Social Issues Movies

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

An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a...

Using original animation, archival footage and personal interviews, this full-length documentary portrays the multiple relationships Canadian Muslim...

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

Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social...

This short documentary depicts an Aboriginal Winnipeg teen’s struggle to stay in school and away from local gangs. Filmed over 2 years, the...

A documentary in which retired industrial workers reflect on the promises and anxieties of retirement. Beginning with the Budd Company’s...

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...

To avoid galactic war, the treatment of a frozen planet and its people must be decided.

Corruption, betrayal and vendettas are the focus of this crime drama that stars Julio Diaz as Dado, a man who prefers a quiet life over troubling...

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when...

A group of office employees find themselves in a fight for survival against a ruthless local gang after a long week of work.

Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender...

El Culebra and El Cabesa, a pair of criminals, decide to take a bank at gunpoint, dressed as penitents. The plan is simple: Get in, get the money,...

Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness,...

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.

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...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

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...