Movies tagged as "social injustice"

All the King's Men [2006, Germany, USA ] starting from $1.99

Time brings all things to light.

Genres: Drama Actors: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Jackie Earle Haley, Kathy Baker, Talia Balsam, Travis Champagne, Frederic Forrest, Paul Desmond, Kevin Dunn, Kevin McCarthy, Directors: Steven Zaillian Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.

Amistad [1997, USA ] starting from $1.99

Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.

Genres: Drama, History, Mystery Actors: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård, Razaaq Adoti, Abu Bakaar Fofanah, Anna Paquin, Tomas Milian, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Derrick N. Ashong, Geno Silva Directors: Steven Spielberg, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Cry Freedom [1987, UK ] starting from $1.99

The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world

Genres: Biography, Drama Actors: Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, John Matshikiza, Juanita Waterman, Evelyn Sithole, Xoliswa Sithole, James Coine, Kevin Kline, Kevin McNally, Albert Ndinda, Andrew Whaley, Shelley Borkum, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, Directors: Richard Attenborough Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Oliver Twist [2005, UK, Czech Republic, France, Italy ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Drama, Family Actors: Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy de la Tour, Filip Hess, Andreas Papadopoulos, Laurie Athey, Joseph Tremain, Peter Copley, Andy Linden, John Nettleton, Tony Noble, Michael Heath, Directors: Roman Polanski Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

Street Kings [2008, USA ] starting from $1.99

Their City. Their Rules. No Prisoners.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer, Jay Mohr, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, Common, Martha Higareda, John Corbett, Amaury Nolasco, Noel Gugliemi, Michael Monks, Daryl Gates, Directors: David Ayer Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

V for Vendetta [2005, USA, UK, Germany ] starting from $1.99

Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gun powder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sinéad Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner, Directors: James McTeigue Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Verdict, The [1982, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Drama Actors: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Binns, Julie Bovasso, Roxanne Hart, James Handy, Wesley Addy, Joe Seneca, Lewis J. Stadlen, Kent Broadhurst, Colin Stinton, Directors: Sidney Lumet Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court: to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

X-Men [2000, USA ] starting from $1.99

Join the Evolution.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Anna Paquin, Tyler Mane, Ray Park, Rebecca Romijn, Directors: Bryan Singer Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Across the world, children are born with an extra twist to their chromosomes that allow them to exhibit superhuman abilities: fire a beam of force from their eyes, or sprout wings that allow flight or being able to read men's minds. These 'children of the atom' are often feared and despised by the world, forcing these 'mutants' to resort to desperate actions. However, one group of mutants have banded together to show the world that it need not fear their kind. Apart, they are simply scientific curiousities, freaks and monsters - but together, united by their shared belief, they are more - they are the uncanny X-Men.

X2 [2003, USA ] starting from $1.99

The time has come for those who are different to stand united

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn, Rebecca Romijn, Brian Cox, Directors: Bryan Singer Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president. Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who has experimented on mutants, leads a siege on Xavier's mansion- few mutants escape. With the school no longer safe, Magneto out of prison and forming a temporary alliance with the X-Men, and Professor Xavier in the hands of Stryker; the mutants team up to stop Stryker's plans to wipe the mutants off the face of the Earth.