100 MOVIES HIGHLY RELEVANT TO SOCIOLOGY STUDY
1. Parasite (2019)
Social class, inequality, housing, status, and class conflict.
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Group dynamics, prejudice, conformity, persuasion, and social judgment.
3. Do the Right Thing (1989)
Race, neighborhood relations, policing, inequality, and collective conflict.
4. The Truman Show (1998)
Social control, surveillance, media, conformity, and constructed reality.
5. Fight Club (1999)
Consumerism, masculinity, alienation, identity, and social movements.
6. American History X (1998)
Racism, extremist groups, socialization, prisons, and prejudice.
7. Crash (2004)
Race, stereotypes, prejudice, institutions, and urban interaction.
8. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Race, neighborhood inequality, family, violence, and social mobility.
9. Moonlight (2016)
Identity, masculinity, poverty, family, community, and socialization.
10. Get Out (2017)
Race, power, privilege, cultural appropriation, and social inequality.
11. The Social Network (2010)
Technology, social networks, status, entrepreneurship, and power.
12. Nomadland (2020)
Aging, employment insecurity, housing, community, and economic inequality.
13. Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Gig work, labor exploitation, family stress, and economic insecurity.
14. I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Bureaucracy, welfare systems, poverty, unemployment, and social policy.
15. The Florida Project (2017)
Childhood poverty, housing insecurity, tourism economies, and marginalization.
16. Shoplifters (2018)
Poverty, family definitions, deviance, social exclusion, and survival.
17. Roma (2018)
Class, domestic labor, gender, ethnicity, and family.
18. Snowpiercer (2013)
Class stratification, inequality, revolution, and social order.
19. The Platform (2019)
Resource distribution, inequality, cooperation, and social hierarchy.
20. Modern Times (1936)
Industrialization, capitalism, labor, bureaucracy, and alienation.
21. Metropolis (1927)
Industrial society, class conflict, technology, and labor.
22. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Migration, poverty, labor exploitation, family, and economic crisis.
23. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Poverty, unemployment, family responsibility, and social structure.
24. On the Waterfront (1954)
Labor unions, corruption, community pressure, and collective action.
25. Norma Rae (1979)
Labor organizing, gender, class, and workplace power.
26. Matewan (1987)
Labor conflict, unions, race, immigration, and class solidarity.
27. Bread and Roses (2000)
Immigrant labor, inequality, unions, and collective action.
28. North Country (2005)
Gender discrimination, workplace culture, and institutional inequality.
29. Made in Dagenham (2010)
Gender inequality, labor movements, and equal pay.
30. Pride (2014)
Social movements, solidarity, identity, labor, and political mobilization.
31. Erin Brockovich (2000)
Corporate power, environmental inequality, law, and community activism.
32. Dark Waters (2019)
Corporate institutions, environmental risk, regulation, and community health.
33. Silkwood (1983)
Workplace safety, corporate power, labor, and institutional accountability.
34. The Big Short (2015)
Financial institutions, inequality, markets, organizational failure, and economic crisis.
35. Wall Street (1987)
Capitalism, wealth, status, corporate culture, and greed.
36. Margin Call (2011)
Organizational sociology, financial institutions, ethics, and elite decision-making.
37. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Race, capitalism, labor, identity, and corporate power.
38. Office Space (1999)
Bureaucracy, workplace culture, alienation, and organizational behavior.
39. Up in the Air (2009)
Corporate restructuring, unemployment, relationships, and occupational identity.
40. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Poverty, homelessness, social mobility, family, and the American Dream.
41. Precious (2009)
Poverty, education, abuse, gender, race, and social services.
42. Good Will Hunting (1997)
Social class, education, opportunity, identity, and social mobility.
43. Dead Poets Society (1989)
Education, conformity, authority, institutions, and individualism.
44. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Adolescence, labeling, status groups, stereotypes, and school culture.
45. Freedom Writers (2007)
Education, race, gangs, inequality, and social integration.
46. Stand and Deliver (1988)
Education, ethnicity, expectations, inequality, and achievement.
47. Lean on Me (1989)
Schools, authority, poverty, community, and institutional change.
48. Dangerous Minds (1995)
Education, class, race, inequality, and teacher-student relationships.
49. The Class (Entre les murs) (2008)
Education, immigration, cultural conflict, and institutional authority.
50. To Sir, with Love (1967)
Education, class, race, youth culture, and socialization.
51. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Institutions, labeling, authority, deviance, and social control.
52. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Mental-health institutions, labeling, gender, identity, and norms.
53. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Mental illness, stigma, institutions, relationships, and professional identity.
54. Joker (2019)
Social isolation, inequality, mental-health systems, deviance, and urban disorder.
55. Taxi Driver (1976)
Alienation, urban life, isolation, violence, and deviance.
56. Falling Down (1993)
Alienation, masculinity, economic anxiety, and urban conflict.
57. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Addiction, consumer culture, marginalization, and social isolation.
58. Trainspotting (1996)
Addiction, youth subculture, class, deviance, and identity.
59. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Youth, addiction, peer groups, deviance, and urban life.
60. Beautiful Boy (2018)
Addiction, family relationships, class, treatment, and stigma.
61. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Prison institutions, institutionalization, power, friendship, and social control.
62. The Green Mile (1999)
Prison, punishment, race, authority, and morality.
63. Dead Man Walking (1995)
Capital punishment, religion, crime, inequality, and criminal justice.
64. Fruitvale Station (2013)
Race, policing, inequality, family, and criminal justice.
65. Just Mercy (2019)
Race, law, incarceration, inequality, and capital punishment.
66. The Hurricane (1999)
Race, wrongful conviction, institutions, and criminal justice.
67. In the Name of the Father (1993)
State power, wrongful conviction, family, and political conflict.
68. American Me (1992)
Gangs, prisons, ethnicity, socialization, and violence.
69. Menace II Society (1993)
Urban poverty, violence, race, peer influence, and social structure.
70. La Haine (1995)
Policing, immigration, class, race, youth, and urban marginalization.
71. Selma (2014)
Civil rights, race, social movements, political institutions, and collective action.
72. Malcolm X (1992)
Race, religion, identity, social movements, and political change.
73. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Race, policing, political organizations, surveillance, and social movements.
74. Mississippi Burning (1988)
Racism, institutions, violence, community, and civil rights.
75. Hidden Figures (2016)
Race, gender, organizations, occupational segregation, and social mobility.
76. The Help (2011)
Race, domestic labor, gender, class, and segregation.
77. Loving (2016)
Marriage, race, law, family, and social change.
78. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Race, marriage, family norms, prejudice, and generational change.
79. Remember the Titans (2000)
Race, integration, sports, group identity, and prejudice.
80. Green Book (2018)
Race, segregation, class, cultural interaction, and social boundaries.
81. Milk (2008)
Identity, political participation, discrimination, and social movements.
82. Philadelphia (1993)
Stigma, discrimination, employment, sexuality, illness, and law.
83. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Gender norms, sexuality, rural culture, stigma, and social expectations.
84. The Danish Girl (2015)
Gender identity, institutions, marriage, and social norms.
85. Suffragette (2015)
Gender inequality, political rights, collective action, and social movements.
86. The Color Purple (1985)
Race, gender, family, violence, inequality, and empowerment.
87. Thelma & Louise (1991)
Gender roles, patriarchy, violence, friendship, and social control.
88. North Country (2005)
Sexual harassment, gender inequality, workplace institutions, and law.
89. Promising Young Woman (2020)
Gender, sexual violence, institutional responses, and social norms.
90. Women Talking (2022)
Gender, religion, community power, collective decision-making, and social change.
91. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Ethnicity, genocide, institutions, collective violence, and international society.
92. The Killing Fields (1984)
Political violence, genocide, institutions, and survival.
93. Schindler's List (1993)
Genocide, bureaucracy, ethnicity, obedience, and moral action.
94. The Pianist (2002)
War, ethnicity, persecution, survival, and social exclusion.
95. District 9 (2009)
Xenophobia, segregation, bureaucracy, migration, and inequality.
96. Children of Men (2006)
Migration, authoritarianism, social collapse, refugees, and demographic crisis.
97. V for Vendetta (2005)
Authoritarianism, propaganda, collective action, resistance, and social control.
98. 1984 (1984)
Surveillance, ideology, propaganda, conformity, and totalitarian social control.
99. The Lives of Others (2006)
Surveillance, state institutions, conformity, privacy, and resistance.
100. Network (1976)
Mass media, corporate institutions, public opinion, commodification, and social influence.
