Genre "Social Problem Film" Movies
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| 1. American Visa (year: 2006) |
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A Bolivian man with dreams of reuniting with his son and starting a new life in the United States is forced to resort to questionable methods due to h ...
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| 2. And the Band Played On (year: 1993) |
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The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers be ...
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| 3. Code Unknown (year: 2000) |
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German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance wi ...
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| 4. Goodbye Bafana (year: 2007) |
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Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandel ...
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| 5. Heroes (year: 1977) |
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| 6. Jannat (year: 2008) |
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Director Kunal Deshmukh's feature Jannat functions on two levels; on one (which references the titles literal translation as "Paradise," it ...
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| 7. Naked (year: 1993) |
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A scathing look at Britain in the post-Thatcher era, Mike Leigh's Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, an unemployed layabout with a philosophical ben ...
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| 8. Nil by Mouth (year: 1997) |
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A working class British family struggles with their demons — sometimes violently — in this intensely emotional drama that marked t ...
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| 9. Paradise Now (year: 2005) |
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Said (Kais Nashef) is a young Palestinian living in Nablus, and working as a mechanic. He gets his friend Khaled (Ali Suliman) a job, but the hot-temp ...
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| 10. Runaway Jury (year: 2003) |
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Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shoot ...
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| 11. Serpico (year: 1973) |
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Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop ag ...
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| 12. Still Life (year: 2006) |
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Jia Zhang Ke's haunting minimalist drama Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren) takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro ...
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| 13. Storm Warning (year: 1950) |
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| 14. The Grapes of Wrath (year: 1940) |
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director Jo ...
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| 15. The Lost Weekend (year: 1945) |
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer whose lust for booze cons ...
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| 16. The Navigators (year: 2001) |
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| 17. Trade (year: 2007) |
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After his 13-year-old sister is abducted by sex-traffickers, a determined Mexican teen travels from the barrios of Mexico City to a run-down stash hou ...
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| 18. Walkout (year: 2006) |
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Made for cable, Walkout is the true story of a little-known but profoundly significant moment in the history of the Latino community in East Los Angel ...
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| 19. Where the Day Takes You (year: 1992) |
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Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collec ...
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