The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), The Unloved (2009), Rosie (2018), Z (1969), A Regular Woman (2019), The War Game (1966), Drunken Angel (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Criticism movies.
Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jobless and desperate, World War I veteran Robert Eliot Burns (Val Kilmer) is arrested for theft and sentenced to work on a prison chain gang. Eager to get away from brutal Warden Hardy (Charles Durning), Burns busts out of jail. Suddenly free, he woos foxy stranger Emily Del Pino Pacheco (Sonia Braga). Soon, though, the romance sours, and, without cover from Emily, Burns is left with nowhere to hide. To his dismay, he might just find himself making a return journey to Hardy's chain gang.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, crime, history, prison, true story, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucy is 11-years-old and lives with her father. One day, not for the first time, he beats her. The next time she returns to school, Lucy asks to see her social worker Jackie. Lucy is known to social services and has been in foster care before, but none of her foster parents have any placements available. Jackie takes her to a children's home, Crop Row, where she is left with nothing except the school uniform she is wearing.
Plot Keywords: drama, british, social issues, children, family, loneliness, abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman, her husband and their four children find themselves homeless after their landlord sells their house. Over the next 36 hours, the couple desperately search for a place to live while trying to shield the kids from the reality of the situation.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, homelessness, motherhood, social issues, poverty, resilience ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proves a leftist's (Yves Montand) hit-and-run death was a Fascist plot.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, government corruption, judicial injustice, investigative journalist, based on true events, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on a true story, female, social issues, domestic violence, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Peter Watkins envisions the physical devastation and struggle for survival following a nuclear attack on Great Britain.
Plot Keywords: war, nuclear war, documentary, mockumentary, british, cold war, anti-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Plot Keywords: gangster, alcoholism, doctor, black market, moral dilemma, social criticism, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: G.W. Pabst's account of a young woman's downfall emphasizes years of her catering to her sexual appetite.
Plot Keywords: silent film, psychological drama, moral decay, sexual liberation, tragedy, social criticism, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the age of 51, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma.
Plot Keywords: drama, social issues, unemployment, family, moral dilemma, french film, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager struggles to transcend the limitations of his upper middle-class life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social class, coming of age, teenager, class conflict, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young women grow up together in an orphanage. One finds refuge in a Romanian convent and the other moves to Germany to start a new life.
Plot Keywords: religion, exorcism, crisis of faith, homosexuality, social exclusion, psychological torment, patriarchy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, bureaucracy, collectivism, absurdity, political allegory, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eccentric performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson directs this documentary about her multimedia theatrical presentation, which was filmed live at the Park Theatre in New Jersey. Her offbeat performance is a mixture of song, poetry, film and whimsy and includes guest performances by author William S. Burroughs and Adrian Belew on guitar. The show includes the songs "Excellent Birds," "Smoke Rings," "Language Is a Virus" and "Talk Normal."
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, veterans, anti-war, 1980s, drama, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank actually aided his Nazi captors, and he closely guards this secret. Frank's shameful past comes back to visit him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) emerges, intent on making the turncoat pay for his betrayal. As Joe closes in on Frank, the traitor goes into hiding, abandoning his wife, Edith (Janet Leigh), who has no clue about her husband's wartime transgressions.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, drama, mystery, revenge, moral dilemma ...
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