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e'Lollipop

Rated: 0 | 146 Views Released Year: 1976

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of South Africa's horrifying Apartheid era, filmmaker Ashley Lazarus's heartwarming tale centers on the enduring friendship between Tsepo (Muntu Ndebele) and Jannie (Norman Knox). Following the tragic death of his parents, Jannie is sent to a village mission, where he and Tsepo strike up an unexpected relationship that exemplifies the innocence of childhood and the transcendence of true friendship.
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I Passed for White

Rated: 0 | 104 Views Released Year: 1960

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Seeking a better life for herself, Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde), a light-skinned black woman, leaves her family and attempts to pass herself off as white, going to great lengths to hide her true identity from everyone -- including her white husband. But the constant pressure of having to deceive her friends and family takes its toll on Bernice, who finally realizes that she'll not find true happiness while living a lie.
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I Want to Live!

Rated: 0 | 155 Views Released Year: 1958

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) -- party girl and prevaricator -- works as a shill, enticing naive men into rigged card games. She tries to reform, but when her new life crumbles, she falls back on her old ways. Soon Barbara and her partners in crime find themselves charged with murder and facing the death penalty. As the wheels of justice spin, Barbara desperately asserts her innocence. Hayward reaped an Oscar for her electrifying portrayal.
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John Q

Rated: 0 | 145 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: In director Nick Cassavetes's gripping social drama, blue-collar worker John Q. (Denzel Washington) finds that his meager insurance won't cover his son's emergency heart transplant. Desperate, he holds a hospital's emergency room hostage until doctors agree to perform the surgery. Meanwhile, gung ho police chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta) and hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) try to diffuse the situation amid a media frenzy.
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F.I.S.T.

Rated: 0 | 127 Views Released Year: 1978

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Jimmy Kovak (Sylvester Stallone) is a hardworking 1930s factory employee pursuing the American Dream. But when factory conditions push him too far, he pushes back. As he unionizes his co-workers, he's faced with a grueling uphill battle. But when he aligns himself with the mob, he realizes that he's sacrificed far more than just his principles. This gritty action drama boasts an all-star cast including Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle and Brian Dennehy.
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A Civil Action

Rated: 0 | 187 Views Released Year: 1998

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: In this true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation for big bucks when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens -- lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died -- hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

Rated: 0 | 178 Views Released Year: 1962

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Set in a small Alabama town during the Depression, this adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), a lawyer who defends an innocent black man (Brock Peters) against rape charges, but winds up in a fury of hate and prejudice. Finch's children, Jem and Scout (Phillip Alford and Mary Badham), soon learn lessons about race, class, justice and the pain of growing up.
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A Time to Kill

Rated: 0 | 173 Views Released Year: 1996

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: After the brutal rape of a black girl by two white men in a small Mississippi town, the child's vengeful father (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands. But as his trial date approaches, all hell breaks loose. Aided by lawyer Matthew McConaughey and spunky legal assistant Sandra Bullock, the father fights to stay out of prison and salve his daughter's terrible memories.
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A Private Matter

Rated: 0 | 173 Views Released Year: 1992

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: In this fact-based drama, children's TV show host Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek) sparks a national controversy when she decides to abort her fetus, which is severely damaged from the drug thalidomide. When the "Romper Room" host's secret is discovered, the news spawns a media storm and divides the country. Sherri and her husband (Aidan Quinn) are hounded by the press, their private lives becoming an open book during a most difficult time.
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A Soldier's Story

Rated: 0 | 137 Views Released Year: 1984

Genre: Social Issue Dramas
About: Racial tensions flare in this gripping drama set in Louisiana at the end of World War II. When Army attorney Capt. Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) is sent to Fort Neal to investigate the murder of a black sergeant, he faces a mystery much more complex than he'd imagined. Also starring Adolph Caesar and directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards.
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