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Social drama in cinema

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The Story of Souleymane
V.O.: L'Histoire de Souleymane
Fr. 2024. Drama by Boris Lojkine with Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Emmanuel Yovanie. While delivering meals on his bicycle in the streets of Paris, a young African refugee is rehearsing the story he will tell in two days' time to obtain political asylum.
Runtime: 93 min.
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Hard Truths
G.-B. 2024. Dramatic comedy by Mike Leigh with Michele Austin, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Tuwaine Barrett. Always angry and quick to enter into conflict with others, a matriarch makes life miserable for her husband and adult children.
Runtime: 97 min.
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Temporaries
V.O.: Richelieu
Can. 2023. Social drama by Pier-Philippe Chevigny with Ariane Castellanos, Marc-André Grondin, Nelson Coronado. In a food processing plant, a Spanish-Quebec translator defends Guatemalan workers exploited by their boss.
Runtime: 90 min.
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Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World
V.O.: Nu Aștepta Prea Mult de la Sfârșitul Lumii
Roum. 2023. Satire by Radu Jude with Ilinca Manolache, Dorina Lazar, Ovidiu Pîrsan. A production assistant drives around Bucharest, meeting victims of industrial accidents for a film commissioned by an Austrian company.
Runtime: 163 min.
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R.M.N.
Roum. 2022. Social drama by Cristian Mungiu with Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu. The hiring of three Sri Lankan workers by a factory in a Romanian village provokes a revolt.
Runtime: 125 min.
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BPM - Beats Per Minute
V.O.: 120 Battements par minute
Fr. 2017. Social drama by Robin Campillo with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel. In 1990, a 26-year-old gay man joins the Paris branch of the AIDS movement ACT UP, where he falls in love with one of the group’s most radical members.
Runtime: 140 min.
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I, Daniel Blake
G.-B. 2016. Social drama by Ken Loach with Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan. While struggling to get his sick pay from social services, a 59-year-old labourer helps a young single mother who is looking for work.
Runtime: 101 min.
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Dheepan
Fr. 2015. Social drama by Jacques Audiard with Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby. A Sri Lankan soldier flees his country with a woman and an orphan and settles in France in a poor suburb plagued by drug trafficking.
Runtime: 115 min.
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Two Days One Night
V.O.: Deux Jours, une nuit
Bel. 2014. Drama by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne with Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne. Supported by her husband, an employee on sick leave has one weekend to convince her co-workers to waive their bonuses so she can keep her job.
Runtime: 91 min.
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Fish Tank
G.-B. 2009. Drama by Andrea Arnold with Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing. In a working-class English suburb, a rebellious teenager is tamed by her mother's new lover.
Runtime: 123 min.
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White Material
Fr. 2009. Drama by Claire Denis with Isabelle Huppert, Isaach de Bankolé, Christophe Lambert. In a black African country, the French owner of a coffee plantation resists the onslaught of anti-colonial revolutionary forces.
Runtime: 102 min.
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Still Life
V.O.: Sanxia Haoren
Chin. 2006. Social drama by Jia Zhang-ke with Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin. A mine worker and a nurse try to find their respective spouses in a town about to be flooded by the waters of a huge dam.
Runtime: 108 min.
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Vera Drake
G.-B. 2004. Social drama by Mike Leigh with Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight. In 1950, in a working-class area of London, a devoted mother is arrested for performing illegal abortions.
Runtime: 125 min.
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Dirty Pretty Things
G.-B. 2002. Drama by Stephen Frears with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez. In London, two illegal immigrants working in a hotel discover that their boss is running a black market of human organs.
Runtime: 97 min.
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Dancer in the Dark
Dan. 2000. Musical drama by Lars von Trier with Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse. A nearly blind worker working hard to pay for her son's operation is robbed of all her savings.
Runtime: 139 min.
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Rosetta
Bel. 1999. Social drama by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne with Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux. The teenage daughter of an irresponsible alcoholic will do anything to get a job and a normal life.
Runtime: 95 min.
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Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain
V.O.: Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur
Can. 1997. Drama by Robert Morin with Claude, Alain, Patrick.
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La Promesse
Bel. 1996. Social drama by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne with Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo.
Runtime: 94 min.
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October
V.O.: Octobre
Can. 1994. Social drama by Pierre Falardeau with Luc Picard, Hugo Dubé, Pierre Rivard.
Runtime: 97 min.
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Babylon
G.-B. 1980. Social drama by Franco Rosso with Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Trevor Laird. In London, a young black mechanic and member of a reggae band reacts violently to the prevailing racism.
Runtime: 95 min.
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Kes
G.-B. 1969. Psychological drama by Ken Loach with David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland. A young boy spends his free time raising a hawk that he found in a field.
Runtime: 113 min.
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The Chase
U.S. 1965. Social drama by Arthur Penn with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford. The sheriff of a small Texas town tries to save a prison escapee from lynching.
Runtime: 133 min.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
G.-B. 1961. Psychological drama by Karel Reisz with Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts. The love affairs of a young English worker.
Runtime: 85 min.
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The Grapes of Wrath
U.S. 1940. Social drama by John Ford with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine.
Runtime: 138 min.
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The Rules of the Game
V.O.: La Règle du jeu
Fr. 1939. Mores comedy by Jean Renoir with Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain.
Runtime: 106 min.
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Hate
V.O.: La Haine
Fr. 1995. Social drama by Mathieu Kassovitz with Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui.
Runtime: 98 min.
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Orders
V.O.: Les Ordres
Can. 1974. Social drama by Michel Brault with Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost. Portrayal of the fate of five people who were victims of the War Measures Act
Runtime: 112 min.
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The Bicycle Thief
V.O.: Ladri di biciclette
It. 1948. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carrel. A family man has his bicycle stolen, which he needs for work.
Runtime: 89 min.
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City of God
V.O.: Cidade de Deus
Br. 2002. Social drama by Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund with Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele. The distinct paths of two young people who grew up in the violent hell of a favela in Rio.
Runtime: 130 min.
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Umberto D.
It. 1951. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari. An old retiree is struggling with life's difficulties.
Runtime: 90 min.
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