Movies: Social issues

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....

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival pol...

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

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 aspects....

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological exam...

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....

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....

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 against the backward society....

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and expl...

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 avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraor...

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

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

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

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 village....

Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made....

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....

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 Antonio. However, when Antonio gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything ...

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