Social Issues Movies

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

Amrita's life gets shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party and this particular action raises several questions as to what her...

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

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...

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

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a...