Social Commentary Movies

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a...

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

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely man with leprosy and a mentally...

Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that...

Elliott Nelson, a cop impersonator with good intentions, makes his first traffic stop.

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,...

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination...

Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities....

Disillusioned English banker's wife Mary meets troubled Italian immigrant Bruno, with whom she is captivated by and they set off on a voyage on which...

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

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...

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...

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

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On features previously banned songs by the BBC including "Lola" by the Kinks, "Jackie" by Scott Walker...