Social Issues Movies

A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

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 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...

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

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.

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting...

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...

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

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...

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...

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

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.

Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made.

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

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy...

When her estranged mother falls into a coma, a self-made single mom grapples with regret and resentment while reflecting on their strained...