Kill the Poor is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Daniel Handler, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Joel Rose.

The film is set in Manhattan's Alphabet City in the early 1980s, when the neighborhood was a center of illegal drug activity.

The film's title is inspired by the Dead Kennedys' song "Kill the Poor".

Kill the Poor begins with a fire in the apartment of tough guy Carlos DeJesus and his trouble-making son, Segundo.

The screenplay then focuses on the other tenants of the rundown building in an attempt to determine who set the blaze.