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Down On Their Luck

This theme applies to films about characters who have fallen on severely hard financial times, usually descending into poverty or homelessness.
Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1989 Roger & Me   Michael Moore
  9 Stars 1968 Oliver!   Carol Reed
  9 Stars 1969 Midnight Cowboy   John Schlesinger
  9 Stars 1940 The Grapes of Wrath   John Ford
  9 Stars 1948 The Bicycle Thief   Vittorio De Sica
    8 Stars 1993 Ruby in Paradise   Victor Nuñez
  8 Stars 1952 Umberto D.   Vittorio De Sica
  8 Stars 1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   Elia Kazan
  8 Stars 1981 Pixote   Hector Babenco
  8 Stars 1988 Pelle the Conqueror   Bille August
  8 Stars 1939 Of Mice and Men   Lewis Milestone
  8 Stars 1937 The Good Earth   Victor Fleming
  8 Stars 1935 David Copperfield   George Cukor
  7 Stars 2000 Dark Days   Marc Singer
  7 Stars 2000 Erin Brockovich   Steven Soderbergh
  7 Stars 1998 Ratcatcher   Lynne Ramsay
    7 Stars 1999 Rosetta   Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  7 Stars 1998 The Dreamlife of Angels   Erick Zonca
  7 Stars 1997 Hands on a Hard Body   S. R. Bindler
  7 Stars 1997 The Full Monty   Peter Cattaneo
  7 Stars 1996 Bastard out of Carolina   Anjelica Huston
  7 Stars 1991 Riff-Raff   Ken Loach
  7 Stars 1993 Raining Stones   Ken Loach
  7 Stars 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory   Mel Stuart
  7 Stars 1983 Trading Places   John Landis
    7 Stars 1956 On the Bowery   Lionel Rogosin
  7 Stars 1986 Little Shop of Horrors   Frank Oz
  6 Stars 2000 Billy Elliot   Stephen Daldry
  6 Stars 1999 Agnes Browne   Anjelica Huston
  6 Stars 1998 Slums of Beverly Hills   Tamara Jenkins
  6 Stars 1997 Nil by Mouth   Gary Oldman
  6 Stars 1997 Gridlock'd   Vondie Curtis-Hall
  6 Stars 1996 The Van   Stephen Frears
  6 Stars 1994 Imaginary Crimes   Anthony Drazan
  6 Stars 1987 Ironweed   Hector Babenco
    5 Stars 1992 Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint   Michael Moore
  5 Stars 2000 Two Family House   Raymond de Felitta
    5 Stars 1997 Public Housing   Frederick Wiseman
  5 Stars 1992 Where the Day Takes You   Marc Rocco
  5 Stars 1986 Seize the Day   Fielder Cook
  5 Stars 1990 The Field   Jim Sheridan
  4 Stars 1999 Angela's Ashes   Alan Parker
  4 Stars 1993 A Home of Our Own   Tony Bill
  4 Stars 1984 The River   Mark Rydell
  4 Stars 1992 Newsies   Kenny Ortega
 
 
 
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