Rapt (2009), On the Bowery (1956), The Rules of the Game (1939), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), The Long Good Friday (1980), The Blue Angel (1930), The Blue Angel (1930), Foxtrot (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Critique movies.
Storyline: Philandering industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) is kidnapped, with his ransom set at 50 million euros. After his finger is chopped off to prove the abductors' seriousness, his wife, Francoise (Anne Consigny), meets with the board of directors to discuss how to raise the money quickly -- but evidence of Stanislas' adultery and gambling make the company reluctant to pay. As rumors spread that Stanislas staged the kidnapping to take care of his debts, public sentiment turns against him.
Plot Keywords: kidnapping, crime, drama, thriller, french film, based on true events, wealthy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Lionel Rogosin turns his camera on the homeless "bums" who frequent New York City's Bowery area.
Plot Keywords: documentary, new york, alcoholism, social realism, black and white, independent film, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
Plot Keywords: french film, classic film, satirical comedy, high society, social critique, ensemble cast, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, noir, detective, serial killer, police, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Cockney crime czar (Bob Hoskins) and his mistress (Helen Mirren) answer a threat on the eve of his big deal with a U.S. mobster (Eddie Constantine).
Plot Keywords: gangster, london, crime, violence, thriller, betrayal, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prim educator Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is driven mad with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry his beloved. However, married life with a woman whose job is to make men desire her proves more difficult than Rath imagined.
Plot Keywords: german cinema, classic film, film noir, drama, tragedy, downfall, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prim educator Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is driven mad with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry his beloved. However, married life with a woman whose job is to make men desire her proves more difficult than Rath imagined.
Plot Keywords: classic film, german cinema, black and white, drama, tragedy, decadence, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A knock on the door leads to unfathomable grief as a man and his wife learn that their son died in the line of duty as a soldier.
Plot Keywords: war, family, tragedy, military, loss, grief, absurdity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A prostitute (Anna Magnani) tries to go straight and help her son (Ettore Garofalo), but the past and corruption catch up with them.
Plot Keywords: social critique, mother-son relationship, moral dilemma, social injustice, struggle for survival, exploration of humanity, harsh reality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) directs the patients of Charenton mental hospital in a play about the life of Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson).
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, psychological, political, revolution, mental illness, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One morning, spirited Rana (Clara Khoury), a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem, receives a startling note from her father, Abu Siad (Zuher Fahoum) : She can either get married or emigrate with him to Egypt later that afternoon. Rana dashes off to find her boyfriend, Khalil (Khalifa Natour), but must negotiate menacing Israeli checkpoints and strict Islamic law as she races across the West Bank. She begins to wonder if she really wants to stay after all.
Plot Keywords: female director, independent film, marriage, social pressure, family, realism, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Giant media conglomerates are increasingly reluctant to investigate or criticize government policies, particularly on defense, security and intelligence issues. They are ceding responsibility for holding governments and corporations accountable to the independent journalists and filmmakers who risk their careers, their freedom and their lives in war zones to expose the truth. With government deception rampant, independent voices are crucially important.
Plot Keywords: documentary, press freedom, investigative journalism, government corruption, democracy, social justice, historical truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective Peter Hunter returns to Yorkshire to investigate the town's high murder rate. The local police have done little to find the killer, and he soon realizes corrupt police officers are doing everything they can to stop his progress.
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, thriller, drama, dark, british, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Indian woman (Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes the breadwinner when her husband (Anil Chatterjee) loses his banking job.
Plot Keywords: indian cinema, social realism, family drama, female protagonist, urban life, middle class, gender roles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One (Jack Lemmon) of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy (George C. Scott) from the slums who is accused of killing his father.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, murder case, prejudice, class conflict, moral dilemma, social critique, black and white film ...
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