List of Movies on Netflix by genre: Social Issue Dramas

A group of neighborhood teens from a low-income community finds an escape from their harsh realities by breaking into a nearby mansion.

Determined to give her son a private school education, a single mother in the inner city uses all her resources to try to effect change in the system.

Two wealthy Californians consider themselves progressive until their daughter brings home a black fiancé amidst tense race relations in the 1960s.

Sent away to evade an arranged marriage, a 14-year-old begins a harrowing journey of sex work and poverty in the slums of Accra.

After strong-willed widow Miss Daisy crashes her car, she reluctantly hires a chauffeur, and the two strike up an unexpected friendship.

A perpetually unemployed graduate desperately leaves his city for a potential opportunity until a roadblock threatens to derail his chance at a career.

Exploring their sexual identities in the face of the patriarchal rules of their Assamese village, a teenager and her two friends are rocked by tragedy.

Savage civil war and a dispute over humanitarian assistance threaten to unravel a checkered romance between an aid director and a doctor.

After a trip to China, a struggling entrepreneur returns to India as the supplier of an illegal aphrodisiac — but all he ends up stimulating is chaos.

A group of local women band together to save a terrified young girl from marriage, launching a hilarious strike against their frustrated husbands.