begging
8 movies and shows
Three Little Pigskins
Sat, 08 Dec 1934
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
Annaluise & Anton
Wed, 26 Aug 1953
Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in order to afford life for his sick mother and himself. Together they undergo different adventures, even preventing a theft in Pünktchens home
Perro callejero
Thu, 28 Feb 1980
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Cup of Jo: The Patron Saint of Desperate Cases
Invalid Date
A single mother begs, borrows, and steals to provide her son with a better life than she had, with little help from her ex-husband or her mother.
Democracy Is ...
Sat, 31 Jan 2009
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?
The Drunkard
Wed, 28 Aug 1946
A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.
The Beggar
Mon, 07 Nov 1983
After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.
Helping Mihaela
Thu, 22 Sep 2011
A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.