Social Commentary Movies

An amateur astronomer discovers a strange new star in the sky that leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy to control humanity by exploiting...

A socially conscious monster movie in which zombies symbolize society's disadvantaged and oppressed.

Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus,...

In Liverpool, Sergeant Jack Truman is assigned to work as a juvenile liaison officer to steer troubled youth away from crime. While investigating...

Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and...

Set in one bedroom over six decades, The Bedroom explores the exciting changes to sex and sexuality in Australia.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

Set in a social housing estate in central Sydney, 57 Lawson preserves the disparate voices of the tenants at a time when these communities are...

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far...

Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart, 2 podiums, 1 air-conditioned auditorium... In "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,"...

An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses. The takeaway? Just don't do...

A team of altruistic vigilantes destroy evidence to keep as many people from prison as possible, but when one of their crime scene clean-ups is...

Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to...

A routine elevator ride becomes a battlefield when Maya Uche, a Black activist, and Brett Kiminski, a white conservative, are trapped together...

Devastated by a recent loss, Jayne's perseverance is tested by her nuisance husband as she attempts to complete her jigsaw, but as pieces start...