Movies and TvShows featuring "street-urchin" theme.

Dead End is a movie about the social divide in 1930s New York City, following the lives of a group of people residing in the slums and the rich-poor dynamics. The story revolves around a murder, a wanted fugitive, and a group of juvenile delinquents known as the Dead End Kids.

Christine Collins takes on the LAPD to find her missing child, battling corruption and the wrongful conviction of an impostor.

Chop Shop (2007) tells the story of an orphaned boy named Alejandro, who lives and works in a chop shop in Queens, New York City. He dreams of saving enough money to buy a food truck and start his own business. However, his plans are jeopardized when his sister Isamar runs away and he must find a way to support them both.

The Children of Leningradsky is a documentary that follows the lives of homeless children living in the Leningradsky Railway Station in Moscow. It explores the tragic events and struggles of these children, including drug abuse, child prostitution, and the challenges they face as orphans in post-Soviet Union Russia.

In Victorian England, a beggar boy named Wheeler finds himself living in Windsor Castle after he is discovered by Queen Victoria. As Wheeler navigates this new world of privilege and obligation, he learns about love, loss, and the power of friendship.

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin. Van der Keuken once described her as follows: 'She was ten years old and the joy of the Achtergracht, where I was living at the time. An Amsterdam child, sweet and crooked as a corkscrew.' He films her while she skims the city with some friends and knocks at strangers' doors. Her family has nine children and is not well off. In those days, a visit to the De Miranda swimming pool cost a quarter, but only ten cents if the weather was bad. At school, Beppie gets a poor mark because she is too boisterous, but when the whole class rattles off the multiplication tables, she joins in at the top of her voice. All of TV-watching Holland was wildly enthusiastic about this portrait, with which Van der Keuken even made the front page of the national newspaper De Telegraaf.

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. Now wealthy, Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods – helpless in the world.

Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes they steal, or break into houses if hired.

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.