Immigration movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant immigration movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, captivating, serious, sentimental and sincere films and TV shows about / with immigration, society, immigrant, migration, family relations, refugee, love, couples, love and romance and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as immigration: Banat (The Journey) (2015), The Wolves (2019), The Immigrant (2013), Brooklyn (2015), Like Crazy (2011), Green Card (1990), Marussia (2013), Lucky Miles (2007), East/West (1999), Besieged (1998).

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Banat (The Journey) (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, Bulgaria
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, road movie
Plot: relationships, immigration, unemployment, migration, love affair, love story, love interest, couple relations, in love, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance ...
Place: romania, italy
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 7.2
 1K
The Wolves (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.
Style: controversial, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, immigration, grownups, illegal immigration, immigrant family, bigger dreams, motive, mother son relationship, secret, female protagonist, immigrant, stealing ...
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 6.6
 34K
The Immigrant (2013)
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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 7.5
 150K
Brooklyn (2015)
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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 6.6
 63K
Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, couples, bittersweet, immigration, love, parents, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, usa, los angeles
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 6.3
 26K
Green Card (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay ...
Style: romantic comedy, light, romantic, rom com, happy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: marriage of convenience, love, immigration, immigrant, pretend relationship, lawyer, destiny, enemies to lovers, green card, fake relationship, fake marriage, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.0
 97
Marussia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot: childhood, society, immigration, family relations, family problems, poverty, single parent, family in crisis, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, exile, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 7.1
 748
Lucky Miles (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to ...
Style: entertaining, sentimental, humorous, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot: journey, desert, immigration, refugee, survival, security, family relations, australian outback, father son relationship, trapped, survivor, migration ...
Place: australia, indonesia, iraq, cambodia
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 7.4
 5K
East/West (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) ...
Style: touching, heartbreaking, realistic, harsh, sentimental ...
Plot: iron curtain, kgb, propaganda, survival, freedom, brutality, stalinism, destiny, tragedy, communism, brainwashing, love story ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946
Place: russia, france, ussr, soviet union, europe ...
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 6.8
 5K
Besieged (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, ...
Style: emotional, erotic, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
Plot: sensuality, interracial relations, unrequited love, white male black female relationship, immigration, jail, pianist, politics, social differences, fall in love, opposites attract, society ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rome italy, africa, italy, europe
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The Emigrants (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
Style: epic, romantic, inspirational, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, emigration, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, refugee, nordic, boat, death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1840s, 1850s
Place: minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
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 7.7
 66K
Night on Earth (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Style: anthology, intellectual, independent film, dark comedy, melancholic ...
Plot: taxi, culture clash, night, taxi driver, storytelling, immigration, multiple storylines, blindness, cigarette smoking, nightlife, conversation, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: paris france, rome italy, new york, helsinki finland, los angeles ...
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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America America (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style: aesthetic, road movie, art house, social, existential ...
Plot: greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, social injustice, time travel, yacht, refugee ...
Time: 19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place: greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey ...
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 6.7
 3K
Terraferma (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, sincere, touching
Plot: tourist, moral dilemma, society, refugee, family in crisis, immigration, family relations, family problems, rules and policies, family life, ocean, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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Potato Dreams of America (2021)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: american dream, gay, immigration, lgbt, gay teenager, gay interest, coming of age, mother son relationship, immigrant, relocation, society, dream ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, russia, soviet union, ussr
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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racism, culture clash, forbidden love, immigrant, prejudice, marriage, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, social commentary ...
Time: year 2004
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
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 7.7
 6K
The North (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Style: political, depressing, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, immigration, magic realism, culture clash, indigenous people, chicano, working class, american dream, strike, border, racism, tragedy ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: los angeles, mexico, guatemala, latin america, usa ...
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 7.7
 44K
In America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Plot: childhood, redemption, immigrant, immigration, artist, loss of son, starting over, dying, children, society, acceptance, family problems ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
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 6.5
 2K
Saint Judy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, factual
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, immigration, courtroom drama, court case, evidence, court, trial, prejudice, courage, justice, female friendship, destiny ...
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 5.6
 416
America (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: América is a Brazilian telenovela that was originally broadcast in 2005 by Rede Globo. The telenovela focused on the life of an illegal immigrant to the United States and the lives of those she left behind in Brazil. It stars Deborah Secco and ...
Style: novela, soap opera, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: immigration, illegal immigration, lolita, dream, illegal immigrant, changing lives, social problems, emigrant, countryside, aspiration, emigration, female protagonist ...
Place: mexico, brazil, miami, rio de janeiro
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For Here or to Go? (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring Indian tech entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley finds himself unexpectedly battling the bizarre American immigration system to keep his dream alive or prepare to return home forever.
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous
Plot: immigration, entrepreneurship, cultural difference, immigrant, social differences, ambitious man, coping, businessman, direction and purpose, lifestyle, blind ambition, ambition ...
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Visions of Europe (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Style: anthology, disturbing, captivating, humorous
Plot: european union, immigration, children, social problems, social issues, lifestyle, social differences, society, bureaucracy, environmental, essay
Place: europe
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 8.0
 5K
The New Land (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden
Duration: 202 min.
Story: Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they arrive there, each family searches a place to build a home. Kristina and Karl-Oskar ...
Style: epic, captivating, serious, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: settler, immigration, immigrant, farmer, migration, nordic, american civil war, native american, food, intrigue, redsploitation, water ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 1850s, 1860s
Place: minnesota, america, usa
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
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 ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 5K
Adu (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, tear jerker
Plot: tribe, immigration, assassination, society, family problems, financial problem, money problems, dysfunctional family, social relations, tragic event, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place: africa, spain, senegal
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 984
Sunnyside (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to ...
Style: captivating, humorous, entertaining, sincere, light
Plot: immigration, friendship, society, adaptation, rivalry, destiny, youth, love, lifestyle, life philosophy, disorder, city
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 493
Australia Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of ...
Style: multicultural, touching, sincere, suspense, steamy ...
Plot: nationalism, sociology, human trafficking, immigration, criminal underworld, racial tension, manhunt, gang, on the run, racist, society, culture ...
Time: 2010s
Place: australia, austria, china, oceania
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 5.6
 3K
Lottery (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails ...
Style: psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, suspense ...
Plot: aspiration, family relations, immigration, green card, love, islam, american dream, troubled marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, usa, persia
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story: It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style: epic, rough, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, gang, gangster, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, racism, crime boss, betrayal, violent, courage, gang war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, edwardian era, 50s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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