Social Issues Movies

"Lost and Found" is an inspiring feature documentary film about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.

In the 1980's, Pilar, an ordinary woman, married, about forty years, discovers that one of their three children are addicted to heroin. After an...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

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

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

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

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

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

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 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...

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