Genre: Social Issue Dramas
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A Respectable Family (2012)
Cast: Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi …
Directed by: Massoud Bakhshi
When he returns to Iran to teach after working in the West for many years, professor Arash deals with the country's bureaucracy and drama within his own family as he re-experiences the…
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A Perfect Ending (2012)
Cast: Barbara Niven, Jessica Clark, John Heard …
Directed by: Nicole Conn
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept much of her personal life a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a high priced escort named Paris. While…
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Francine (2012)
Cast: Melissa Leo, Victoria Charkut, Keith Leonard …
Directed by: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Following her release from prison, Francine tries to rebuild her small-town life through a string of jobs in veterinary clinics. The work with animals feeds her hunger for social isolation,…
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Deadline (2012)
Cast: Eric Roberts, Steve Talley, Anna Felix …
Directed by: Curt Hahn
Following a fateful meeting with an altruistic woman, a young man sets out to solve the long-forgotten murder of a black youth in rural Alabama. A seasoned newspaper reporter joins him in the…
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Won't Back Down (2012)
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter …
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
In this fact-based drama, two women from different classes and races (Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal) draw on their common bond of motherhood to fight institutional inertia and an…
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A Hard Lesson (2012)
Cast: Jonathan Sale, Glynn Turman, Frank Vincent …
Directed by: Juney Smith
Jeff Solomon White, a Jewish parole officer raised by African American parents, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illiterate teens at a New York high school. White is…
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1 Out of 7 (2012)
Cast: Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway, Theresa Russell …
Directed by: York Shackleton
Pregnant and alone on the streets of Portland, teenager Lexi finds support from Devon, a woman who has overcome her own troubled times. As Lexi's due date nears, the reappearance of the…
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Any Day Now (2012)
Cast: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva …
Directed by: Travis Fine
Rudy and Paul take in their neighbor's teenage son Marco, who has Down syndrome, when his neglectful mother throws him out of her apartment. Their attempt to legally adopt Marco sparks a…
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Crooked Arrows (2012)
Cast: Brandon Routh, Michael Hudson, Gil Birmingham …
Directed by: Steve Rash
As an American Indian lacrosse team prepares to go up against the better trained and equipped teams of the elite New York Prep League, they gain confidence when their coach gives them…
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The Help (2011)
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard …
Directed by: Tate Taylor
In 1960s Jackson, Miss., aspiring writer Eugenia Phelan crosses taboo racial lines by conversing with Aibileen Clark about her life as a housekeeper, and their ensuing friendship upsets the…
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Albert Nobbs (2011)
Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson …
Directed by: Rodrigo García
Having for decades disguised herself as a man while working as a butler in a posh 19th-century Dublin hotel, a woman calling herself Albert Nobbs reconsiders her charade when a handsome…
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Puncture (2011)
Cast: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw …
Directed by: Mark Kassen, Adam Kassen
Drug-addicted attorney Mike and his business partner Paul take on a case involving an emergency room nurse who has been pricked by an infected needle. Uncovering a web of corporate…
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J. Edgar (2011)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this riveting biopic as J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime FBI director as notorious for his overzealous methods of law enforcement as for the rumors regarding his…
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A Better Life (2011)
Cast: Demián Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia …
Directed by: Chris Weitz
This candid social drama tracks the relationship and conflicts between Mexican immigrant gardener Carlos and his teenage son Luis, whom he's trying to interest in earning an honest…
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Main Street (2011)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson …
Directed by: John Doyle
When an outsider arrives and proposes storing hazardous waste in their small North Carolina town, the residents must weigh the risks against the financial rewards in this ensemble drama that…
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Sam Levinson
Upper-crust family dysfunction takes center stage in this drama, which stars Ellen Barkin as a divorcée attending the highbrow wedding of the son she barely knows and trying to hold her own…
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Oranges and Sunshine (2011)
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, Aisling Loftus …
Directed by: Jim Loach
This drama based on a true story follows British social worker Margaret Humphreys as she uncovers a shocking deportation scandal involving thousands of children and risks her personal life to…
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Terri (2011)
Cast: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, Bridger Zadina …
Directed by: Azazel Jacobs
This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Terri, an overweight orphan who, while struggling to find acceptance with his peers, forms an unlikely friendship with his vice principal, who also…
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Miral (2011)
Cast: Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Willem Dafoe …
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
After rescuing children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, a Palestinian woman establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children. But the success of her institution…
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Fly Away (2011)
Cast: Beth Broderick, Ashley Rickards, Greg Germann …
Directed by: Janet Grillo
Single mother Jeanne is dedicated to enriching the life of her severely autistic teenage daughter, Mandy. But as Mandy matures, the challenges of her condition grow too extreme for Jeanne to…
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Snow on Tha Bluff (2011)
Cast: Curtis Snow, Cat Erickson, Adrienne Lockett …
Directed by: Damon Russell
Set in urban Atlanta, this hyperreal gangster drama centers on kinetic dope dealer Curtis Snow, who nabs a video camera off a pair of college kids, then begins recording the deals, deliveries…
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96 Minutes (2011)
Cast: Brittany Snow, Evan Ross, Christian Serratos …
Directed by: Aimee Lagos
Retracing the steps that led four young people down a fateful path of decision-making, this indie thriller tells the story of a violent carjacking from the perspective of both the…
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Cyberbully (2011)
Cast: Emily Osment, Kay Panabaker, Kelly Rowan …
Directed by: Charles Biname
Teenager Taylor Hillridge finds herself a target of bullying by fellow students through a popular social website in this topical drama with a message. After the abuse makes Taylor afraid to…
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Money Matters (2011)
Cast: Aunjanue Ellis, Terri Abney, James Whalen …
Directed by: Ryan Richmond
Monique "Money" Matters attends a Catholic school three bus rides away from her inner-city life and her emotionally troubled mother. When she makes a friend in her own neighborhood, she…
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Silenced (2011)
Cast: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jeong, Hyeon-soo Kim …
Directed by: Dong-hyuk Hwang
Though it is hard to believe, this is the true account of what took place inside a school for the deaf. For about 5 years since 2000, the principal and some teachers committed inhumane sexual…