Social Issues Movies

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...

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

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

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...

A gripping tale of two young people from contrasting worlds who are thrust together by a twist of fate. A man from Nepal's Terai plains accidentally...

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

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

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

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

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

The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.

An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender...

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.

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

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