Movies and TvShows featuring "social-portrait" theme.

In Night Train (1959), a mysterious man boards a train and his presence leads to turmoil and suspicion among the passengers. As the night unfolds, secrets are revealed, and the passengers must confront their own moral ambiguity and loneliness. The claustrophobic environment of the train intensifies the tension, as the passengers try to uncover the truth while trying to escape their own personal turmoil.

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever.

In 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film imagines what would have happened to this child until the day of his death, when the boat in which he was with a family heading to Greece turned on the high seas. The story arises from a moment of magical realism, in which Aylan's spirit emerges from his body and wanders back to the world of refugees and those provoked by war, who escape to escape for a better life.

Documentary about the life of a young woman from the countryside who works in a city factory, her hopes and difficulties.

Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw’s Wola district.