Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998), Andrei Rublev (1969), Chhoti Si Baat (1975), Water (2005), Baadasssss! (2003), Eboli (1979), I've Loved You So Long (2008), Citizen X (1995) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social movies.
Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, cultural revolution, youth, coming of age, tragedy, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, art, religious, medieval, russian, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mild-mannered accountant, Arun Pradeep (Amol Palekar) is infatuated with pretty young Prabha Narayan (Vidya Sinha), but his withdrawn nature prevents him from asserting himself. When the slick Nagesh Shastri (Asrani) sets his sights on Prabha, Arun realizes that he has to make a move soon or risk losing her. In order to get a crash course in romance, he enlists the help of love expert Col. Julius Nagendranath Wilfred Singh (Ashok Kumar) and attempts to win the girl of his dreams.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, musical, bollywood, indian cinema, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just as Mahatma Gandhi's tenets begin to sweep through India, an 8-year-old (Sarala) must go to live in an ashram with other Hindu widows.
Plot Keywords: drama, history, social, india, women, widow, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, independent film, cultural, social, art ...
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: After serving a lengthy prison sentence, a woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister (Elsa Zylberstein).
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, french film, sisters, prison, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Russian police-detective Viktor Burakov (Stephen Rea) spends eight years tracking serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, true story, serial killer, soviet union, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman (Gary Sinise) becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Plot Keywords: drama, science fiction, psychological, suspense, human nature, social, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A reformed gang leader returns to Harlem and takes a job delivering meals. When he meets and bonds with an older woman, the two of them discover there is hope and joy in their surroundings.
Plot Keywords: drama, social, new york, african american, community, redemption, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Latin American country where the government has outlawed public religious displays, the last priest (Henry Fonda) in a village seeks refuge in a church, disguised as a peasant. Discovered by an Indian woman, Maria (Dolores del Río), the priest agrees to baptize her children and other poor people in the village. The priest's efforts to escape the military police are constantly upset by the desperate religious demands of the local people, and a beggar intent on turning him in.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, film noir, fugitive, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Independent American reporter Michael Ruppert is the subject of this documentary, which looks at how the ex-police officer managed to predict the massive Wall Street crash of 2008 years before it happened. The film delves into what led Ruppert to foresee the financial crisis, as well as his grim worldview, which envisions more economic disasters. The production also sheds light on Ruppert's own personal woes, which appear to be closely linked to his status as the bearer of bad news.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, social, crisis, energy, environment, future ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American judge, Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him. The Cold War is heating up and no one wants any more trials as Germany, and Allied governments, want to forget the past. But is that the right thing to do is the question that the tribunal must decide.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: historical, legal, war, courtroom, nazi, trial, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A banker discovers that his wife is seeing a male escort and gains a unique perspective on his life.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, urban, workplace, slice of life, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. The film uses the contrast between the highly developed world of NASA, which has been at the forefront of advances in space research, and this world back home in India, which is at the crossroads of development. Mohan's simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called "home".
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social, india, patriotic, return, rural ...
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