Green card movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant green card movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, independent film, semi serious, captivating and touching films and TV shows about / with green card, family relations, love and romance, couples, immigrant, love, society, love story, parents and children and father daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as green card: You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011), Resident Aliens (2012), Lemonade (2018), A Paper Wedding (1990), Does This Mean We're Married? (1991), The Rebound (2009), Crystal Swan (2018), High Strung (2016), In the Heights (2021), The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020).

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You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 remote tropical resort where she is kidnapped.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, teen ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: wedding, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, honeymoon, nothing goes right, dancing, gangster, family relations, disorder, couple relations, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tahiti, chicago
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Resident Aliens (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Guam, Philippines
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Guam, U.S.A. Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Alex, a local newspaper photographer, gets into a “green card marriage” with her good friend James, a Guam-born Filipino. Miriam, a former member of the Philippine press and now an ...
Plot: layoff, overseas worker, journalist, hotel, photographer, foreigner, green card, arranged marriage, photojournalist, supervisor
Place: the philippines
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 6.8
 1K
Lemonade (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of ...
Style: suspense, rough, sentimental, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mother son relationship, green card, abuse of power, marriage, culture clash, society, escapades, dishonesty, life is a bitch, family relations, love, violence ...
Place: usa
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A Paper Wedding (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
Style: hispanic
Plot: fake relationship, immigrant, visa, poet, living together, female teacher, wedding dress, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, refugee, green card, arrest ...
Place: montreal, canada
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Does This Mean We're Married? (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration ...
Style: independent film
Plot: marriage of convenience, green card, stand up comedy, con man, gambler, interracial friendship, womanizer, immigration, american abroad, credit card fraud, repossession
Place: paris france
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 6.3
 50K
The Rebound (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a ...
Style: romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, single parent, starting over, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, nanny, age difference, fall in love, infidelity, unfaithful husband, couples ...
Time: year 2009, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, istanbul turkey
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 7.0
 2K
Crystal Swan (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belarus, USA, Germany, Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, brutal, captivating ...
Plot: techno music, countryside, scuffle, bigger dreams, follow your dream, following a dream, individualism, free spirit, daydreamer, wedding, escapades, rape ...
Time: 90s
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 6.3
 10K
High Strung (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, happy
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: dancing, ballet, dancer's life, dance, violin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, unlikely couple, competition, music, breaking point, musician ...
Place: new york
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 7.3
 52K
In the Heights (2021)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
Style: captivating, sincere, entertaining, anamorphic, visual ...
Plot: dancing, city life, ambition, longing, direction and purpose, broadway, social relations, urban setting, society, desire for fame, lifestyle, ambitious man ...
Time: 2020s, year 1943, 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city, puerto rico, manhattan new york city, dominican republic ...
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The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.
Style: captivating, entertaining, feel good, rom com, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: broken heart, breakup, art gallery, chance meeting, masseuse, curator, romantic friendship, male female friendship, new life, love, memorabilia, teenager ...
Time: year 2014, year 2006
Place: harvard university, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, paris france
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 5.7
 5K
The Big Take (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A reclusive movie star hires a private detective after he's anonymously blackmailed. Things turn violent when an aspiring writer is fingered for the crime in a dangerous case of mistaken identity.
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: blackmail, murder, actor, hostage, screenwriter, extortion, private investigator, wiretap, hollywood, film producer, learning the truth, false accusation ...
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 6.4
 4K
Fort Bliss (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: military, female soldier, military base, haunted by the past, military life, family relations, single parent, parents and children, mother son reunion, ex husband ex wife relationship, war, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, usa, new mexico
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 5.5
 80K
Beastly (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, touching, sweet, modern fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy, date night ...
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, teen romance, high school, unlikely couple, teenage love, true love, fall in love, youth, beast, teenager ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Illegal Immigrant (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he'd swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his ...
Style: independent film
Plot: beach, illegal immigrant, robbery, little boy, violence, lawyer, street gang, bail, tragedy, frog, video store, brother sister relationship ...
Place: new york
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 5.8
 168
Nueba Yol 3 (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In director Angel Muniz's incisive follow-up to the 1995 original, genial Dominican immigrant Balbuena (Luisito Marti) remains determined to make the Big Apple his own even as the challenges stack up. This time, he decides that a marriage of ...
Plot: wife, green card, immigration officer, chevrolet
Place: dominican republic, puerto rico, new york
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 6.8
 16
The Pawnshop (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing ...
Plot: pawnshop, sailor, loan shark, death, robbery, hospital, cigarette smoking, television, green card, motorcycle, mirror, security guard ...
Place: the philippines
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 6.4
 357
Nada+ (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Cuba, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens ...
Style: slapstick comedy
Plot: father daughter relationship, love, mother daughter relationship, boss, post office, green card, lottery, immigration, boredom, bureaucracy, happiness, letter ...
Place: cuba, miami, havana cuba
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What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Scarlet Zabrinski, a successful, hard edged, L.A. matchmaker lives in the shadow of her overbearing mother, Ruth Zabrinski who relentlessly tries to find the perfect man for her daughter. Ben Zabrinski, Scarlet's pot smoking brother, an ...
Style: humorous, captivating, emotional, light, uplifting ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, looking for love, couples, family relations, thirtysomething life, life turned upside down, parents and children, audition, unemployment, rivalry, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
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Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
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Someone Else's America (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, immigrant, friends, family problems, estrangement, family life, urban, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, new york, montenegro, serbia, europe ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 871
Love for Rent (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tells the story of Sofia (Angie Cepeda), a Colombian college student struggling with immigration issues in LA, who accepts a $50,000 offer to rent her body and soul and become a surrogate mother to a wealthy couple.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, immigrant, moral dilemma, society, deportation, couples, family relations, adoption, college, retirement home, love and romance, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.9
 437
Little Senegal (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: racism, slavery, family relations, immigrant, obsessive quest, society, family tradition, elderly, family history, interracial relations, ancestry, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south carolina, new york, harlem, usa ...
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Some Kind Of Beautiful (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired ...
Style: romantic, satirical, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: relationships, love triangle, adultery, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, women, sisters, womanizer, introspection, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, mexico
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The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents ...
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, marriage, wedding, immigrant, love triangle, sexuality, lgbt, lgbtq, family drama, glbt, generation gap ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, taiwan, asia, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 3K
Wicked (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cul-de-sac in an oppressive suburb becomes a literal dead end for wife and mother Karen Christianson (Chelsea Field) when she is brutally murdered in her own home. In the wake of the event, Karen's teenage daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles) begins ...
Style: teen horror, detective, independent film, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father daughter incest, incest, unfaithful wife, incestuous relationship, teenager, obsession, serial killer, psychopath, dysfunctional family, erotica, age difference, nymphet ...
Time: 90s
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Waking the Dead (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Style: sexy, intense, stylized, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, supernatural, obsession, election, character study, politician, twists and turns, ghost, love, state affairs, haunted by the past, female nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973, 80s
Place: usa, chile, minneapolis minnesota, vietnam, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 36K
Angel-A (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Style: reflective, philosophical, black and white, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, gangster, disorder, transformation, relationships, redemption, twists and turns, destiny, existentialism ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, y2k
Place: paris france, tibet, europe, france
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 1K
I Do (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gay Brit living in New York is deprived of his immigration status, and risks losing his family and life in the U.S. He marries his lesbian best friend to remain in the country and stay with his family, but things get complicated when he meets the ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, fall in love, discrimination, immigrant, misfit, gender, gays and lesbians, marriage, uncle niece relationship, lgbt, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, spain
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 553
Blue Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 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 them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: redemption, haunted by the past, prostitute, introspection, society, police, racism, xenophobia, murder, journey, released from prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 518
Pittsburgh (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, showbiz, relationship vs career, actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, filmmaking, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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