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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chand arrives in Brampton, Ontario to meet her new husband, she leaves behind a loving family and supportive community. Now, in a new country, she finds herself living in a modest suburban home with seven other people and two part-time tenants. ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, atmospheric, multicultural ...
Plot:
immigrant, couple relations, destructive relationship, self discovery, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, couples, hopes, society, redemption, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, india, asia, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, follow your dream, human spirit, friendship, social decay, hopes, society, bittersweet, migration, mexican american border, border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The ...
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, orphan, loveless marriage, existentialism, older man younger woman relationship, fish out of water, social differences, wedding planning, love and romance, culture clash, friendship ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1994, 1920s, 19th century
Place:
hawaii, japan, asia, usa, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, erotic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illegal prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, immigrant, voyeur, au pair, life is a bitch, starting over, self discovery, job seeking, hopes, misfit ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, europe, austria, central europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, restaurant, family business, fall in love, working class, society, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, love triangle, cheating, food, pizzeria ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 70s, 2000s, 60s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
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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:
emotional, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, wedding, lgbtq, glbt, marriage of convenience, marriage, immigrant, gay couple, love triangle, sexuality, food, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, taiwan, manhattan new york city, asia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sweet, sincere, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, citizenship, immigrant, prejudice, mail order bride, friendship, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time:
1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
minnesota, usa, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irena, a Ukrainian woman coming to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, prostitute, immigrant, dark past, housekeeper, haunted by the past, family relations, uncover truth, nanny, european, murder, audition ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, ukraine, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.
Style:
humorous, touching, funny, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, gay couple, immigrant, culture clash, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, meet the parents, gay relationship, glbt, happy ending, gay brother, gay son ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
canada, montreal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sad ...
Plot:
immigrant, politics, culture clash, working class, bosnian war, war, wartime, chase, refugee, british, dysfunctional family, honest ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
london, england, bosnia, balkan, cyprus ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, adolescence, family bonds, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
california, budapest, europe, usa, austria ...
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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: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ip Man 4 is an upcoming Hong Kong biographical martial arts film directed by Wilson Yip and produced by Raymond Wong. It is the fourth in the Ip Man film series based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster of the same name and features Donnie Yen ...
Style:
inspirational, poignant, saga, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, master warrior, human spirit, fight, hand to hand combat, medieval, immigrant, duel, warrior, philosophy ...
Time:
2010s, 60s
Place:
hong kong, china, usa, san francisco, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style:
sexy, political, brutal, harsh, retro ...
Plot:
skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violent, brutality, sex scene, violence, immigrant, strangulation, vandalism, profanity ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
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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: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, society, city life, music, social misfits, fall in love, love, african, rivalry, couples, hustler, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, west africa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, culinary ...
Plot:
working class, immigrant, food, cooking, fish, fishing boat, shipyard, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, middle east, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, depressing, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
death sentence, factory worker, destiny, blindness, life is a bitch, tragedy, dancing, immigrant, secret, murder, hanging, tragic hero ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place:
nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: Sweden, Czech Republic, UK, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
orphan, childhood trauma, child romance, immigrant, young heroes, fish out of water, youth, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, parents and children, boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, europe, lebanon, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, woman urinating, cultural difference, deaf girl, desert, mexican border, sex, death, destiny, language barrier, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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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, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, marriage of convenience, destiny, immigration, green card, immigrant, lawyer, sex scene, fake marriage, fake relationship, cons and scams, selfie ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city, london ...
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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, sincere, sentimental, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
childhood, redemption, immigrant, immigration, artist, loss of son, starting over, dying, children, society, overcoming, acceptance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, surreal, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
refugee, poverty, friendship, immigrant, human spirit, bohemian life, working class, migrant, elderly, society, misfit, social misfits ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, year 2009, 70s ...
Place:
france, africa, europe, normandy, paris france ...
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, working class, unemployment, culture clash, deportation, interracial friendship, unlikely hero, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
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