Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)

This Finnish film makes a simple but eloquent statement:  when you're down and out, your best source of help are the others who are also down and out...just not as far down or out.  Set in the gritty, yet almost nostalgically impoverished working class neighborhood near Le Havre's dockyards, the movie follows the efforts to help a young Gabon refuge reunite with his mother in London.  With nothing but their wits and their hearts, they simultaneously hide him from the authorities while raising the 3000 francs needed to smuggle him out.  Surprising lack of sentimentality.

Perhaps the best moment, though, is the Roberto Piazza (aka Little Bob) gig.  Why isn't this guy better known?

Highly recommend.