The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), Mamma Roma (1962), The Devil's Miner (2005), The Measure of a Man (2015), The Wide Blue Road (1956), Barbary Coast (1975), Character (1997), A Short Film About Killing (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Injustice movies.
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: 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: Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, survival, social issues, family, traditional culture, exploitation ...
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 provincial fisherman (Yves Montand) angers other villagers by using dynamite illegally to expedite his catch.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, italian cinema, poverty, survival, family, sea ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A special agent tracks criminals in 1870s San Francisco.
Plot Keywords: adventure, western, drama, historical, crime, romance, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young lawyer Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huêt) is the chief suspect in the murder of the cold-hearted bailiff Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir). The two have long been rivals, waging personal battles through the courts, and Katadreuffe was observed leaving the scene of the crime. Giving his testimony to police, Katadreuffe effectively tells his life story, in which his ambition for success in the legal world was driven by a hatred of his biological father -- who was, secretly, Dreverhaven.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, crime, thriller, black comedy, independent film, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young lawyer (Krzysztof Globisz) in Warsaw represents a drifter (Mirosław Baka) who killed a malicious cabdriver (Jan Tesarz).
Plot Keywords: crime, moral dilemma, violence, social critique, polish cinema, law, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ambitious young Jamaican is forced into a life of crime after arriving in Kingston to launch a music career.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, music, drugs, gangster, rebellion, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Plot Keywords: social realism, poverty, family breakdown, street life, legal battle, struggle for survival, humanitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hubert Sauper's Oscar-nominated documentary about the Nile perch, a species introduced into Lake Victoria as an experiment in the sixties. Since then, the fish has not only wiped out the lake's other marine life, but also has a tendency to consume its own young. Unfortunately, the Nile perch is also the region's most profitable export. Everyone with a stake in the market downplays the ecological disaster.
Plot Keywords: documentary, globalization, africa, poverty, social injustice, capitalism, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After serving time for killing a man in a hit-and-run car accident, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) is released with no money and nowhere to go. His family has abandoned him. While trying to make amends, he meets Han Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), his victim's adult daughter. She is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy and all but abandoned in a cheap apartment by her callous family. Gong-ju's innate tenderness appeals to the uncontrollably impulsive Jong-du, and the pair begin an improbable relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, korean cinema, social outcasts, disability, forbidden love, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
Plot Keywords: historical, war, italy, biographical, political, exile, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 60-year-old man in Chad, resentful of his lot in life, can only contribute his son's services to the war effort.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, war, father-son relationship, human nature, africa, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Christian boy grows up among Jews in Israel and, as an adult, must confront his past.
Plot Keywords: war, jewish, immigration, identity, family, survival, racism ...
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