Social realism in film

Sankarabharanam

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8.9

Sankara Shastri is a devout and famous classical singer who finds a fan in Tulasi, a prostitute's daughter. She wants to devote herself to his service, but her mother wants her to become a prostitute.

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C/o Kancharapalem

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.8

From a schoolboy’s crush to a middle-aged bachelor’s office romance, four love stories spanning age, religion and status unfold in a small Indian town.

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Rocco and His Brothers

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 8.2

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

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Secrets & Lies

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 8

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.

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Kes

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he n...

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The Price of Coal: Part 1 – Meet the People

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.

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I, Daniel Blake

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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Death of a Cyclist

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

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Marty

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly res...

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