List of Movies on Netflix by genre: Social Issue Dramas

The justice system and incarceration have haunted Elijah Dixon since his youth. But even behind bars, freedom comes in the art he creates.

When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family and his own conflicted heart.

A bullied teenager gravitates toward the acceptance he finds in a street gang but soon ends up involved in a world of drug abuse and organized crime.

A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church.

In Jane Austen's tale of 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet hopes to marry her daughters to prosperous gentlemen, including new arrival Mr. Darcy.

A young, white writer stirs up the status quo in 1960s Mississippi by interviewing Black housemaids and bringing their stories to the masses.

This classic musical set among the tenements of New York City finds a pair of star-crossed lovers caught in a turf war between rival street gangs.

This drama centers on a series of revelatory television interviews between British talk show host David Frost and former President Richard Nixon.

In this mostly true story, inner-city teacher Jaime Escalante inspires a classroom of rebellious remedial students to excel in mathematics.

Separated from their young son during the brutal Khmer Rouge revolution, a couple must find ways to endure while searching for their child.