Social Issues Movies

A disillusioned Seoul woman visits a remote island to reconnect with a childhood friend, only to find her trapped in an oppressive cycle of physical,...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to...

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in...

With only his wife by his side, a promising young boxer flees communist Poland to chase his dream of becoming the greatest fighter in history.

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome...

After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic...

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her...

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true...

​A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The happy household is suddenly thrown...

A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

Kay is a tough-as-nails investigative reporter, and goes undercover at a home for the disabled based on a tip about staff abuse of the residents. She...

A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.

Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the...

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as...