Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Casts Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Mackie, Amy Hargreaves, Bruce Altman, Andrew Polk, Paul Urcioli, Teddy Cañez, Scott Johnsen, Rob Morgan, Kevin Geer
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crossing Over
With Honors
200 Cigarettes
Hungry Hearts
The Children Nobody Wanted
Hunger
Everything's Jake
The Class
Christiane F.
Little Fish
Just My Luck
Kontinental '25
American Loser
The Goodbye Girl
Soñadora
Spanglish
The Basketball Diaries
Happy-Go-Lucky
Run for Your Life!
Sex and the City
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crossing Over
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 2009
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.With Honors
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1994
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.200 Cigarettes
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 1999
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.Hungry Hearts
IMDB 1 | Nov , 1922
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.The Children Nobody Wanted
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1981
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.Hunger
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2020
Living by the railway tracks, a homeless man makes his living by selling novelty items at the busy traffic signals on the streets of Mumbai. The high point of his existence is passing a restaurant that serves the food he dreams of. One day he gets an opportunity to fulfil his life's big desire.Everything's Jake
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2000
A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.The Class
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2008
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.Christiane F.
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1981
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.Little Fish
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 2005
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.Just My Luck
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2006
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.Kontinental '25
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2025
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.American Loser
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 2007
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.The Goodbye Girl
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1977
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.Soñadora
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2021
A young Caribbean immigrant mother struggling to make ends meet at her dye factory job finds a release through her abandoned dream of dance.Spanglish
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2004
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.The Basketball Diaries
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.Happy-Go-Lucky
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 2008
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.Run for Your Life!
IMDB 5 | Apr , 2008
He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.Sex and the City
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2008
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.