List of Movies on Netflix by genre: Social Issue Dramas

A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.

A star cowboy in a traveling rodeo gets thrown off course when he falls in love with the daughter of a tough-minded town councilman.

A diverse group of African-American men treks from LA to Washington, DC in an eventful cross-country journey to the Million Man March.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

This adaptation of Ntozake Shange's play consists of a series of poetic vignettes that explore the lives of modern African American women.

Things look up for a Chennai man struggling to make ends meet when he falls for a politician’s daughter -- until he gets entangled in a murder case.

Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner.

A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule. Based on Pramoedya Ananta Toer's famed novel.

Mistaking the sleeping passenger on his train for a drunk, a young man posts a picture of him online, unaware of his impulsive act's ugly repercussions.

In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.