For a Moment, Freedom (2008) | 7.4 | |
Brooklyn (2015) | 7.5 | |
Amreeka (2009) | 7.0 | |
Between Us (2009) | 7.3 | |
The Namesake (2006) | 7.5 |
Immigrants movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant immigrants movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional and social films and TV shows about / with immigrant, society, migration, immigration, family relations, refugee, dancing, friendship, father son relationship and ethnicity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
immigrants
TOP 10 movies tagged as immigrants: Amreeka (2009), Golden Door (2006), The Immigrant (2013), Brooklyn (2015), The Terminal (2004), Bread and Roses (2000), The City (1998), A Better Life (2011), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Fresh Off the Boat (2015).
Best films
New films
1899 (2022) | 7.3 | |
Harga (2021) | 9.0 | |
Richelieu (2023) | 7.6 | |
El cuartito (2021) | 5.7 | |
Jagame Thandhiram (2021) | 5.8 |
List of immigrants movies
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Kuwait, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, single parent, job seeking, starting over, culture clash, society, social relations, brother in law sister in law relationship, hopes, family in crisis, financial problem, youth ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
palestine, illinois, middle east, usa, israel
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, hopes, social relations, starting over, society, progress, tradition, superstition, italian immigrant, parent child relationship, family history, emigration ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, 1900s ...
Place:
sicily, usa, italy, new york, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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150K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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492K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sweet, sincere, feel good, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, culture clash, stranded, loneliness, happy ending, fish out of water, fictional country, passenger, immigrant, nothing goes right, jazz, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, eastern europe, romania ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed ...
Style:
realistic, political, melancholic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
labor union, immigrant, working class, deportation, janitor, politics, fighting the system, workplace, relationships, union, society, cleaning lady ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, tijuana mexico, mexico city ...
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374
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style:
black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, mexico, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot:
immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, compassionate, disturbing, meditative ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, boy, immigrant, poverty, working class, farm, children, bullying, corporal punishment, youth, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, mumblecore, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child, family relations, middle school, marriage, immigrant, restaurant, family life, parents and children, youth, society, culture clash, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
usa, florida, taiwan, orlando florida
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
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9K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and ...
Style:
touching, emotional, lyrical, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immigrant, fall in love, self discovery, love and romance, family relations, youth, human nature, society, unrequited love, parents and children, muslim, refugee ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's ...
Style:
touching, emotional, lyrical, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
immigrant, tragic event, prostitute, student, loss of daughter, multiple storylines, rebelliousness, lgbt, coincidence, prison, migration, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
germany, turkey, hamburg germany, middle east, balkan ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, immigrant, women, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, feminist, culture clash, parents and children, human nature, love, coming of age ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, china, bay area, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, grim, neo noir ...
Plot:
immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, nigeria, england, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film
Plot:
immigrant, racism, love affair, society, human nature, realism, male female relationship, racial discrimination, fiancee, migration, refugee, mother son relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, europe, england, britain
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style:
bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Ugly Americans is an American animated sitcom created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The program focuses on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker employed by the Department of Integration, in an alternate reality version of New ...
Style:
adult animation, adult cartoon, humorous, captivating, animated comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
boss and employee, absurd humor, city life, workplace romance, friendship, monster, zombie, imaginary, silly humor, immigrant, social worker, alternate reality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Style:
realistic, depressing, touching, independent film, philosophical ...
Plot:
immigrant, professor, life, friendship, self discovery, loneliness, society, jazz, lawyer, existentialism, midlife crisis, complex characters ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, michigan, connecticut, senegal, syria ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, suspense, serious, visual ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, revenge, mobster, ambition, melancholy, mob boss, corruption, corrupt politician, gangster, murder ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1940s, year 1974 ...
Place:
cuba, new york, las vegas, italy, sicily ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
refugee, survival, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, courage, civil war, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however,the pattern ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, informative ...
Plot:
immigrant, loneliness, society, hopes, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, survival, sadness, life is a bitch, food ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa, barcelona, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, aesthetic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, migration, exile, past ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, los angeles, usa ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an ...
Style:
bad ending, depressing, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, depression, tragedy, eviction, immigrant, justice, tragic event, suicide, american dream, character study, complex characters, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, persia, bay area, usa, california
Is relevant ?
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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 undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, betrayal, culture clash, love story, brothers, life philosophy, stereotypes, loneliness, prejudice, justice, social differences ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, africa
Is relevant ?
238
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, period piece
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, unfulfillment, prairie, refugee, down on your luck, ship
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, inspirational, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
teacher, immigrant, elementary school, suicide, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, exile, tragedy, children, precocious child, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
canada, france, montreal, algeria, quebec ...
Is relevant ?
204K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Style:
parody, brutal, grindhouse, stylized, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
hitman, blood, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, machete, corruption, immigrant, tough heroes, tough guy, sword fight, violent ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, austin texas
Is relevant ?
98K
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist ...
Style:
touching, sincere, patriotic, inspirational, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
poverty, discrimination, village, immigrant, self discovery, obsessive quest, follow your dream, human spirit, homecoming, journey, social differences, change of heart ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, captivating, talky, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
immigrant, violence, cattle ranch, culture clash, prostitute, brothel, ranch, gunfight, justice, civil war, love triangle, injustice ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1890s, 1870s, 1800s
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, america, harvard university ...
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