The Laramie Project (2002), Blood Stripe (2016), Raw Deal: A Question of Consent (2001), Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016), American History X (1998), Koyaanisqatsi (1982), I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Crash (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best American Society movies.
Storyline: Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in self-defence. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. When a video of the incident goes viral, the unwitting outlaws soon become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people all across the country—stmc-25959
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, crime, fugitive, race, social issues, police brutality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice.—SHOWTIME
Plot Keywords: documentary, police brutality, racial discrimination, judicial injustice, chicago, true story, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed.—Azure_Girl
Plot Keywords: war, family, vietnam war, trauma, veteran, father-son relationship, psychological struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors.
Plot Keywords: political satire, mockumentary, american politics, corruption, media manipulation, social commentary, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary explores the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on civil rights through present day.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, history, social justice, racial equality, american history, leadership ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film depicts a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bundles of money. His day is filled with unusual episodes as he picks up a hitchhiker/prostitute, arranges for his company's warehouse to burn down so he can collect the insurance-money, he hires strippers for his buddies and gets engaged in an animal rights campaign, a fashion show and experiences a rather uncomfortable flashback to the war.—Kristian Krokfoss <krokus@online.no>
Plot Keywords: drama, moral dilemma, midlife crisis, corporate corruption, psychological stress, american dream, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna, a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker named Killer, an attractive brain-damaged football player. It is through Killer that a more disturbing question is posed to Natalie than that of domestic responsibility. How deeply are we wedded to chance meetings and are we responsible for the crimes that we witness?—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, female protagonist, marital crisis, escapism, self-discovery, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an alternate version of Oakland, Cassius Green gets a telemarketing job and finds the commission paid job a dispiriting struggle as a black man selling to predominately white people over the phone. That changes when a veteran advises him to use his "white voice," and the attitude behind it to make himself more appealing to customers. With a bizarrely high-pitched accent, Cassius becomes a success even as his colleagues form a union to improve their miserable jobs. Regardless, Cassius finds himself promoted a "Power Caller" selling the most morally abhorrent but lucrative products and services as his connection to his girlfriend and colleagues fades away. However, Cassius' conscience arises anew as he finds himself in the midst of his boss' bizarre world of condescending bigoted decadence and his sinister plans to create the perfect subservient work force with Cassius' help.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, satire, social commentary, surreal, critique of capitalism, labor rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. She waged a battle to be recognized and her opinions made her readers hate or love her. Her distinctive voice pioneered the art form, and was largely a result of stubborn determination, huge confidence, and a deep love of the arts. The movie also shows 20th-century movies through Pauline's eye, and shows Pauline's own life through moments of other movies. The filmmakers had complete access to the subject -- through Gina James, Pauline's only child and the executor of her estate; friends and colleagues; and Pauline's personal archives. With over 30 new interviews, including David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Camille Paglia, Molly Haskell, Alec Baldwin Greil Marcus, Paul Schrader, John Guare and Joe Morgenstern. Sarah Jessica Parker voices Pauline through her writing and letters.
Plot Keywords: documentary, racial issues, social justice, american society, african american, police brutality, racial discrimination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/ troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, social satire, anthology, moral dilemma, sexual themes, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990's: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she'd rather go and search for the grandmother she's never met, and live with her. "On the way to grandma's house," (actually a trailer park) Vanessa's car breaks down, and she's picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa's trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she's saying, she realizes that he's "The I-5 Killer," from the news. She tries to get out of his truck, but the inside door handle has been removed...
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, black comedy, road movie, violence, underclass, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological thriller, race, identity, family, education, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eccentric British poet Stevie Smith (Glenda Jackson) has emotional and relationship troubles while living with her maiden aunt.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, crime, social issues, true story, human nature, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned and plotted the assassination based on the data and facts of the case. It posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra-conservative politicians, unscrupulously greedy business interests, and free-lance assassins become increasingly alarmed at President Kennedy's policies, including his views on race relations, winding down the Vietnam War, and ending the oil depletion allowance. They decide to terminate him through an "executive action" utilizing three teams of well-trained snipers during JFK's visit to Dallas and place the blame on supposed CIA operative Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: political thriller, conspiracy, american politics, cold war, power struggle, covert operation, government corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, coming of age, social satire, moral dilemma, female perspective, family dynamics ...
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