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) ... ...
7.9/10
Drama
West Germany
1977
108 Minutes
Bruno S. Eva Mattes Clemens Scheitz
busker prostitute pimp neighbor nephew waitress bleak amusing eerie melodramatic berlin prison bar apartment new york city wisconsin immigration displacement loneliness culture shock
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.
7.8/10
Documentary
USA
2009
83 Minutes
migrant immigrant young boy young girl teen boy emotional engaging inspiring intense powerful el salvador honduras mexico train illegal immigration immigration american dream childhood new life family
"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 »
7.8/10
Drama, History
Italy|France
1971
120 Minutes
Gian Maria Volonte Riccardo Cucciolla Cyril Cusack Milo O'Shea Rosanna Fratello Geoffrey Keen
shoemaker peddler prosecutor wife judge defense attorney emotional disheartening shocking intricate boston massachusetts street courtroom factory city nicola sacco bartolomeo vanzetti false accusations immigration
The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
7.7/10
Drama
USA|China
1993
138 Minutes
Rosalind Chao Tamlyn Tomita France Nuyen Vivian Wu Andrew McCarthy Kieu Chinh Tsai Chin Lisa Lu Ming-Na Lauren Tom Chao-Li-Chi
mother grandmother daughter immigrant heartwarming touching emotional china san francisco house family history mother/daughter relationship immigration generational divide cross-cultural romance culture clash growing up sacrifice forbidden love transformation
The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
7.6/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
Taiwan|USA
1993
107 Minutes
Winston Chao May Chin Mitchell Lichtenstein Sihung Lung Ah-Leh Gua Tien Pien
gay man landlord artist boyfriend father mother amusing madcap offbeat emotional manhattan, n.y. apartment banquet hall wedding marriage of convenience homosexuality cultural differences immigration wedding family
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.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1935
92 Minutes
Charles Laughton Mary Boland Charles Ruggles ZaSu Pitts Roland Young Leila Hyams Maude Eburne Lucien Littlefield Leota Lorraine James Burke Dell Henderson
valet earl rancher wife neighbor amusing paris washington state boomtown family home club saloon class distinctions mistaken identity wealth social standing immigration transformation adventure 1910s
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
7.6/10
Comedy
Italy
1974
111 Minutes
Nino Manfredi Anna Karina Johnny Dorelli
italian immigrant industrialist beautiful woman catholic priest lighthearted cheeky sad charming switzerland hotel immigration national identity impersonation loss of job transformation pursuit escape 1970s
Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
7.5/10
Drama
UK
1982
95 Minutes
Jeremy Irons Eugene Lipinski Jirí Stanislav Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz Edward Arthur Denis Holmes Renu Setna David Calder
construction worker government official girl foreman amusing uneasy london warsaw apartment grocery store polish solidarity movement immigration employment escape 1980s
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 »
7.4/10
Romance
USA
1941
115 Minutes
Charles Boyer Olivia de Havilland Paulette Goddard Victor Francen Walter Abel Curt Bois Rosemary DeCamp Eric Feldary Nestor Paiva Eva Puig Micheline Cheirel
gigolo teacher girlfriend melodramatic mexico los angeles border hollywood, calif. immigration love deception escape discovery 1940s
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
7.4/10
Drama
USA|Mexico|France|Morocco|Japan
2006
142 Minutes
Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Gael García Bernal Koji Yakusho Adriana Barraza Rinko Kikuchi Said Tarchani Boubker Ait El Caid Elle Fanning Nathan Gamble Mohamed Akhzam
nanny wife child terrorist widower lawyer gritty suspenseful emotional mexico morocco tokyo nightclub subway accident suicide terrorism marriage depression immigration
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
7.4/10
Documentary
USA
2003
90 Minutes
Megan Mylan
orphan immigrant refugee adoptive father peter nyarol dut santino majok chuor moving emotional inspiring sudan village nebraska north dakota airplane houston culture clash refugees immigration new life war
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 »
7.4/10
Comedy
West Germany
1987
92 Minutes
Marianne Sagebrecht CCH Pounder Jack Palance Christine Kaufmann Monica Calhoun Darron Flagg George Aguilar G. Smokey Campbell
tourist innkeeper tattoo artist painter son magician amusing offbeat emotional mojave desert inn café small town family immigration friendship community love discovery 1980s
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
7.3/10
Drama, History
USA|Ireland
1999
145 Minutes
Emily Watson Robert Carlyle Joe Breen Ciaran Owens Michael Legge Ronnie Masterson Pauline McLynn Liam Carney Eanna Macliam
ira agent irishman teen boy mother father emotional moving melodramatic household brooklyn, n.y. limerick, ireland immigration adolescence alcoholism sexual awakening self-discovery growing up love quest discovery
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 »
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK
2002
94 Minutes
Chiwetel Ejiofor Audrey Tautou Sergi López Sophie Okonedo Benedict Wong Sotigui Kouyaté Abi Gouhad Jean-Philippe Écoffey Jeffery Kissoon Darrell D'Silva
immigrant prostitute refugee manager doctor creepy disheartening thrilling hotel london basement street crime drugs human rights immigration sex black market escape mystery
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.
7.3/10
Drama, History
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Jimmy Smits Esai Morales Eduardo López Rojas Jenny Gago Elpidia Carrillo Lupe Ontiveros Jacob Vargas Jennifer Lopez Maria Canals-Barrera Leon Singer Michael DeLorenzo
father refugee mother police officer immigrant moving dense los angeles family immigration america race relations growing up underdog love 20th century
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.
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1919
87 Minutes
Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess Donald Crisp Arthur Howard Edward Piel Sr. George Andre Beranger Norman Selby Wilbur Higby Karla Schramm Ernest Butterworth Fred Hamer
immigrant waif fighter father manager dark emotional disheartening london shop household apartment buddhism immigration discrimination love abuse death forbidden love quest
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.
7.2/10
Drama
France|Austria|Romania|Germany
2000
118 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Thierry Neuvic Luminita Gheorghiu Ona Lu Yenke Helene Diarra Sepp Bierbechler Alexandre Hamidi
actress teacher romanian teenager photographer beggar dark disheartening paris street subway restaurant film set racial tension immigration random connections unintended consequences trash discovery transformation
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?
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1990
126 Minutes
Armin Mueller-Stahl Aidan Quinn Elizabeth Perkins Leo Fuchs Eve Gordon Lou Jacobi Joan Plowright Kevin Pollak Israel Rubinek Elijah Wood Grant Gelt
immigrant wife son salesman cousin endearing emotional touching united states baltimore immigration culture clash family family history aspirations ambition growing up discovery rise underdog
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.
7.1/10
Drama
Belgium|France|Italy|Germany
2008
95 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Arta Dobroshi Jérémie Renier Fabrizio Rongione Alban Ukaj Morgan Marinne Olivier Gourmet Anton Yakovlev Grigoriy Manukov Mireille Bailly
mobster boyfriend cab driver junkie immigrant bleak dark intense gripping belgium apartment snack bar morality addiction crime marriage immigration temptation fall sacrifice
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 »
7.1/10
Drama, History
UK|Australia
2010
105 Minutes
Emily Watson David Wenham Hugo Weaving Richard Dillane Lorraine Ashbourne Kate Rutter Greg Stone Tara Morice Stuart Wolfenden
social worker victim orphan caregiver bleak disheartening nottingham, england office australia orphanage sweatshop child abuse immigration deception civil rights government cover-up orphans wretched excess quest 1980s
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.
7.1/10
Comedy
USA
1941
86 Minutes
James Stewart Hedy Lamarr Ian Hunter Verree Teasdale Donald Meek Barton MacLane Edward Ashley Ann Codee King Baggot Adeline de Walt Reynolds Si Jenks
showgirl refugee government official publisher writer grandmother airy witty hedonistic new york city apartment office house love triangle marriage publishing divorce immigration deception rivalry
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
2005
86 Minutes
Ahmad Razvi Leticia Dolera Charles Daniel Sandoval Ali Reza Farooq "Duke" Muhammad Panicker Upendran
vendor businessman friend customer pakistani solemn offbeat profound new york city street employment immigration street vending chance meeting poverty loss quest mystery underdog 2000s
A night in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
83 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Dick Foran Erin O'Brien-Moore Ann Sheridan Robert Barrat Helen Flint Joe Sawyer Addison Richards Eddie Acuff Clifford Soubier Paul Harvey
factory director immigrant wife best friend factory worker disturbing disheartening intense midwest factory hate group xenophobia immigration lynching secret plans fall wretched excess revenge 1930s
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.
7.0/10
Drama
West Germany
1969
90 Minutes
Hanna Schygulla Rudolf Waldemar Brem Lilith Ungerer Elga Sorbas Doris Mattes Irm Hermann Peter Moland Hans Hirschmuller Harry Baer Hannes Gromball Rainer Werner Fassbinder
boyfriend girlfriend friend immigrant bleak hedonistic germany munich apartment bar aimless youth bigotry prejudice sex jealousy immigration underdog 1960s
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 »
7.0/10
Drama
UK|France|Germany|Spain|Italy|Switzerland
2000
110 Minutes
Pilar Padilla Adrien Brody Elpidia Carrillo Jack McGee George Lopez Alonso Chavez Monica Rivas Frank Davila
illegal alien janitor union organizer sister wife manager passionate intense engaging los angeles office building dance hall immigration sister relationship labor union family struggle justice forbidden love underdog
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
90 Minutes
Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell Lauren Frost Paul Freedman Zvee Scooler Eda Reiss Merin
immigrant wife son boss landlady emotional gritty new york city ellis island lower east side assimilation immigration judaism culture clash marriage discovery pursuit sacrifice 1900s
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 »
6.9/10
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1986
80 Minutes
mouse cat immigrant rat bird uplifting heartwarming ship new york city russia ellis island immigration friendship family separation american dream quest rescue 1880s
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.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
2016
89 Minutes
Julianne Nicholson Denis O'Hare J. Mallory McCree Octavia Chavez-Richmond Chinasa Ogbuagu Raquel Castro Tashiana Washington Sydni Beaudoin Jim Norton Portia Johnson
professor student administrator girl boy disheartening emotional intricate touching high school classroom apartment bronx, n.y. immigration political asylum family ties american dream discovery escape growing up
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.
6.8/10
Drama
USA|Mexico|Argentina
2008
106 Minutes
Charlize Theron Kim Basinger Jennifer Lawrence Joaquim de Almeida John Corbett Robin Tunney Brett Cullen Danny Pino José María Yazpik J.D. Pardo Tessa Ia
wife teen boy daughter husband lover gripping solemn family home new mexico mexico trailer affair mother/daughter relationship immigration marriage mystery forbidden love quest 2000s
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.
6.8/10
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1985
97 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Gordon Warnecke Saeed Jaffrey Roshan Seth Derrick Branche Shirley Anne Field Rita Wolf Souad Faress
journalist entrepreneur punk drug dealer uneasy engaging laundromat london household immigration homosexuality small business drug trafficking rise love 1980s
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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