Top Homeless Movies / TV
by cyrustiz | created - 09 Mar 2022 | updated - 29 Sep 2022 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Homeless (II) (2015)
92 min | Drama
An 18 year old boy navigates his way through life in a shelter after the passing of his grandmother.
Director: Clay Riley Hassler | Stars: Michael McDowell, Lance Megginson, Julie Dunagan, Hosanna Gourley
Votes: 285
2. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,151 | Gross: $2.18M
3. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,169
4. Time Out of Mind (2014)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.
Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 4,506 | Gross: $0.16M
5. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
R | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Marion Stalens
Votes: 15,452 | Gross: $0.12M
6. Homeless Ashes (2019)
117 min | Drama
Frankie, a young boy who stands up to his fear and runs from home ending up homeless with no choice but trying to survive life on the streets.
Director: Marc Zammit | Stars: Marc Zammit, Lew Temple, Hector Bateman-Harden, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 2,181
7. Gardens of the Night (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Director: Damian Harris | Stars: Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold
Votes: 4,703
8. Rosie (I) (2018)
PG-13 | 86 min | Drama
The story of a mother trying to protect her family after their landlord sells their rented home and they become homeless.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Sarah Greene, Molly McCann, Darragh Mckenzie, Ruby Dunne
Votes: 2,176 | Gross: $0.01M
9. The Soloist (2009)
PG-13 | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander
Votes: 55,413 | Gross: $31.67M
10. Being Flynn (2012)
R | 102 min | Drama
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 17,839 | Gross: $0.53M
11. Shelter (I) (2014)
TV-MA | 105 min | Drama
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Director: Paul Bettany | Stars: Adolfo Mendez-Nouel, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Arnold Hoffman, Teddy Cañez
Votes: 5,389
12. Boot Polish (1954)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Preteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father, to be taken care of, by an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.
Director: Prakash Arora | Stars: Kumari Naaz, Ratan Kumar, David Abraham, Chand Burke
Votes: 884
13. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,530
14. Paradise Drifters (2020)
85 min | Drama
Paradise Drifters is a fragmented portrayal of three homeless young adults who are heading to southern Europe in search of money, love and happiness.
Director: Mees Peijnenburg | Stars: Tamar van Waning, Jonas Smulders, Bilal Wahib, Joren Seldeslachts
Votes: 459
15. Hector (2015)
87 min | Drama
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once-comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing ... See full summary »
Director: Jake Gavin | Stars: Peter Mullan, Keith Allen, Natalie Gavin, Sharon Rooney
Votes: 1,807
16. The Good Heart (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.
Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell, Boði
Votes: 5,175 | Gross: $0.02M
17. The Homesman (2014)
R | 122 min | Drama, Western
Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto
Votes: 35,759 | Gross: $2.43M
18. Topside (2020)
85 min | Drama
Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home.
Directors: Logan George, Celine Held | Stars: Zhaila Farmer, Celine Held, Jared Abrahamson, Fatlip
Votes: 663
19. Scarborough (2021)
136 min | Drama
Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
Directors: Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Stars: Liam Diaz, Mekiya Fox, Anna Claire Beitel, Felix Jedi Ingram Isaac
Votes: 478
20. The Drifters (2019)
91 min | Romance
Koffee, an African migrant, and Fanny, a French waitress, are two lost souls who attempt to find home in one another and escape the labels that inevitably leave them homeless. A sun-drenched romance about identity.
Director: Ben Bond | Stars: Jonathan Ajayi, Lucie Bourdeu, Tia Bannon, Ariyon Bakare
Votes: 30
21. Three Times Nothing (2022)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Three homeless men who won the lottery need to find a way to claim their prize.
Director: Nadège Loiseau | Stars: Antoine Bertrand, Philippe Rebbot, Côme Levin, Émilie Caen
Votes: 409
22. My Way Home (1978)
Not Rated | 71 min | Biography, Drama
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carrol
Votes: 864
23. Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)
189 min | Drama, Romance
When a homeless and orphaned young man finds work in the house of a wealthy man, he falls in love with the daughter of that wealthy man. But things start to change a lot thereafter.
Director: Prakash Mehra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, Rekha
Votes: 3,055
24. Scarecrow (1973)
R | 112 min | Drama
An ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth
Votes: 19,245 | Gross: $9.00M
25.
Top Boy (2011–2023)
Episode:
Press Gang
(2019)
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After Jamie's crew makes a move on the Summerhouse youth, Jaq and Dris commence recruitment. Modie gives an order but Jamie presses his own agenda.
Director: Brady Hood | Stars: Ashley Walters, Kano, Micheal Ward, Shone Romulus
Votes: 552
26. The Hired Hand (1971)
R | 90 min | Drama, Western
Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.
Director: Peter Fonda | Stars: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt
Votes: 3,794
27. The Stoneman Murders (2009)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1980s Bombay, a serial killer starts targeting homeless street dwellers, whilst a suspended police officer attempts to solve the case.
Director: Manish Gupta | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Arbaaz Khan, Rukhsar Rehman, Veerendra Saxena
Votes: 3,489
28. Choose Me (1984)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau
Votes: 3,089 | Gross: $2.49M
29. Simple Wishes (2009)
26 min | Short
Simple Wishes documents homeless children and the compelling lives of four families as they move through transitional housing.
Director: Kyle Mengelkamp | Star: LeVar Burton
30. Adopting Audrey (2021)
92 min | Drama
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Jena Malone, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Emily Kuroda, Will Rogers
Votes: 360
31. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (2021)
75 min | Biography
An underground musician becomes obsessed with Bernie Madoff's massive financial fraud and finds herself inside a real-life meta-musical investigation about trust, deception and healing.
Director: Alicia J. Rose | Stars: Alicia Jo Rabins, Robin McAlpine, Judy Silk, Lois Feuerle
Votes: 52
32.
Growing Up (2022)
Episode:
Gavin
(2022)
TV-PG | Documentary
The experiences of a young man growing up.
Director: Bernardo Ruiz
33. VTC (2021– )
90 min | Thriller
Nora (Golshifteh Farahani) is a night driver for a ride sharing app whose life is falling apart: drowning in debt, divorced, and sleeping in her car to save money to rent an apartment and obtain joint custody of her daughter.
Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Vincent Heneine, Rachid Guellaz, Eddy Suiveng
Votes: 449
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