Sentence examples for problem films from inspiring English sources

The producer, Stanley Kramer, was a young man gathering a reputation as a maker of social problem films like "Home of the Brave," a 1949 film about racism in the United States Army, written by Foreman and directed by Mark Robson.

Consider the manner in which the right defends the vision of a "color-blind society," for example, in tones that echo the earnest speech the good-guy lieutenant or hospital administrator or baseball manager was always making in those "problem films" of the 50's.

Not surprisingly given the social circumstances, politically-oriented social problem films ridiculed politicians and portrayed them as incompetent bumblers, scoundrels, and liars.

Americans' mistrust and dislike of lawyers was a frequent topic of dissection in social problem films such Lawyer Man (1933), State's Attorney, and The Mouthpiece (1932).

As a result, only two social problem films released by independent film companies addressed the mania in Germany during the Pre-Code era (Are We Civilized? and Hitler's Reign of Terror).

It was viewed as a problem film that no one knew how to market.

Most genres can be defined by their subject matter or setting e.g., the western, the gangster film, the police thriller, the science-fiction film, or the social problem film.

Often misclassified as film noir, it's a model of the social problem film as it emerged from World War II, as returning veterans found that the egalitarianism of Army life did not carry over into the civilian world.

The melodrama also encompasses many subjects and styles; it has even been combined with other genres for example, with the western in Rancho Notorious (1952) and with the problem film in Ordinary People (1980).

The problem? Film is hard to get these days and even with the support of a Super 8 subculture it will be hard to see just who is going to produce this stuff profitably.

The likely nominees from 2008 include two social-problem films, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and Gus Van Sant's "Milk"; two films derived from topical plays ("Frost/Nixon" and "Doubt"); and two taken from celebrated novels with aggressively adult themes ("The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road").