Amanda (2018), A Season in France (2017), Mouchette (1967), Jellyfish (2007), Nazarín (1959), Silverlake Life: The View From Here (1993), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Black (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Marginalization movies.
Storyline: Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, social marginalization, immigration, poverty, family, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade red bean paste convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food.—pagurus
Plot Keywords: drama, heartwarming, social issues, food, humanity, loneliness, healing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At about 11, the stubborn and impulsive Cyril seems on his way to delinquency: he has no mother, his father wants a new life without him, so he's in a foster institution. He searches for his father, wanting him and his bike. Through the intersession of Samantha, a hairdresser Cyril happens upon, he gets his bike back, and she offers to take him into her home on weekends. He remains aloof from her and gets involved with a young crook. Is Cyril intent on driving Samantha away - and what then?
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, father-son relationship, social issues, childhood, belgium, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.
Plot Keywords: violence, psychological thriller, social marginalization, rage, loneliness, despair, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fun-loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, social satire, polish cinema, independent film, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.—Gustaf Molin <gustaf.molin@usa.net>
Plot Keywords: domestic violence, underclass, alcoholism, drug abuse, working class, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Despite admitting that she was scared of him in her never-ending quest to please him, thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt is devastated when her husband Donald is killed in an on the job traffic accident. With few job skills except that as a singer, Alice, along with her precocious eleven year old son Tommy, decides to move from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her home town of Monterrey, California, the only place she has ever felt happy. She plans on getting singing gigs along the way to earn money to get back to Monterrey by the end of the summer and the start of Tommy's school year. Alice's quest for a job at each stop leaves Tommy often to fend for himself, which may make Tommy even more precocious. His behavior is fostered by Alice, as their relationship is often more as trouble-making friends than mother and son. Alice's plans often do not end up as she envisions, especially as she is forced to take a waitressing job at Mel and Ruby's Diner in ...
Plot Keywords: feminism, independent woman, road movie, coming of age, single mother, 1970s, emotional struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, adventure, independent film, usa, horse, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Plot Keywords: autism, coming of age, family, social adaptation, comedy, drama, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having taught at the best institutions in the country aside from other more eclectic jobs, James Leeds, with progressive methods, has just started teaching at a school for the deaf on an island off the New England coast, he assigned primarily to a speech class for the upper grades. At the school, he quickly notices the young cleaning woman, who he learns is twenty-five year old Sarah Norman and who, deaf herself, was once a student there and has been there since the age of five. He can see that she is bright, headstrong and angry, on top of which she doesn't speak, the latter issues a result of a troubled home life, her mother, her only touchstone to family, who she has purposefully not seen in eight years. As he is able to get through to most of his students to feel more and more comfortable in speaking for a more holistic life, Jim, with the reluctant blessing of the school's superintendent Dr. Curtis Franklin, who has always and still considers Sarah a proverbial pain in the ...
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, teacher-student relationship, independent woman, emotional conflict, social marginalization, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos--better known as Madame Satã--was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time. The story begins in 1932, in Rio de Janeiro's bohemian Lapa district, when João Francisco is about to achieve his dream: becoming a stage star. In the sordid yet lively world of Lapa--populated by pimps, prostitutes and other denizens of Rio's underworld--João battles the streets and presides over a surrogate family that includes the charming prostitute Laurita, and her baby daughter whom everyone dotes on; the flamboyant hustler Taboo; João's teenage lover, Renatinho; and Amador, the owner of the Blue Danube club which is their second home. It is at the Blue Danube that street tough João begins to sing, and the mythic drag artiste Madam Satã is born.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, crime, lgbtq+, based on true story, cultural conflict, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".—Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, immigration, multiculturalism, new york, family, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 76 year old Margaret Ross lives in a run-down flat, is all alone in the world. Despite being a bright, she's not totally right in mind. She has delusions, the most common is her neighbours are listening to her through the building's pipes. Following a being hospitalised, Margaret isn't capable of managing herself, lMr. Conrad, who has taken a liking to her, takes it upon himself to ensure she's taken care of. As such, the authorities go looking for her husband, Archie, but as she's been alone - with the whispers - will it bring her happiness?—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, psychological, loneliness, aging, poverty, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from an unidentified illness. Rather than going to hospital, and letting the authorities foster her children, she opens a bank account for them so they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. After she dies, the 2 older siblings decide to hide her body in the basement. Soon they begin to suffer, both the emotional strains and pressures of their situation, as well as the changes which happen during adolescence.—Jagged-11
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, family, taboo, psychological, indie film, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 6-year old Hayat turns up in Hartmut's taxi without a word of German. All attempts to get rid of her fail. So he resigns himself to helping her find her mother. But is he helping her or she helping him? Slowly Hayat changes his outlook on life.—Travelphant
Plot Keywords: drama, family, germany, immigration, cultural conflict, coming of age, mother-daughter relationship ...
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