Life at the bottom

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows life at the bottom

poster Buried Alive
Buried Alive
62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…
poster Fire!
Fire!
5mn - Action, Drama
Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awa…
poster Dog Heaven
Dog Heaven
32mn - Comedy
Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in fl…
poster Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
(3.7/5)
94mn - History, Drama
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is sh…
poster Growth of the Soil
Growth of the Soil
(3.3/5)
107mn - Drama
In rural Norway in the early 20th century, the homesteader Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with his wife Inger and their two sons. Life is both harsh and fulfilling.
poster Children of Eve
Children of Eve
(3.1/5)
73mn - Drama, Crime
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-…
poster Containment
Containment
77mn - Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
Residents of an apartment block awaken to find themselves mysteriously sealed inside their homes with no power, no water, and no explanation, while hazmat-suited figures patrol outside and eliminate anyon…
poster Fishing for Goldfish
Fishing for Goldfish
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.
poster A Life for a Life
A Life for a Life
(3.2/5)
67mn - Drama
Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
(2.9/5)
7mn - Drama, Action, Thriller
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
poster Isn't Life Wonderful
Isn't Life Wonderful
(3.4/5)
115mn - Drama, Romance
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has o…
poster Ghost Webcam
Ghost Webcam
(2.8/5)
60mn - Horror
Trapped under house arrest, a young man witnesses his virtual date's horrifying death through a mysterious webcam feed from a haunted house. Unable to leave home without risking arrest, he must rely on hi…
poster Sin's Kitchen
Sin's Kitchen
(2.6/5)
91mn - Drama
Mobsters, ex-cons, grad students and other desperate persons see their various fates converge in the Mojave Desert.
poster Love In Limbo
Love In Limbo
(2.7/5)
95mn -
Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoorlie’s infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt …
poster 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
10mn - Adventure, Fantasy
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both r…
poster Dunces and Dangers
Dunces and Dangers
(3.2/5)
10mn - Comedy
Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and every…
poster America Adrift
America Adrift
(3.3/5)
80mn -
Cecelia Fernandez thought she had achieved the American Dream when she moved her family to a beautiful Long Island home, but her world crumbles when her youngest son Cameron falls victim to the heroin epi…
poster The Fat Spy
The Fat Spy
80mn - Comedy
When a boatload of teenage treasure hunters descends upon a mysterious Florida island rumored to contain the fountain of youth, they unwittingly trigger a chaotic competition with eccentric adults who hav…
poster Life After Pi
Life After Pi
(3.8/5)
30mn - Documentary
“Life After Pi” is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi”– just two weeks after de…
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