Social Issues Movies

​A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The happy household is suddenly thrown...

Four adults are detained in their apartments with only each other and a computer for online company. They each come from a different class with...

With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the...

Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social...

The final case for American healthcare to be free and accessible to all—through a single-payer system. Using an all-star lineup of...

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have always found something to be offended by, their...

From schools and offices to hospitals and streets, cleaners are working everywhere, tirelessly and modestly. They work hard and keep society running....

An unexpected guest interrupts a couple's last day together, transforming their peaceful farewell.

A revolutionary is sentenced to death for his anti-national activities. And so begins a battle of wits between the prison officer and his comrades,...

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi....

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges.

"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers...