Films about social realism

Baramulla is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror thriller film directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale and produced under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It stars Manav Kaul and Bhasha Sumbli in the lead roles. The film was released on 7 November 2025 on Netflix. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise for the performances and cinematography.

1955 film directed by Delbert Mann

Sholay (, ) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed. The film follows two criminals, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), who are hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless bandit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star as Veeru and Jai's love interests, Basanti and Radha, respectively. The soundtrack was composed by R D Burman.

1940 film by John Ford

1953 Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu

is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

1960 film by Luchino Visconti

1957 film directed by Mehboob Khan

2006 film directed by Ken Loach

1977 Italian film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

2016 film directed by Ken Loach

thumb|x150px|thumbtime=2:10:03|Awaara (1951) Awaara, also written Awāra and known overseas as The Vagabond, is a 1951 Indian crime drama film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and V.P. Sathe. It stars Raj Kapoor along with his real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor, as well as Nargis, Leela Chitnis and K. N. Singh. Other members of the Kapoor family make an appearance, including Raj's youngest brother Shashi Kapoor, who plays the younger version of his character, and Prithiviraj's father Dewan Basheshwarnath Singh Kapoor, playing a cameo in his only film appea

1996 UK film by Mike Leigh

1959 film by Jack Clayton

1928 film by King Vidor

1950 film by Luis Buñuel

2004 film by Mike Leigh

1962 film by Tony Richardson

2002 film by Stephen Frears

1969 film directed by Ken Loach

1955 film by Juan Antonio Bardem

2002 film by Fernando León de Aranoa

2019 film by Ken Loach

1961 film by Ermanno Olmi

1963 film by Lindsay Anderson

Deewaar ( The Wall) is a 1975 Indian action crime film directed by Yash Chopra, from a story by Salim–Javed. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, and Amitabh Bachchan alongside an ensemble cast of Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi, Iftekhar, Madan Puri, Satyen Kappu and Manmohan Krishna. The music was composed by R. D. Burman, while cinematography and editing were handled by Kay Gee Koregaonkar and T. R. Mangeshkar-Pran Mehra. In the film, two impoverished brothers struggle to survive in the slums of Mumbai and eventually find themselves on opposing sides of the law. The film's title signifies th

1976 film by Ettore Scola

1999 film by Zhang Yimou

1933 film by Luis Buñuel

1952 film by Renato Castellani

Kaabil () is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action-thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Vijay Kumar Mishra, and produced by Rakesh Roshan under his banner FilmKraft Productions. The film stars Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy and Rohit Roy. The film’s soundtrack is composed by Rajesh Roshan. Principal photography began on 30 March 2016.

1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1953 Indian Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy

1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1973 film by Satyajit Ray

1951 film by Mario Monicelli, Stefano Vanzina

1959 British film directed by Tony Richardson

2003 film by Héctor Babenco

1961 film by Tony Richardson

1932 film by Slatan Dudow

1960 film by Karel Reisz

1954 film by Herbert Biberman

2023 film by Ken Loach

1963 film by John Schlesinger

1946 film by Chetan Anand

1959 Hindi language film directed by Bimal Roy

1959 film by J. Lee Thompson

1960 drama film directed by Tony Richardson

2000 film by Ken Loach

2003 film by Ravi Chopra

1990 film directed by Mike Leigh

1974 film by Mario Monicelli

1963 film by Bimal Roy

1934 film by King Vidor

2007 British film

1996 film by Ken Loach

1992 film directed by Edward James Olmos

2023 film by Kiran Rao

1962 film by John Schlesinger

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (; "Small Child: The Law of the Weakest") is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jorge Durán, based on the book A Infância dos Mortos (The Childhood of the Dead Ones) by José Louzeiro. The film is a docudrama account of Brazil's lower classes youth exposure to organized crime and police corruption.