The invisible people list

The Soloist

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:52:53 GMT

The Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film based on a true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who develops schizophrenia and becomes homeless.

THEME: Homeless people, schizofrenia

Pa-ra-da

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:43:57 GMT

The film tells the true story of French clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania in 1992 to his encounter with the street children of Bucharest who live in the streets eking a living out of petty crime, begging, and prostitution. Miloud will succeed in creating a real circus company with the children.

THEME: Homeless child

I met the parada association last year in occasion of a tour that the kids were doing in europe, it was moving to see how good they are at doing their show, thinking of what they have past.

The Last King of Scotland

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:09:02 GMT

The Last King of Scotland tells the fictional story of a young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin. The film is based on factual events of Amin's rule.

THEME: dictature

Mandragora

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:42:42 GMT

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.

THEME: sex tourism often involving kids

Slumdog Millionaire

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:08:19 GMT

A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

THEME: life condition in India

City of God

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:10:57 GMT

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

THEME: life condition in Brasil

The Magdalene Sisters

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:12:15 GMT

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

THEME: abuse of power

Boys Don't Cry

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:15:19 GMT

The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who pursues a relationship with a young woman, played by Chloë Sevigny, and is beaten, raped and murdered by his male acquaintances after they discover he is anatomically female.

THEME: homophobia, hate

Angels in America

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:15:58 GMT

Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.

THEME: marginalization of people with an AIDS desease

Requiem for a Dream

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:19:42 GMT

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

THEME: drug addiction but, more important for this list, loneliness and isolation of elderly people

Philadelphia

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:19:58 GMT

When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

THEME: abandon and marginalization of people with AIDS