Social Commentary Movies

Awaiting trial for murder, a father’s life falls apart as his connection to the man who attacked his family is revealed.

A married couple who own a Madura small shop that they say will only close on apocalypse day want to be intimate again. But the husband doesn't want...

A team of altruistic vigilantes destroy evidence to keep as many people from prison as possible, but when one of their crime scene clean-ups is...

A documentary about the dockworkers in Gothenburg, and the future of the shipping industry in the city.

A film written and directed by Jeremy Deller which explores the social history of the UK between 1985 and 1993 through the lens of acid house and...

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of...

On a Saturday night in the "City of Love", two sworn enemies are united in their hatred for someone they despise even more than each other: a gay man.

Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron...

A routine elevator ride becomes a battlefield when Maya Uche, a Black activist, and Brett Kiminski, a white conservative, are trapped together...

Set against the backdrop of the Milburn Review, teenagers in South Wales share their experience of living in 2026 and the barriers they face. The...

A date gone awry, two people are not who they claim when secrets are revealed.

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence,...

A dreamy boy in a distant country saves a fish beached on the shore. When he lets it loose in a pool of water, the fish turns into a beautiful...

Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agenda", unveils his new work, Kymatica!. Kymatica...

Another early Aleksandar Petrovic documentary, done for Dunav film in 1964. It is made as a kind of a road movie through socialist Yugoslavia,...

Initially embarking on an unplanned personal filmmaking project, Ilias Boukhemoucha finds himself drawn to the overlooked corners and marginalized...

Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart, 2 podiums, 1 air-conditioned auditorium... In "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,"...

In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran...

In these interviews, Dennis McKenna, Alex Grey, Rick Strassman, and other champions of psychedelics share their views on the value of psychedelic...