Social Issues Movies

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.

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

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

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

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...

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 fight...

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

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 villa...

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 self...

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend...

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

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 for singl...

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

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

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

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.

When a progressive, midwestern pastor's life is threatened by extremists, she must answer to a gang of interrogating FBI Agents as she reels from the...