Social Realism Movies

A schoolteacher's reputation is at risk when a video of her speaking up against injustice goes viral on the internet and is misinterpreted.

130k portrays the cold reality of exclusion through the story of an immigrant family.

When a young couple involved in care proceedings travel across the country to collect a motorbike, their resolve to get their baby back is tested, as...

Steelworker Nangong Cheng is dying from an infected wound when he encounters Zhuang, a stranger with a similar affliction seeking vengeance for his...

In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to...

Michel wants to go home.

Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what...

A day in the lives of a Hamburger couple Jan and Renate. A few days ago they moved to Wilhelmsburg. There they have to build a child's room, but they...

Through a haze of smoke, coke, and booze; possible futures, pasts, and presents coalesce chaos inside the mind of a man drifting directionless...

In the form of a posthumous letter to Storck, using clippings from the original 'Borinage' film, the director paints a personal picture about a...

Based on real stories, using both actors and non-actors, and filmed on location in Dublin, A Week in the Life of Martin Cluxton (1971) is a rare...

A wandering homeless man seizes an opportunity.

The man works his farm. He is caked in mud and dirt and apart from the faint noise of his cattle all is silent. He shovels just as he has done every...

In the middle of a Texas summer, plans for a babysitter fall through and six-year-old Caroline is left in charge of her two younger siblings.

Irpinia follows the journey of young West Indian dreamer Dudley as he makes his way to England in the 1960s. At 24 years old, Dudley boarded a ship...

Madu seeks a mysterious woman who's missing but known to everyone. A storm approaches and creates the tense atmosphere where finding Her, is urgent....

A day in the life of photo model Liv. But it's no ordinary day. She breaks up with her fiance, father and her own empty life as a model, and has to...

When Naomi refuses to be exploited in her oppressive cleaning job, she must convince her colleagues to stand up and demand their right to be treated...