Immigration Movies, Movies about Immigration

Here we've displayed a list of the best Immigration films : Stroszek(1977), Which Way Home(2009), Sacco and Vanzetti(1971), The Joy Luck Club(1993), The Wedding Banquet(1993), Ruggles of Red Gap(1935), Bread and Chocolate(1974), Moonlighting(1982), Hold Back the Dawn(1941), Babel(2006), Lost Boys of Sudan(2003), Bagdad Cafe(1987) ... ...

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Stroszek

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

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Which Way Home

"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like ... See full summary »

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Sacco and Vanzetti

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

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The Joy Luck Club

The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.

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The Wedding Banquet

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

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Ruggles of Red Gap

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

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Bread and Chocolate

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

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Moonlighting

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ... See full summary »

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Hold Back the Dawn

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

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Babel

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

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Lost Boys of Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest ... See full summary »

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Bagdad Cafe

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

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Angela's Ashes

Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the ... See full summary »

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Dirty Pretty Things

Illegal immigrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.

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My Family/Mi Familia

A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.

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Broken Blossoms

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

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Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys

A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

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Avalon

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

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Lorna's Silence

Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs... See full summary »

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Oranges and Sunshine

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

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Come Live With Me

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

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Man Push Cart

A night in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan.

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Black Legion

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

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Katzelmacher

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "... See full summary »

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Bread and Roses

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

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Hester Street

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ... See full summary »

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An American Tail

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.

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From Nowhere

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.

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The Burning Plain

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.

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My Beautiful Laundrette

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

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