Social Commentary Movies

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back...

"Fitting In" is a symbolic social-impact film that draws a parallel between fitting into shoes and fitting into society, and, in doing so, it...

Two Native Americans struggle to make the transition from their home reservation to the city life, but soon find a solution in an advertised remedy...

On a Saturday night in the "City of Love", two sworn enemies are united in their hatred for someone they despise even more than each other: a gay man.

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of...

A film written and directed by Jeremy Deller which explores the social history of the UK between 1985 and 1993 through the lens of acid house and...

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

The very near future. The interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Nano sensors and transmitters find and attach to neurons, this is...

Badi Bahen aka President is a 1937 Hindi social romantic drama film (the Bengali version was called Didi and starred several different actors). The...

As per tradition, young man shaves his head after death, but whose death is he mourning about?

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...

A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive,...

A lesbian couple experiences microaggressions at a workshop upstate. Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New...

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed...

Horror Short: A fashion photographer sees a nightmarish aberration in the glare of his camera flash.

The lives of vastly separate people collide in interweaving stories of liberty, identity, tolerance, responsibility and class.

Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with...

Dance film made in Arica with the Tobas Internacional Gigantes Alados group.

In an alternate 2019, people have lost the ability to talk to each other. James (Matthew Ruf) is in search for deeper connections within the...