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===Films=== [[File:Chaplin The Kid edit.jpg|thumb|[[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Jackie Coogan]] in ''The Kid'', 1921]] * ''[[The Circus (1928 film)|The Circus]]'' (1928), directed by Charlie Chaplin. * ''[[Beggars of Life]]'' (1928), directed by [[William A. Wellman]] * ''[[City Lights]]'' (1931), directed by Charlie Chaplin. * ''[[Number Seventeen]]'' (1932), directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]. * ''[[Wild Boys of the Road]]'' (1933), directed by William A. Wellman. * ''[[City Limits (1934 film)|City Limits]]'' (1934), directed by [[William Nigh]]. * ''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]'' (1936), directed by Charlie Chaplin. * ''[[Father Steps Out (1941 film)|Father Steps Out]]'' (1941), directed by [[Jean Yarbrough]]. * ''[[Sullivan's Travels]]'' (1941), directed by [[Preston Sturges]]. * ''[[Jack London (film)|Jack London]]'' (1943), biopic directed by [[Alfred Santell]]. * ''[[It Happened on Fifth Avenue]]'' (1947), directed by [[Roy Del Ruth]]. * ''[[Joe Hill (film)|Joe Hill]]'' (1971), directed by [[Bo Widerberg]] * ''[[Boxcar Bertha]]'' (1972), directed by [[Martin Scorsese]] and starring [[Barbara Hershey]] as a sexy hobo girl during the [[Great Depression]]. * ''[[Emperor of the North Pole]]'' a.k.a. ''Emperor of the North'' (1973), directed by Robert Aldrich. Loosely based on [[Jack London]]'s ''[[The Road (London book)|The Road]]''. * ''[[Hard Times (1975 film)|Hard Times]]'' a.k.a. ''The Streetfighter'' (1975), directed by [[Walter Hill (filmmaker)|Walter Hill]] (his directorial debut), and starring [[Charles Bronson]] (as a hobo turned [[Street fighting|street fighter]]). * ''[[The Billion Dollar Hobo]]'' (1977), starring [[Tim Conway]] and [[Will Geer]]. * ''[[Pee-Wee's Big Adventure]]'' (1985), starring [[Pee-wee Herman]], directed by [[Tim Burton]]. Pee-wee meets Hobo Jack when he hops a freight train on his way to the Alamo. * ''[[Vagabond (1985 film)|Vagabond]]'' (1985) (French title: ''Sans Toit Ni Loi''), directed by Agnès Varda, tells the story of a traveling woman's untimely death through [[Flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]] and interviews with the people who met her. * ''[[The Journey of Natty Gann]]'' (1985), starring [[Meredith Salenger]] as a young girl riding the rails to find her father. * ''[[Ironweed (film)|Ironweed]]'' (1987), directed by [[Héctor Babenco]] and based on the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[novel]] by [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]], who also wrote the screenplay. * ''[[Life Stinks]]'' (1991), directed by and starring [[Mel Brooks]]. * ''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]'' (2003), an [[anime]] directed by [[Satoshi Kon]]. * ''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]'' (2007), directed by [[Sean Penn]], based on [[Jon Krakauer]]'s non-fiction book about [[Christopher McCandless]]. * ''[[Resurrecting the Champ]]'' (2007), starring [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[Josh Hartnett]], directed by [[Rod Lurie]]. * ''[[Kit Kittredge: An American Girl]]'' (2008). * ''[[Hobo with a Shotgun]]'' (2011), an [[exploitation film]] directed by Jason Eisener and written by John Davies, starring [[Rutger Hauer]] as a [[vigilante]] hobo. * ''[[The Muppets (2011 film)|The Muppets]]'' (2011), the film features a character named Hobo Joe (played by [[Zach Galifianakis]]) and some [[Whatnot (Muppet)|Whatnot]] hoboes. They later appeared in the sequel ''[[Muppets Most Wanted]]'' (2014). * ''[[Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel]]'' (2013) depicts [[Clark Kent]] living as a homeless itinerant worker before ultimately taking the mantle of [[Superman]] and finding work as a reporter at the ''[[Daily Planet]]''. * ''[[Nomadland (film)|Nomadland]]'' (2020), directed by [[Chloé Zhao]]. * Many animated cartoons depict hoboes as main or secondary characters, hobo-related activities such as traveling by train, with a [[bindle]], or in the company of hoboes. For example, [[Warner Brothers]]' ''[[Box Car Blues]]'' (1930) with [[Bosko]], ''Hobo Gadget Band'' (1939), [[MGM]]'s ''Henpecked Hoboes'' (1946) with [[George and Junior]] in their first appearance, ''Mouse Wreckers'' (1948), ''8 Ball Bunny'' (1950) with [[Bugs Bunny]], and ''[[The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town]]'' (1977).
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