Topic: Social Drama

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Henry Bergman · Chester Conklin

Plot Chaplin is a factory worker in this hectic age - a minor cog in the grinding wheels of industry. His job -mechanically tightening bolts on a moving belt. The monotony...

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot Frederick Wiseman examines a wide diversity of welfare-related situations during the film’s 167 minutes. Areas covered include unemployment, housing, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, concerns of the elderly, child abuse,...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin

Plot When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...

Direction Tony Kaye

Cast Edward Norton · Edward Furlong · Fairuza Balk · Stacy Keach

Plot Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of...

Direction Mireia Sallarès

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Alfredo Landa · Francisco Rabal · Juan Diego · Terele Pávez

Plot In the 60s, somewhere in the Spanish countryside, Paco and his wife Régula are poor. Their lives are resignation, sacrifice and obedience as they work for a very wealthy landowner....

Direction Bruno Stagnaro

Cast Rodrigo de la Serna · Diego Alonso Gómez · Ariel Staltari · Franco Tirri

Plot TV miniseries (2000). 11 episodes. Four young man with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being prosecuted by...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Plot TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man,...

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Lee Seon-gyun · Jang Hye-jin · Cho Yeo-jeong

Plot A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family...

Direction Jorge Furtado

Plot Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help...

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Pina Pellicer · Enrique Lucero · Mario Alberto Rodríguez

Plot Macario is a poor, hungry peasant, with a wife and several children, who sells wood in the town. Fed up with a life full of hardships, Macario longs for a...

Direction Bahman Ghobadi

Cast Avaz Latif · Soran Ebrahim · Hirsh Feyssal · Saddam Hossein Feysal

Plot 2004: San Sebastian International Film Festival: Winner Golden Shell. In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately seek for a satellite dish...

Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Emilio Echevarría · Gael García Bernal · Goya Toledo · Alvaro Guerrero

Plot Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Nadine Nortier · Jean-Claude Guilbert · Jean Vimenet · Marie Cardinal

Plot Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Maksim Shtraukh · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov · Ivan Klyukvin

Plot In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Walter Miller · Sylvia Sidney · William Collier Jr. · Estelle Taylor

Plot Based on the pullitzer prize winning broadway play, Street scene is a study in the daily lives of people...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Yûya Yagira · Ayu Kitaura · Hiei Kimura · Momoko Shimizu

Plot In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Direction Walter Salles

Cast Fernanda Montenegro · Vinicius de Oliveira · Marilia Pêra · Soia Lira

Plot Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a...