Social movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant social movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out social, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with social problems, friendship, society, family relations, revenge, love, corruption, violence, teenager and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in India, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as social: The Thinning: New World Order (2018), Capernaum (2018), Better Days (2019), The Help (2011), The White Tiger (2021), Target Number One (2020), Elite Squad (2007), Macadam Stories (2015), Hemlock Society (2012), Other People (2021).
Best films
New films
| Saltburn (2023) | 7.0 | |
| Label (2023) | 7.3 | |
| Motorvation (2022) | 4.7 | |
| Palm Royale (2024) | 6.8 | |
| Foremost by Night (2023) | 5.6 |
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Blake Redding is trapped in this dark room wanting to protect his love so the only thing he will do is escape like no failed student has done before.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, social, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rebellion, life & death, heroic mission, escape, dystopia, good versus evil, injustice, confined, love and romance, twists and turns, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, escape attempt ...
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122K
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Style:
brutal, disturbing, enigmatic, social, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, friendship, grownups, love and romance, murder, social problems, relationships, romantic relationship, asian, love, chaos, dishonesty ...
Place:
china
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525K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
Style:
social, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, smart ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rise to the top, chauffeur, social injustice, corruption, poverty, master and servant, caste system, class differences, master servant relationship, religion, rags to riches, social differences ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new delhi
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok ...
Style:
social, tense, suspense, brutal, entertaining
Plot:
fight for justice, investigative reporter, prison, cocaine, false accusation, drug traffic, arrest, pursuit, drug, journalism, mafia, addiction ...
Time:
80s
Place:
southeast asia, thailand
Is relevant?
118K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style:
disturbing, intense, serious, realistic, social ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug traffic, favela, squad, drug lord, leader, slum, police, fighting crime, police brutality, law enforcement, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama about several lonely inhabitants of the same council estate, adapted by Benchetrit from his novel.
Style:
social, humorous, absurd, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, apartment building, astronaut, city life, irony, social relations, man in a wheelchair, culture clash, small town, kindness, tenderness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.
Style:
psychological, social, thought provoking, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
mental health, suicide, depression, changing lives, love affair, relationship problems, problem, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship, hopes, empathy ...
Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Warsaw, Poland. Kamil, a street rapper who spends his time going from party to party, begins a love affair with Iwona, a wealthy married woman.
Style:
social
Plot:
love, hip hop, rap, love triangle, female nudity, male female relationship, performer's life, love affair, musician's life, romantic relationship, life, relationship problems ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, History
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true events that happened in Tamileelam to suppress Tamil ethnicity and why Tamil leader Prabhakaran emerged in the Tamil freedom struggle in the Indian Ocean Island nation Srilanka.
Style:
social, realistic, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
freedom, police brutality, biopic, oppression, ethnic conflict, civil unrest, social issues, social injustice, fighting the system, social problems, assassination, activism ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
sri lanka, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A writer at a police station gets trapped in an illegal custody case involving an innocent PHD student. With his guilt and regret looming large, can he save the young man?
Style:
social, inspirational, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, justice, investigation, writers, police, arrest, evidence, police station, police corruption, legal system, deception, fighting the system ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A man who is accused of killing his wife and her sister on the basis of casteism goes on a rampage to kill those who cheat upper-caste women in the pretense of having a romantic relationship.
Style:
social, thrilling, psychological, captivating, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
village, lawyer, women's rights, female protagonist, justice, social injustice, social activism, activist, family problems, villager, problem, fake marriage ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Mannar Mannan, an ordinary villager, decides to call himself the president of the country and starts fighting against the injustices he comes across in his society. What's his agenda?
Style:
social, psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
protest, countryside, political activism, political intrigue, political candidate, political campaign, ambitious man, political activist, ambition, society, political unrest, social activist ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A group of police recruits encounter horrific treatment at their police training school. Will they overcome the hardships or fall victims to the abusive system?
Style:
social, exciting, captivating, serious, intense ...
Plot:
training camp, contest, secret service, competition, tournament, police, abuse of power, weapons, handgun, police officer, brutality, police brutality ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.
Style:
social, exciting, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corporate greed, business, businessman, farming, villager, farmer, countryside, farm, village, rural setting, village life, land grab ...
Is relevant?
299
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
Style:
realistic, psychological, social, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenager, night, journey, mourning, grief, loss, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, wandering, death of sister, death ...
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
33K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.
Style:
anthology, suspense, twisted, social, spooky ...
Plot:
spell, propaganda, bullying, black, supernatural, cover-up, sex crime, occult, student, clergy, home invasion, mental illness ...
Time:
1950s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Style:
social, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
economic crisis, husband wife relationship, husband, social satire, social commentary, socialite, glamour, high society, lifestyle change, family in crisis, marital argument, drastic change of life ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
mexico, mexico city
Is relevant?
223K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, drinking, teacher, midlife crisis, group of friends, alcohol abuse, nordic, experiment, marriage, friendship between men, dancing, drunkenness ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2013, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, eastern europe
Is relevant?
37K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family — led by a well-intentioned but domineering father — as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Style:
social, psychological, sad, touching, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
african american, father son relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, father daughter relationship, interracial romance, black, blaxploitation, passion, passionate love, teen romance ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
florida, missouri
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Go Nan Do, the owner, and creator of an IT research company must hide his existence from the world after his involvement as a hacker in a major case ten years ago. Presumed dead, the only people who knew of his existence are his step-sister and his ...
Style:
dorama, social, romantic drama, light, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, loneliness, love, single woman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, amnesia, love story, memory loss, male female relationship, couple relations, youth, technology ...
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.
Style:
social, bleak, suspense, serious, teen ...
Plot:
death, racism, sex scene, neighbor, erotic dream, african american, chaos and mayhem, children, protest, absent mother, riot, foster child ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, year 1992
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Chile
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with ...
Style:
political, social, political thriller, talky, tense ...
Plot:
politics, coup d'etat, dictatorship, dictator, political intrigue, torture, radical, protest, capitalism, imperialism, journalism, shooting ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, uruguay, france, chile, santiago chile ...
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Masaki Fujiyoshi is a stay-at-home spouse and parent. He has fought long and hard with feelings of being a burden to his loving husband, Hiromu, due to his status as an omega—and the difficulty they faced to achieve this domesticity. When their ...
Style:
yaoi, romantic, anime, social, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, male homosexuality, family relations, gay couple, love, parenthood, couple relations, gay parent, love and romance, homosexual, relationships, romantic relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
2001. Zhenya returns to his provincial hometown after seven years in the military to discover that his ex-girlfriend has become a drug addict, like almost all the young people in the town. At the same time, Zhenya's mother and her husband, a ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, social, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, justice, courage, family relations, society, lifestyle, corruption, soldier, rescue, life is a bitch, good versus evil, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Children from influential families in politics and businesses attend the Hyakkaou Private Academy. There, the hierarchy of the students are classified by a series of games. Students that win the games are on the ruling side and the students who lose ...
Style:
social, suspense, serious, stylized, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gambling, gambler, one last chance, direction and purpose, high school, society, love and romance, social differences, wealth, luxury, academy, fighting the system ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
Is relevant?
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
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