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1) The public
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police, and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what is really happening. This David vs....
3) The soloist
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Los Angeles Times reporter Lopez develops an unlikely friendship with a homeless musician.
4) Being Flynn
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A young man aspiring to be a writer but struggling with insecurities and direction in his life takes a job at a Boston homeless shelter where he unexpectedly discovers his father, an ex-convict and self-proclaimed poet.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Over half a million people are homeless in the United States; 25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles, nearly 54,000 people on any given night three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of 'care in the community' looks like amid a changing policy landscape. Intensely human and humanizing, the film provides a sweeping look at the historic and current causes...
11) Lockdown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When an angry mob attacks a local school believing that homeless people living there spread the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the population, one man stands between the helpless people and the mob.
15) Sunlight Jr.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie are barely making ends meet when they find out they are having a baby. Genuinely excited, they are overjoyed until Melissa loses her job, and the motel where they are living at evicts them. They must now face the difficult choices about their lives and relationship.
17) Land of plenty
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Story about a woman who works with the homeless, and a paranoid Vietnam vet who both become interested in the death of a Pakistani man killed in a drive-by shooting, but for totally different reasons.
18) Above and below
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Far, far away and out of sight, that's where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the dusty, heated Californian nowhere land to beyond the stratosphere where Mars now lives on earth. Each individual has been flung into periling circumstances on this rollercoaster ride called life.