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The movies in this list are real class apart. You would enjoy watching them greatly if you share my taste, learning objective & level of intellect. Each movie is a warehouse of inspirational ideas, stories, dialogues and examples.
- 10 District 9
- 9 Dream Home
- 8 They Cloned Tyrone
- 7 Snowpiercer
- 6 Boyz N The Hood
- 5 Children of Men
- 4 Sorry to Bother You
- 3 Us
- 2 The Florida Project
- 1 Parasite
In 1982, an invading alien spaceshiparrives over Johannesburg, South Africa; inside are more than a million dying extraterrestrials. The government places these beings, derogatorily referred to as “prawns,” in a camp called District 9, a slum that only gets increasingly worse as time goes by. In 2010, weapons manufacturer Multinational United (MNU)...
The 2010 Hong Kong slasher film Dream Home, by famed Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung, explores another side of the class struggle: unaffordable housing. Told through a series of flashbacks, Dream Home follows young homebuyer Cheng Lai-sheung (Josie Ho) on her quest for revenge after her buying experience turns sour. In a market so bloated that pr...
Taking place in a downtrodden neighborhood known only as the Glen, the Netflix film They Cloned Tyrone is about a trio of residents who discover something isn’t quite right around them. The film stars John Boyega as Fontaine, a drug dealer without much direction, as well as sex worker Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) and her pimp, Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx)....
Before Bong Joon-ho captured our class-conscious minds with Parasite, he explored the cavernous class divide in his 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer. Based on the French comic of the same name, Snowpiercer posits a world where humanity has destroyed the climate and brought about a new ice age. The outside is untenable, and so the l...
Featuring an all-star cast—including Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, and Ice Cube—Boyz n the Hood shows one summer in the lives of three young men growing up in Los Angeles’s Crenshaw neighborhood. The three couldn’t be more different, with Ice Cube’s Doughboy resigning himself to life in a gang, Morris Chestnut’s Ricky eager ...
Children of Menis set in a futuristic world in which women are no longer able to give birth. The cause of this sudden reproductive failure is unknown, and unrest ensues without the ability to continue humanity’s lineage. The UK, which has one of the few remaining functional governments, has devolved into a police state where immigrants are detained...
The 2018 dark comedy Sorry to Bother You follows Cassius “Cash” Green (Lakeith Stanfield), a Black man who discovers he can find greater success in his telemarketing job by using his “White” voice. Cash, his girlfriend Detroit, and their coworkers Sal (Jermaine Fowler) and Squeeze (Steven Yeun) plan to form a union, but Cash gets sidetracked as he ...
The follow-up to Jordan Peele’s breakout social horror hit Get Out, Us is about an uprising of spooky doppelgängersattempting to take out their “real” counterparts. The film follows the Thomas family—mother Adelaide (Lupita N’yongo), father Gabe (Winston Duke), daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and son Jason (Evan Alex)—as they go on summer vac...
Sitting in the shadow of Florida’s “Happiest Place on Earth,” The Florida Project reveals the harsh reality of life for many of the state’s less fortunate residents. The film follows six-year-old Moonee, a child who lives with her young mother at a cheap motel in Kissimmee. Life is hard for the people living in motels like Futureland and Magic Cast...
The winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture, Parasite tells the story of a poverty-stricken family and their relationship with the disgustingly wealthy family that employs them. This relationship begins when son Ki-woo begins privately tutoring the Park family’s young son. Once the tutoring begins, Ki-woo finds opportunities within the ho...
- “Bridesmaids” (2011) Alonso Duralde (@aduralde) TheWrap, Linoleum Knife, Who Shot Ya? , Breakfast All Day. It’s worth mentioning that one of the reasons “Bridesmaids” was so resonant was that the comedy was rooted in economic anxiety.
- “The Florida Project” (2017) Robert Daniels (@812filmreviews) 812filmreviews, Mediaversity, Freelance. In the shadows of Disney World, in the grassy dilapidated remnants of the financial crisis, around a ramshackle purple motel named the Magic Castle exist Halley (Bria Vinaite) and Moonee (Brooklynn Prince): the mother-daughter duo at the center of Sean Baker’s thoughtful portrait of the ills of capitalism—”The Florida Project.”
- “The Good Girls” (2018) Oralia Torres (@oraleia), Cinescopia, Malvestida. The first movie that came to mind was Alejandra Marquez Abella’s “Las Niñas Bien” (“The Good Girls”).
- “Pain and Gain” (2013) Clint Worthington (@clintworthing), Consequence of Sound, The Spool. 2013 was the Year of Greed in the world of cinema: “Spring Breakers,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “The Bling Ring,” and others worked to crystallize our post-recession disdain for the trappings and sociopathy of wealth and opulence.
- The Host (2006) In The Host, which was directed by Bong Joon-ho, the film begins with major commentary. American scientists, despite being advised not to do this, dump major chemicals into the Han River in Seoul.
- Children of Heaven (1997) 1997’s Children of Heaven was directed by Majid Majidi, who became interested in film after the Iranian Revolution. The film’s focus is on a brother and sister, Ali and Zahra, who are nine and seven.
- Girlhood (2015) Celine Sciamma’s Girlhood is often underrated when it comes to discussions about her filmography, despite the movie gaining acclaim at film festivals when it was first released.
- A Touch of Sin (2013) Director Jia Zhangke is one of the best known Chinese filmmakers of the 2000s and onwards, and his film A Touch of Sin can be considered a modern masterpiece.
The following list contains some of the most iconic, talked-about social inequality movies of recent years. However, it also has some older gems that paved the way for these cultural conversations to take place in film.
Mar 28, 2021 · For those that liked The White Tiger or want to get well-adjusted to the theme before they binge it, these films similarly tackle topics that surround class struggle, including the caste system, poverty, and riches - all in a truthful, tragic, and entertaining way.
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Oct 20, 2015 · Considered a “portrait of class manners” (Owen Gleiberman), this acerbic social commentary, rather than distinguishing between the upper class and the servants in the film, brings to the fore their similarities.
