Social Issues Movies

A young woman's life is shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party, causing her to question what this relationship stands for.

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

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

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time...

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

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women....

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends...

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...

Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars,...

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy...

The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.

The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to...

An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

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

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers...