Immigrant movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant immigrant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, thought provoking, melancholic and dramatic films and TV shows about / with immigrant, society, mentor, immigration, storytelling, runaway, dialogue, culture clash, catastrophe and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as immigrant: Baran (2001), The Best Man's Wedding (2000), It's a Free World... (2007), Samba (2014), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), The Immigrant (2013), A Better Life (2011), Bread and Roses (2000), Sin Nombre (2009), Under the Same Moon (2007).
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Roro and Måns who are best friends, work at the park management and get to do all the shit jobs - clean up duck ponds and pick up dog poop. Roro's Swedish girlfriend Lisa wants to be introduced to his family but he refuses for a long time ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sweet, intense, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, couples, impotence, culture clash, friends, love triangle, sexual dysfunction, wedding planning, nothing goes right, understanding, proposal, family life ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
lebanon, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film focuses on Angie (Kierston Wareing), a working class woman who, after being fired by the agency that she works for, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend Rose (Juliet Ellis). Taking ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, social, epic ...
Plot:
realism, immigrant, working class, injustice, society, employment agency, politics, fighting the system, workplace, legal, life is a bitch, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
britain, england, europe
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18K
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:
touching, sexy, uplifting, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, love story, betrayal, culture clash, brothers, life philosophy, stereotypes, justice, prejudice, social differences, society ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, africa, australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style:
art house, political, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, female nudity, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, old woman, impossible love, forbidden love, male nudity, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central 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, 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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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
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, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
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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, 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 ...
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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: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: China, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
Style:
suspense, scary, saga, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival horror, killing spree, immigrant, social decay, desert, civil war, racist, racism, murder, dystopia, pregnant woman, distopia ...
Time:
2040s, 2020s, near future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, el paso texas, texas, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
supermodel, life is a bitch, immigrant, feminism, injustice, model, fashion, homelessness, un, female protagonist, circumcision, african ...
Time:
year 1997, year 2009, 60s, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, indiana, europe, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 533 min.
TV show
Story:
An anthology series that goes beyond the headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising stories of immigrants in America at a time when they are more relevant than ever.
Style:
anthology, funny, uplifting, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, american dream, family values, parents and children, life is a bitch, stubbornness, education, hard labor, culture, satire, humour ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on ...
Style:
period piece, suspenseful, bleak, depressing, rough ...
Plot:
oil, mafia, american dream, immigrant, corruption, business ethics, organized crime, gangster, twists and turns, orthodox jew, winter, greed ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1981, 80s ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey
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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, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style:
sexy, romantic, light, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, passion, family drama, stereotypes, honest, love affair, fall in love ...
Time:
70s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1972, year 1990
Place:
mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, independent film, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, drug, illegal immigration, women, drug abuse, addiction, character study ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, south america, new jersey, latin america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style:
cerebral, surreal, psychedelic, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, multiverse, fight, alternate universe, surrealism, chinese immigrant, lgbt, immigrant, parallel world, midlife crisis, kung fu, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
brighton
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 151 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, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, food, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, nordic, refugee, boat, death ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1971
Place:
minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, france, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever.
Style:
epic, bleak, saga, crying, serious ...
Plot:
architect, architecture, immigrant, holocaust survivor, library, sex scene, strong sexual content, male rape, oral sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, hand job ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953 ...
Place:
philadelphia, venice, pennsylvania, italy, israel ...
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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: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style:
serious, road movie, touching, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
u.s. mexico border, immigrant, border crossing, on the road, hopes, mexican american border, coming of age, friendship, slaughterhouse, teenage boy, wagon train, follow your dream ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
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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:
independent film, political, depressing, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, magic realism, indigenous people, brother sister relationship, culture clash, chicano, working class, american dream, social commentary, tragedy, strike ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
guatemala, mexico, los angeles, san diego california, latin america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, teen, light, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
soccer, friendship, wedding, football, hinduism, tradition, stereotypes, feminism, immigrant, coming of age, against the rules, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, hamburg germany, germany ...
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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: 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:
tense, rough, bloody, epic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, gang, vengeance, gangster, organized crime, street gang, violence, betrayal, racism, courage, violent, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, 50s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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