The Great American Hobo (1980)

Após salvar um recém-nascido de assassinos, o atirador comedor de cenoura Sr. Smith se une a uma prostituta chamada DQ para proteger um bebê de outros ataques. Um assassino profissional os persegue e Smith e DQ descobrem o plano de um senador de tirar medulas de bebês, como o que eles têm nos braços.

Uma série bizarra de desaparecimentos repentinos nas ruas da cidade de Nova York parece apontar para algo desagradável que vive nos esgotos.

Acostumado a dirigir filmes simples e sem grandes implicações, o cineasta John L. Sullivan decide fazer um filme sobre os problemas sociais, mas é desencorajado por seus produtores, que o acham incapaz para tal. Para provar o contrário, ele se traveste de mendigo e vai para as ruas, para viver a experiência de perto e ter contato com a realidade.

Lee Marvin é um Hobo (vagabundo, desempregado) veterano, com grande instinto de sobrevivência, que se autointitula o "O Imperador do Polo Norte". Keith Carradine é um novato no mundo das caronas em trens, incapaz de parar de contar vantagem. Ernest Borgnine, o responsável pelo trem #19, que se gaba de nunca ter permitido que um mendigo pegasse uma carona em seu trem e está disposto a matar para garantir que as coisas continuem dessa forma. A vida dos três entra em conflito quando lutam pelo trem.

Mendigo e sem sorte, Dave decide se matar, entrando no quintal de um estranho e tentando se afogar na piscina. Contudo, os planos de Jerry são interrompidos pelo dono da piscina, o homem de negócios Dave, que tira o mendigo da água e o leva para dentro. Mas a hospitalidade de Dave e a sua esposa obcecada com status, Barbara, não impressionam Jerry, que os ignora e persegue Carmen, a empregada da família.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Biografia de Woody Guthrie, cantor country durante os anos da Grande Depressão americana. Assim como muitos músicos e trabalhadores da época, Woody largou sua terra natal para tentar uma vida melhor, apesar das adversidades vividas por esse grupo da sociedade por todo o país. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

Enquanto filmava um documentário sobre os desaparecimentos suspeitos dentro da comunidade de sem-teto, um cineasta e sua equipe desaparecem enquanto descobrem um segredo terrível e cruel sob a superfície da cidade.

Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narrates this remarkable examination of the uniquely American Hobo.

Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too are today's train riders. FREELOAD is a dive into a beggar's existence. It is a ride through America's backyard. It is a musical endeavor that feels like a drama. It is a sociological examination of the ignored.

The wacky, jolly, hair-raising adventures of singing streetcar conductor Foxy.

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.

As crenças fanáticas de um místico da Internet, do líder de um culto e de um polícia velhaco são testadas durante a caça ao “Homem Escondido”, um criptídeo que anda a aterrorizar o seu subúrbio idílico.

Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.

Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to Seattle with Beargrease, a part-time hobo and full time philosopher, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The pair meet up several other men living life on the margins: in particular a scene in which Duffy - an ex-corporate executive now living under a bridge in Spokane & collecting cans - describes how he got there is riveting.

A hobo named the Professor and his son, Charlie McCarthy, believe there's money buried in an abandoned house which was previously owned by a fellow named Herbie Larkin. Pretending to be Herbie's brother, the Professor dreams of finding the money by consulting a gypsy fortune teller, who conjures up more than Charlie likes. The reality of the situation eventually sets in.