List of Movies on Netflix by genre: Social Issue Dramas

An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the coast of Italy and declares it a nation, drawing the attention of the world — and the government.

Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.”

After becoming separated from her family, a young girl finds herself in the care of a heartbroken woman who faces her own struggles.

A newly widowed Korean War veteran faces his racism and his past when the son of the Hmong family next door tries to steal his beloved 1972 Gran Torino.

In a near-future dystopian society, a masked anarchist fomenting a revolution recruits a TV network employee, while a detective seeks his true identity.

This dramatic rendering of a real-life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, shot by San Francisco transit police on New Year's Day, 2009.

Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child in the aftermath of a tragic school shooting.

A young couple's interracial marriage in 1958 sparks a case that leads to the Supreme Court. Based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving.

When the father of a boy with Down syndrome resists his neighbors' efforts to have the child institutionalized, miraculous events begin to occur.