Social Issues Movies

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to und...

A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

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...

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

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

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 villa...

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.

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.

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant e...

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

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...

A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When...

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

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...

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...

Amrita's life gets shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party and this particular action raises several questions as to what her rela...

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

Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is m...

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

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