Social Issues Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends...

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.

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...

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

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women....

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.

Animation and activism unite in this multimedia spoken-word response to police brutality and racial injustice.

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