Social Issues Movies

A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

David has several problems. At a very young age, he sees his father become addicted to drugs and his mother to alcohol. His parents divorce because...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the...

An anthology of 7 Mexican short films, all created by 5 up-and-coming independent filmmakers, with a common thread: to explore themes of human...

This documentary delves deeper into the racism issue addressing many discriminatory practices in Peru, researching their origins and their hurtful...

Harris, a poor Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia, simply wants to return to his hometown to marry the love of his life. However, his leave is denied...

Journalist Catriona MacPhee goes undercover as a cleaner at Castlehill Care Home in the Scottish Highlands, spending around seven weeks in the role....

In the 1980's, Pilar, an ordinary woman, married, about forty years, discovers that one of their three children are addicted to heroin. After an...

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Alex doesn't go to school and spends his day hanging around, seemingly free, doing what he was told not to do; Steven tries to hold down a job, but...

An assistant director investigates the authenticity of a popular autobiographical novel being adapted into a movie.

What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

In America women can go to jail for their husbands’ crimes, men are allowed to marry ten-year-olds, and abortions in some states are illegal,...

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his...