Here we've displayed a list of the best Social Issues films : I Am Not Your Negro(2016), Mudbound(2017), Fahrenheit 11/9(2018), The Miracle of the Little Prince(2018), Sorry to Bother You(2018), Miss Virginia(2019), Brainwashed(1960), Jeanne and the Perfect Guy(1998), The Workshop(2017), Cosmonaut(2009), Leave to Remain(2013), Walk Proud(1978) ... ...
Documentary
Switzerland|France|Belgium|USA
2016
95 Minutes
writer agent martin luther king jr. disturbing engaging inspiring moving mississippi new york city tennessee american dream social issues racial issues black culture civil rights discovery fall love pursuit quest
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Drama, History
USA
2017
134 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jason Clarke Jason Mitchell Mary J. Blige Rob Morgan Garrett Hedlund Jonathan Banks Frankie Smith Kennedy Derosin Kelvin Harrison Jr. Kerry Cahill
mother farmer child brother-in-law soldier sharecropper emotional profound disturbing powerful mississippi farm field racism racial issues life after wartime social issues pursuit love discovery
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Documentary
USA
2018
128 Minutes
michael moore documentarian political activist politician citizen u.s. president bleak disheartening uneasy tense unrestrained passionate united states restaurant protest office government building american culture social injustice politics
Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.
Documentary
Netherlands|Norway
2018
89 Minutes
translator local touching engaging inspiring village wilderness desert home interview social issues passion language preservation perseverance writing discovery quest 2010s
A documentary about the passionate translators of the book The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who fight for the preservation of their endangered languages.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Fantasy
USA
2018
105 Minutes
LaKeith Stanfield Tessa Thompson Jermaine Fowler Omari Hardwick Terry Crews Kate Berlant Michael X. Sommers Danny Glover Steven Yeun Armie Hammer Robert Longstreet
telemarketer friend co-worker ceo amusing hilarious outlandish unrestrained madcap oakland, calif. office protest office building conference room apartment materialism wealth relationships success social issues
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.
Drama
USA
2019
102 Minutes
Matthew Modine Samantha Sloyan Amirah Vann Vanessa Williams Adina Porter Uzo Aduba April Grace Aunjanue Ellis Niles Fitch Erik LaRay Harvey Nadji Jeter
single mother teen boy politician talk show host city official moving emotional inspiring intense washington, d.c. neighborhood street drugs education parenting social issues love pursuit quest sacrifice
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Drama
West Germany
1960
102 Minutes
Curt Jurgens Claire Bloom Hansjoerg Felmy Mario Adorf Hans Söhnker Albert Bessler Rudolf Forster Alan Gifford
prisoner austrian nazi invader lawyer gripping melodramatic suspenseful gritty prison car vienna street nazi germany city schemes struggle rebellion confinement social issues
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the ... See full summary »
Musical
France
1998
105 Minutes
Virginie Ledoyen Jacques Martineau Mathieu Demy Jacques Bonnaffé Valérie Bonneton Frédéric Gorny Denis Podalydès
single woman love interest friend lover passionate brooding france household subway hospital single life aids true love romance infidelity social issues love quest 1990s
Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Lovers at every corner of her life she is still in search of that "one". When a impromptu tryst on the subway with Olivier gives... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2017
113 Minutes
Marina Foïs Matthieu Lucci Florian Beaujean Mamadou Doumbia Mélissa Guilbert Warda Rammach Julien Souve Issam Talbi
novelist aspiring writer young man loner brooding disturbing solemn sultry intense disheartening south of france town creative process social issues industrial landscapes growing up underdog mystery 2010s
The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy
2009
85 Minutes
Claudia Pandolfi Sergio Rubini Pietro Del Giudice Susanna Nicchiarelli Angelo Orlando Marianna Raschillà
teenager communist classmate younger brother idealist girl offbeat heartwarming family home school italy hometown postwar italy social issues passion coming-of-age following your heart idealism growing up 1950s
Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with... See full summary »
Drama
UK
2013
89 Minutes
Toby Jones Noof Ousellam Masieh Zarrien Emma N. Power Yasmin Mwanza Melanie Wilder Anusha Prakash
young person bleak disheartening engaging intense moving powerful raw united kingdom refugees coming of age social issues culture shock escape growing up 2010s
Three teenagers forced to leave their family, friends and homes behind learn to live in yet another hostile country. That country is the UK.
Drama
USA
1978
98 Minutes
Robby Benson Sarah Holcomb Henry Darrow Pepe Serna Trinidad Silva Ji-Tu Cumbuka Lawrence Pressman Domingo Ambriz Brad Sullivan Irene De Bari Carlos Cervantes
gang member girlfriend police sergeant rival young man emotional tense dark los angeles street street life going straight young love racial issues social issues gangs growing up forbidden love 1970s
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Documentary
2018
107 Minutes
Astra Taylor Cornel West Angela Davis Eleni Perdikouri William Barber
citizen expert activist politician philosopher bleak fascinating incredible emotional engaging syria united states parade park protest office democracy philosophical conflict philosophy social issues
This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.
Drama
2018
135 Minutes
Virginie Efira Niels Schneider Jehnny Beth Estelle Lescure Coralie Russier Iliana Zabeth Catherine Morlot Ambre Hasaj Sasha Alessandri-Torrès Garcia
birth father single mother lover daughter inspiring heartwarming tender town flat france regret fling social issues estrangement failed romance absence forbidden love growing up love
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.