Movies (135) tagged by 'Immigrant'
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Lord of War (2005)
Based on actual events, this black comedy-drama stars Nicholas Cage as international arms smuggler Uri Orlov. The story follows Uri from his humble beginnings a...
Under the Same Moon (2008)
Single mother Rosario (Kate del Castillo) leaves her young son Carlitos (Adrian Alonso) in the care of his grandmother and illegally crosses t...
Brick Lane (2007)
At 17, Nazneen (Chatterjee) enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in Brick Lane with her family, she meets young man Karim (Simp...
Syriana (2005)
Syriana is a thriller of corruption and power related to the oil industry that tells four parallel stories: the CIA agent Bob Barnes with great experience in M...
Gangs of New York (2002)
When his father is killed in New York City, Amsterdam Vallon returns in 1863 to hunt down his father's killer, the ruthless, Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting. It's n...
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey...
Crossing Over (2009)
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desper...
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Los Angeles police partners (Mel Gibson, Danny Glover) take on members of a Chinese triad who are smuggling families from the mainland. ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she cou...
Montenegro (1981)
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advis...
The Legend of 1900 (1999)
Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays ...
The Visitor (2008)
In Connecticut, the widower and lonely Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to pl...
Biutiful (2010)
Uxbal is a man who wrestles with his desire to be a good citizen and his lawless past. On his journey to redemption, darkness lights the way. He is a d...
Mambo Italiano (2004)
Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parent...
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests...
Concussion (2015)
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course...
Swept from the Sea (1997)
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko e...
Dirty Pretty Things (2003)
A hotel receptionist (Sergi L??pez) runs a racket where desperate immigrants each give up a kidney in exchange for a passport.
Mitr, My Friend (2002)
Chidambaram-based Lakshmi gets married to Prithvi and re-locates to live with him in San Francisco, U.S.A.. Even though he is employed, he makes time for her an...
I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the youn...
Wake of Death (2004)
Ben Archer is a thug/enforcer for a criminal organization. Tiring of the work, he tells his coworkers that he's ready to retire. His wife Cynthia is a social w...
Brooklyn (2015)
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two ...
Je vous trouve tres beau (2006)
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It's a Free World... (2008)
Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business ...
I Remember Mama (1948)
Irene Dunne stars in this nostalgic picture directed by George Stevens as the mother anyone would love. Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter (Barbara Be...
Man Push Cart (2005)
Ahmad is a hard working Pakistani trying to keep his head above water in New York, serving coffee and treats to the busy Manhattan-ites from his push cart dur...
My Father Is Coming (1991)
A immigrant's father is coming to visit from Germany. She has lied to him about her acting career, having looked unsuccessfully for parts for a year, and has al...
Yasmin (2005)
Stephanie returns home to care for her dying mother. Having run away to the big city over 15 years ago, Stephanie is reminded of another lifestyle back in the...
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
A young American man in Russia in the 1920s to help build a factory makes a request to go home to the U.S. He is told that he will have to renounce his American...
Amu (2005)
Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born. The fi...
Samba (2014)
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergo...
Jalla! Jalla! (2000)
Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Roros best frie...
Los Jornaleros (2003)
Los Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as...
Black Joy (1977)
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life of the Brixton ghetto.
The Manions of America (1981)
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Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process,...
Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)
Two best friends rise through the ranks of New York's Chinese underworld in the 1980s.
Here and There (2010)
In two interconnected stories Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, goes to Serbia to make quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The pla...
Des Pardes (1978)
Samir Sahni is a farmer living with his mom, dad, wife, Rama, a young daughter, and his younger brother, Veer. Samir gets an offer to work in the U.K., and depa...
A Most Violent Year (2014)
In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
The Maid's Room (2013)
THE MAID'S ROOM is a psychological thriller that explores the complex relationships between truth and justice, hubris and power, wealth and fear.
Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)
Joska, a Hungarian immigrant in Los Angeles is sharing an apartment with the Russian Vladislav. In their search for the "American Dream" they get into all kind...
Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
A ruthless philanthropist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. ...
An American Pickle (2020)
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn.
The Immigrant (2013)
On the mean streets of Manhattan, Ewa falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution.
L'esquive (2003)
In the slums of Paris, a group of students - primarily North African and Southeast Asian immigrants - are staging a class production of the Marivaux play "Le Je...
The Immigrant (1917)
Charlie is on his way to the USA. He wins in a card game, puts the money in Edna's bag (she and her sick mother have been robbed of everything). When he retriev...
God's Own Country (2017)
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for...
Restless City (2011)
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greate...
A Day's Work (2008)
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance...
Run for Your Life (2008)
Without one eccentric first-generation Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, loving, and inspira...
The House of Suh (2010)
A chilling exploration of the tragic history of the Suh family and the murder that shocked America - when the picture perfect son, Andrew, shot and killed his s...
Midnight Ride (1990)
A series of mysterious murders have happened in Montevideo, a small city in California. A policeman's wife is running away from her husband, trying to divorce h...
Romance in Manhattan (1935)
Czechoslovakian immigrant Karel Novak fulfills his dream of coming to America only to learn at Ellis Island the entrance fee has been raised from $50 to $200. U...
Stadt der verlorenen Seelen (1983)
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Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017)
In his first stand-up special, Hasan Minhaj weaves humorous and heartbreaking anecdotes to tell his life story as an Indian-American Muslim. Topics include raci...
Mother of Rock Lillian Roxon (2010)
Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon shines a light into the decadent world of Max's Kansas City, a tiny underground club in New York, and Lillian Roxon's place in doc...
Children of Invention (2009)
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears.
Ladr?n Que Roba A Ladr?n (2008)
Emilio, a Colombian con man, arrives in LA with two weeks to complete his plan to rob a former colleague, Claudio Silvestrini, who's made a fortune using infom...
Gateway (1938)
Irish immigrant (Whalen) meets returning war correspondent (Ameche) on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amors of another passenger, charges resu...
Oh Happy Day (2007)
Two guys battle through the consequences of having had a one-night stand just before they started working together, and learn that to make a relationship work, ...
Ali Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly ...
King of America (1982)
Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY is a brutally funny depiction of the dangers of celebrity fandom. Robert De Niro plays the ridiculously inept Rupert Pupk...
The Glory Guys (1965)
What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
The Golden Dream (2013)
A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
What Will People Say (2017)
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norweg...
Amira & Sam (2014)
An army veteran's unlikely romance with an Iraqi immigrant is put to the test when she is faced with the prospect of deportation.
New Boy (2007)
It's the first day of school in Ireland for Joseph, an African lad of about ten or 12. The teacher introduces him to the class, he sits, and as the day progress...
Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.
Heroes Wanted (2016)
Spain has to prevent a nuclear war, for what they make an elite team made up of the best police agents of each part of the country. Its a team which by themselv...
You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
An unassuming pet photographer is thrown into serious action, adventure and romance when he's forced to marry a Croatian bride and spend his honeymoon at a remo...
Bloody Border (2013)
What do you get when you mix two hit-men brothers, their cocky protege, a couple of injured illegal immigrants, border patrol agents and a few colorful townsfol...
Black Fury (1935)
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Before the Storm (2000)
Before the Storm is a blending of two separate stories that are connected by association and the common underlying theme of morality. Ali (Per Graffman), an Ara...
In Jackson Heights (2015)
Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict bet...
Wait Until Spring Bandini (1989)
Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers.
Under Surveillance (2006)
After ten years, Justin Besler has moved back with his father. But his father's house isn't as Justin remembered. It's been renovated to support three apartment...
20th Century-Fox The First 50 Years (1997)
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major studio.
Madres (2021)
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange s...
The Long Gray Line (1955)
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military A...
Weeds (2017)
A film about empathy, and the struggle and distance someone may have to travel--against all odds--to find a better life.
America So Beautiful (2001)
America So Beautiful follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian Immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979...
Santitos (1999)
When St. Jude appears to her to tell her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza goes on a search to find her daughter.
Borderline (1980)
On the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb partner's murder.
Mala Noche (1986)
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak ...
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of bet...
Simone (2021)
A mysterious, erotic and haunting love story between a writer/professor at Puerto Rico's leading University and an aspiring artist from the immigrant Chine...
Sangre de mi sangre (2007)
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fa...
Translate This (2017)
Comedian Felipe Esparza in his second 1-hour special - this time on HBO. This time, Felipe's material gets more personal and focuses on his experience growing u...
The Virgin of Juarez (2006)
While on assignment, Los Angeles based reporter Karina Danes meets Mariela, a rare survivor of one of the vicious attacks taking place in the border town of Cui...
Lupe (2019)
A Cuban immigrant struggles with their transgender identity while searching for their missing sister in New York City's underground sex industry.
The Life Ahead (2020)
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Yakiniku Dragon (2018)
it is the 1970s and Yong Gil has immigrated to Japan from South Korea and operates a barbecue restaurant. He also operates a wife and three daughters. The daugh...
Half White (2020)
In an alternate, xenophobic America, four immigrants must undergo white-face makeovers in order to secure employment at a software company.
I Carry You with Me (2021)
Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be th...
Bugday (2017)
This film was inspired by a chapter from the Noble Quran. It is a post-apocalyptic story set in a world where those that survive, are divided between the remnan...
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife&...
Mad Ship (2013)
A poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way they never...
The Penalty (1920)
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
No Hard Feelings (2020)
Second-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as hi...
I'm No Longer Here (2019)
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leade...
Comme les autres (2008)
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the ri...
Moments in Spacetime (2020)
Macie (Patty Srisuwan), a Thai immigrant adopted into a North American family, must look after her dementia suffering grandfather (John Rhys-Davies), as she sea...
The Blot (1921)
The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next ...
Kapitalistis (2017)
'Santa Claus is a capitalist. He brings some presents to the rich children and sweaters to the others.' Loukas, 5 years old
Thunder in the Sun (1959)
1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle.
Spellbound (2002)
Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
The Italian (1915)
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. They are eventually reunited and marry. But lif...
They're a Weird Mob (1966)
An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend ...
The Cummington Story (1945)
War refugees begin new lives in a small Massachusetts town.
Manon (1949)
A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.
Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958)
The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they ...
Stateside (2020)
The journey of an undocumented Filipino immigrant struggling to survive in the US. Facing homelessness, racism, drug rings, and INS, Andrew seeks to find his pl...
The Big Pond (1930)
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical fath...
Special Flight (2011)
A 9 months immersion in the administrative detention center of Geneva, one of the 28 deportation centers in Switzerland.
Olhos Azuis (2010)
Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose...
Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation (2010)
When the bodies of 11 Central Americans and Mexicans were found inside a railcar in Denison, Iowa, the nation took notice. The documentary offers an honest, yet...
The Mick and the Trick (2024)
An Irish hit man working for a Cuban crime boss and the IRA tries to leave his life of crime with the help of a savvy hooker.
The Loneliest Road (2024)
The Loneliest Road is a documentary honoring the multi-ethnic communities that shaped the American West. It is inspired by Fresno-based author Silvio Manno&apos...
All American (2024)
In this modern, coming of age documentary, Naomi, Jojo and Arham grapple with economic divides, gender roles, and family dynamics while competing in the fastest...
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