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.

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...

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 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...

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

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

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 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 clueless wannabe star moves to LA and goes viral for all the wrong reasons, only to evolve into a slightly less terrible version of himself....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A young woman's life is shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party, causing her to question what this relationship stands for.