Social Problem Film
MOVIE
North Country (2005)
A constant barrage of abuse from her co-workers spurs a miner (Charlize Theron) to file a sexual...
MOVIE
Traffic (2000)
While a judge's (Michael Douglas) anti-drug campaign leads him to his own daughter, a DEA agent...
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Crash (2005)
Racial tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents (Sandra Bullock,...
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L' Enfant (2006)
A directionless couple (Jérémie Renier, Déborah François) must deal with life-changing...
MOVIE
Trade (2007)
When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother,...
MOVIE
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Unemployed and pregnant, a Colombian teenager (Catalina Sandino Moreno) takes a job smuggling drugs...
MOVIE
3 Needles (2006)
Three stories about AIDS revolve around missionary nuns, black-market blood and a Canadian porn star...
MOVIE
It's a Free World... (2008)
After being fired from her job, Angie teams with her friend to find employment for immigrants.
MOVIE
Vera Drake (2004)
A middle-aged mother (Imelda Staunton) secretly works as an abortionist in low-rent London...
MOVIE
Norma Rae (1979)
A union organizer (Ron Leibman) from up North recruits a divorced cotton-mill worker (Sally Field)...
MOVIE
City of Hope (1991)
A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile,...
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Still Life (2008)
Citizens return to a flooded town to salvage what they can and say good-bye to things they lost.
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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
An eccentric (Melanie Griffith) kills her abusive husband and heads to Hollywood to pursue her...
MOVIE
Half Nelson (2006)
A Brooklyn teacher (Ryan Gosling) struggles with drug addiction while trying to serve as a father...
MOVIE
Paradise Now (2005)
Two Palestinian men (Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman) are chosen to commit a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv,...
MOVIE
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...
MOVIE
Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining...
MOVIE
Love With the Proper Stranger (1963)
Pregnancy surprises a working girl (Natalie Wood) and a trumpet player (Steve McQueen) from Italian...
MOVIE
Serpico (1973)
Based on the true story of Frank Serpico, who sacrificed his career to expose widespread corruption...
MOVIE
Beautiful Country (2005)
A Vietnamese youth (Damien Nguyen) of mixed race undertakes an arduous journey to the United States...
MOVIE
Bordertown
A journalist (Jennifer Lopez) probes the murders of hundreds of Mexican women near a Juarez factory...
MOVIE
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle...
MOVIE
City of Men (2008)
Two friends (Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha) land on opposing sides of a gang war in the slums of Rio...
MOVIE
Age of Infidelity (1957)
Two illicit lovers accidentally run over a cyclist and leave him behind to die, fearing exposure of...
MOVIE
Boys in Brown
Brown is the color of the uniforms worn by the residents of a British borstal (boy's...
PEOPLE
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Influential Bombay-based Leftist journalist turned screenwriter and later writer-producer-director....
MOVIE
The Young Savages (1961)
An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a...
MOVIE
Viva Laldjerie (2004)
A former exotic dancer (Biyouna), her daughter (Lubna Azabal) and a young admirer try to live in the...
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Where the Day Takes You (1992)
A group of homeless teenagers try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles.
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Little Vera (1989)
Much to her parents discontent, a young girl from a small town quits school, and begins a...
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