Top rated socially relevant movies on Criterion Channel
Check out today’s highest ranked socially relevant movies on Criterion Channel! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best socially relevant movies on Criterion Channel, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Joyland (2022)
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
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- 2022-11-18 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq
Rating
7.7
2 After Yang (2022)
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
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- 2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith
Rating
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6.424
3 I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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- 2017-02-03 | Documentary
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin
Rating
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7.717
4 No Man's Land (2001)
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
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- 2001-05-12 | Action / History
Cast
- Branko Đurić, Rene Bitorajac
Rating
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7.488
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5 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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- 1967-08-02 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
Rating
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7.627
6 Her (2013)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
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- 2013-12-18 | Romance / Science Fiction
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson
Rating
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7.858
7 Hive (2021)
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.
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- 2021-11-05 | Drama
Cast
- Yllka Gashi, Aurita Agushi
Rating
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7.2
8 Do the Right Thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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- 1989-06-14 | Drama
Cast
- Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis
Rating
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7.759
9 Hunger (2008)
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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- 2008-05-15 | Drama / History
Cast
- Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham
Rating
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7.248
10 The Other Side of Hope (2017)
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
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- 2017-02-03 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen
Rating
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7.0
