocative

Plot: new york city, friendship, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, shower, hustler, homelessness, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Lilia Skala

Lisa Mann

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Isa Crino

Lilies of the Field (1963)

7.2 224 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Plot: based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, religion, racism, ...

Cast

Frances McDormand

David Strathairn

Linda May

Swankie

Nomadland (2021)

7.2 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Style: intimate

Plot: factory worker, van, based on novel or book, nevada, recession, homelessness, road trip, unemployment, ...

Cast

Taylor Russell

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Mark Rylance

Anna Cobb

Bones and All (2022)

7.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance

Country: Italy, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Style: intimate, suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, sense of guilt, homelessness, addiction, road trip, love, interracial romance, teenage girl, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jennifer Aniston

Jason Sudeikis

Emma Roberts

Will Poulter

We're the Millers (2013)

6.8 9.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

Plot: drug dealer, drug smuggling, fireworks, camping, denver, colorado, carnival, witness protection, ...

Place: mexico

A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)

6.7 105 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 93 min.

Story: James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.

Plot: london, england, cat, holiday, homelessness, sequel, busker, unlucky, ...

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things

Cast

Joshua Fields Millburn

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Ryan Nicodemus

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Dan Harris

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Joshua Becker

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015)

6.6 406 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 79 min.

Audience: NR

Story: How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.

Plot: homelessness, promotion, tiny home, minimalism, declutter

Cast

Arielle Holmes

Caleb Landry Jones

Elu00e9onore Hendricks

Buddy Duress

Heaven Knows What (2015)

6.5 195 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

Plot: drug dealer, infidelity, new york city, suicide, based on novel or book, suicide attempt, heroin, drug addiction, ...

Cast

Jason Statham

Agata Buzek

Vicky McClure

Benedict Wong

Hummingbird (2013)

6.2 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

Plot: london, england, homeless person, redemption, chinese mafia, criminal underworld, stolen identity, homeless

Cast

Jake Johnson

Anna Kendrick

Natalie Morales

Andy Samberg

Self Reliance (2024)

5.9 326 votes

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.

Plot: isolation, boredom, paranoia, dark comedy, satire, social commentary, homeless, dark web, ...