I may have missed some of the responses about poverty in films, but surely one problem lies in how poverty is defined--are any films depicting hardships in urban or rural life automatically about poverty too? With that aside, let me suggest a few more: Films about poor children abound in many countries SALAAM BOMBAY, PIXOTE, MUDDY RIVER come to mind Kurosawa has ventured into this area with the unusually expressionistic DODESKADEN (and edged on it with others). Many of Satyajit Ray's films deal with poverty in some form. DISTANT THUNDER is a case of poverty-as-famine inflicted especially by wartime British Imperial policies. INSECT WOMAN by Imamura depicts a poor woman's struggle to survive. YELLOW EARTH and LIFE ON A STRING both deal with (financially) impoverished characters. On the brighter side of things, there's Chaplin's Tramp, especially in THE GOLD RUSH, MODERN TIMES and CITY LIGHTS. For sheer rage against poverty, it's hard to beat Bunuel. See especially LOS OLVIDADOS and his bitter documentary LAND WITHOUT BREAD/LOS HURDES. The lack of money underlies many American social dramas and a number of films noirs as well: GREED STELLA DALLAS THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (remade as THIEVES LIKE US) A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN I REMEMBER MAMA And then there are the film versions of a number of Charles Dickens's works: DAVID COPPERFIELD, OLIVER TWIST (and OLIVER! the musical), GREAT EXPECTATIONS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL etc. Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]