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, touching, emotional, sincere and melancholic films and TV shows about / with immigrant, society, culture clash, immigration, migration, loneliness, mentor, friendship, storytelling and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as immigrants: Golden Door (2006), Amreeka (2009), The Immigrant (2013), Brooklyn (2015), The City (1998), The Terminal (2004), Bread and Roses (2000), Under the Same Moon (2007), Fresh Off the Boat (2015), Pelle the Conqueror (1987).
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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:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, progress, social relations, starting over, society, italian immigrant, tradition, superstition, family history, parent child relationship, hopes, emigrant ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, turn of the century ...
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, europe, palermo italy ...
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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:
brother in law sister in law relationship, immigrant, single parent, job seeking, starting over, culture clash, society, social relations, hopes, family in crisis, arab israeli conflict, financial problem ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
palestine, illinois, middle east, usa, israel
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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, emotional, harsh, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, brothel, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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158K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
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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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, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, storytelling, poverty, school, father daughter relationship, money, photographer, hobo, tramp ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, mexico, usa, tokyo, new jersey ...
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531K
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, sincere, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, 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, politics, working class, janitor, relationships, deportation, fighting the system, working conditions, attorney, cleaning lady, union ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico city, tijuana mexico, guatemala ...
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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, sweet, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, young boy, runaway, survival, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, society, custody, immigration, family drama ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, usa, california ...
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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:
humorous, funny, sitcom, mumblecore, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child, middle school, family relations, marriage, immigrant, restaurant, parents and children, family life, youth, culture clash, kids and family, food ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
florida, taiwan, usa, orlando florida
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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, disturbing, compassionate, meditative, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, boy, farm, poverty, immigrant, corporal punishment, working class, bullying, children, youth, nordic ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, 1870s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
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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, u.s. mexico border, single father, truck, father son relationship, theft, 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, south america ...
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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, stylized, lyrical, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immigrant, true love, fall in love, unrequited love, self discovery, love and romance, family relations, youth, human nature, society, parents and children, muslim ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
iran, middle east, japan, persia, tehran iran ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 116 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:
emotional, touching, breathtaking, lyrical, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, tragic event, lgbtq, prostitute, student, loss of daughter, multiple storylines, rebelliousness, lgbt, coincidence, prison, migration ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
germany, turkey, hamburg germany, middle east, istanbul turkey ...
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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, philosophical ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
survival, refugee, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, self sacrifice, courage, civil war, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
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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, tense, suspenseful, harsh, grim ...
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, england, nigeria, britain, europe ...
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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, humorous, captivating, adult cartoon, psychedelic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
absurd humor, boss and employee, dark humor, friendship, city life, workplace romance, adult humor, monster, imaginary, silly humor, immigrant, social worker ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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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:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, independent film
Plot:
immigrant, racism, racial discrimination, love affair, society, human nature, realism, male female relationship, fiancee, refugee, migration, empathy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, russia, england, britain
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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, thought provoking, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
immigrant, self discovery, hopes, friendship, women, chess, haunted by the past, culture clash, feminist, parents and children, human nature, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, china, bay area, usa, asia ...
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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:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, hopes, loneliness, food, society, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, sadness, survival, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, usa, barcelona, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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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, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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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:
inspirational, bleak, sincere, road movie, political ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, hopes, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, tehran iran, pakistan ...
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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:
depressing, philosophical, touching, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, life, professor, destiny, loneliness, self discovery, friendship, jazz, arrest, lawyer, midlife crisis, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, connecticut, michigan, senegal, manhattan new york city ...
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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, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, illegal immigration, teenage boy, little boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
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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, atmospheric, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
depression, tragedy, eviction, immigrant, life is a bitch, nude, american dream, justice, visceral, relationships, tragic event, real estate ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, persia, bay area, usa, california ...
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105K
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India, USA
Duration: 189 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, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
poverty, discrimination, immigrant, self discovery, human spirit, follow your dream, obsessive quest, journey, social differences, homecoming, change of heart, social issues ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, asia
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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, period piece, controversial, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, immigrant, cattle ranch, epic battle, ranch, skinny dipping, prostitute, brothel, culture clash, gunfight, controversy, female nudity ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 1980, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, harvard university, america ...
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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, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
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:
sincere, touching, compassionate, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
teacher, elementary school, immigrant, suicide, coming of age, teachers and students, youth, coping, children, exile, tragedy, precocious child ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
canada, france, ontario canada, montreal, algeria ...
Is relevant?
209K
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:
grindhouse, stylized, parody, dark comedy, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
hitman, vigilante, revenge, blood, machete, corruption, vengeance, violence, dark humor, tough guy, bodyguard, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, austin texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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