Social Issues Movies

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

A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

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

Why did the series "In Therapy" on ARTE break audience records? Does it reflect the truth of psychoanalysis? From personal quests to collective...

Five years apart, they reunite as lovers, but when family-demands force Xiao Chen to marry, Lu Feng feels betrayed—and vows revenge.

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US...

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

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

Harsha, a multi-millionaire guy who has everything but there is something else he's looking for and in the process he adopts a complete village...

Quique el Cuajo, a hustler with half a body affected by cerebral palsy, joins forces with his friend Adolfo, a young mulatto, to create a music...

Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual...

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in...

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

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national...

Finley and his wife rely on the microchips in their neck to live their lives but they can never kiss again. When Finley openly voices criticism of...

The phrase "Born Sexy Yesterday" is derived from the 1950 film "Born Yesterday." However beneath this superficial portrayal of some women lies a more...