The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), On the Bowery (1956), Mamma Roma (1962), The Measure of a Man (2015), Mahanagar (1963), Capernaum (2018), L'économie du couple (2016), The Exiles (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Realism movies.
Storyline: Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia. Vertov celebrates the modernity of the city, with its vast buildings, dense population and bustling industries. While there are no titles or narration, Vertov still naturally conveys the marvels of the modern city.
Plot Keywords: silent film, documentary, avant-garde, 1920s, black and white, visual poetry, everyday life ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Plot Keywords: marriage, divorce, family conflict, emotional turmoil, middle class, modern relationships, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary style, los angeles, urban life, social realism, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Senegalese businessman (Thierno Leye) needs a cure for impotence after grandly acquiring a third wife.
Plot Keywords: political satire, social critique, corruption, class conflict, tradition vs modernity, patriarchy, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Claire is a tightly wound midwife who forms an unlikely friendship with Béatrice, her late father's free-spirited mistress. Though polar opposites, the two women come to rely on each other after Béatrice reveals that she has brain cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, female lead, midlife crisis, family relationships, reconciliation, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.
Plot Keywords: working class, exploitation, poverty, protest, oppression, social injustice, class struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
Plot Keywords: children, family, poverty, siblings, family bond, innocence, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...
Plot Keywords: family drama, social realism, immigration, brotherhood, poverty, class conflict, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hell-bent on revenge, the cocky reform-school runaway, El Jaibo, returns to his old neighbourhood in post-World-War-II Mexico City's poor and squalid slums, to reunite with his faithful gang of juvenile delinquents and street urchins. However, as the dangerous ringleader lives and breathes retribution, his destructive obsession to find the informant who supposedly sent him to jail will intricately interweave his bitter fate with that of Pedro, his weak and unwitting accessory, in a despicable act of pure evil. In the end, are humans inherently good or bad--and above all--is immorality contingent with society?
Plot Keywords: social realism, poverty, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, coming of age, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Germany, Hans Beckert is an unknown killer of girls. He whistles Edvard Grieg's 'In The Hall of the Mountain King', from the 'Peer Gynt' Suite I Op. 46 while attracting the little girls for death. The police force pressed by the Minister give its best effort trying unsuccessfully to arrest the serial killer. The organized crime has great losses due to the intense search and siege of the police and decides to chase the murderer, with the support of the beggars association. They catch Hans and briefly judge him.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, film noir, german cinema, classic, serial killer ...
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