All She Wrote

2018

English

5.1

Niki Iliev Director

Gary Dourdan as Aaron

Anton Poriazov as Athlete 1

James Tumminia as Dr. Joseph Napolitano

Bashar Rahal as Michael

When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as he is, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an up and coming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy in order to get Aaron in the ring against him.

Residents of Arcadia

2021

English

5.5

♡ 2

80%

Dom Cutrupi Director

Claudia Absi as Caroline

Jeremy Xu as Jing

Mostafa Shaker as Karim

Michael Stephen Perry as Steve

Steve and Anika are two social media Influencers and entrepreneurs, living an accomplished and ideal life. One night, a man breaks into their backyard, disrupting the peaceful life they had created. The ensuing fear culminates with the appearance of a mysterious countdown on screens and mirrors throughout their home. As the countdown approaches zero, it reveals the true nature of what is hiding behind their perfect lives.

Listen Up!

6.7

Kaveh Tehrani Director

Imran Abdi Kedir as

Liza Haider as Alia

Christian Renè Wold as Dancer in parade

Asim Chaudhry as Onkel Ji

Finally summer vacation. Teenager Mahmoud wants a relaxing summer when Uncle Ji comes to visit from Pakistan. He has to be responsible for being his Oslo guide, and little brother Ali has a secret that turns his whole life upside down.

Raging Grace

2023

English

5.8

♡ 15

95%

Paris Zarcilla Director

Eva-Jane Willis as Grace's Father's Wife

Leanne Best as Katherine

David Hayman as Mr. Garrett

Stephanie Connell as Old Woman

An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.

House of Sand and Fog

2003

English

7.5

♡ 57

74%

san francisco, california

Thriller

tragedy

Vadim Perelman Director

Frances Fisher as Connie Walsh

Jennifer Connelly as Kathy

Ron Eldard as Lester

Carlos Gómez as Lt. Alvarez

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 unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.

The Long Gray Line

1955

English

7.2

♡ 6

90%

John Ford Director

Sean McClory as Dinny Maher

Maureen O'Hara as Mary O'Donnell

Ron Nyman as Recruit

Ken Curtis as Specialty

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

Port of Call

2015

Cn

6.7

♡ 10

100%

71%

Action

based on a true story

Philip Yung Director

Courtney Wu as Bald Man

Aaron Kwok as Detective Chong

Jackie Chan as Drugster

Jacky Cai as Mo-yung

Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16-year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.

Last Resort

2000

English

7.2

♡ 7

94%

Pawel Pawlikowski Director

David Auker as 2nd Council Official

Paddy Considine as Alfie

Adrian Scarborough as Council Official

Perry Benson as Immigration Officer

Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.

Code Unknown

2000

French

7.1

♡ 15

75%

Michael Haneke Director

Juliette Binoche as Anne Laurent

Aïssa Maïga as Black Girl with Blonde Hair

Luminita Gheorghiu as Maria

Nathalie Richard as Mathilde

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

My Family

1995

English

7.3

♡ 7

79%

los angeles, california

marriage

Gregory Nava Director

Valente Rodriguez as Chucho's Friend

Scott Bakula as David Ronconi

Jimmy Smits as Jimmy

Benito Martinez as Young Paco

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.

The Immigrant

2013

English

6.6

♡ 44

85%

James Gray Director

Joaquin Phoenix as Bruno Weiss

Peter McRobbie as Dr. Knox

Marion Cotillard as Ewa Cybulska

Jeremy Renner as Orlando the Magician / Emil

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.

Dancer in the Dark

2000

English

7.9

♡ 61

69%

91%

Action

blindness and impaired vision

Lars von Trier Director

David Morse as Bill Houston

Stellan Skarsgård as Doctor

Peter Stormare as Jeff

Catherine Deneuve as Kathy

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 learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

The Immigrant

1917

English

7.5

♡ 23

89%

Charles Chaplin Director

Frank J. Coleman as Bearded cheating gambler / Restaurant owner

Eric Campbell as Head Waiter

Charles Chaplin as Immigrant

Edna Purviance as Immigrant

A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Yellow Heat

2017

Turkish

5.7

♡ 5

Fikret Reyhan Director

Gökhan Simsek as

Tarik Köksal as

Bayram Polat as Hidir

Serap Gezer as Zehra

In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, dreams of a different future for himself.

Here

2023

French

6.8

♡ 4

95%

Bas Devos Director

Maaike Neuville as Construction Worker

Teodor Corban as Mihai

Saadia Bentaïeb as Saadia

Stefan Gota as Stefan

Stefan, a migrant construction worker living in Brussels, is planning a trip home to his mother in Romania. In preparing for his voyage, he reconnects with local family members over gifted bowls of homemade soup, interacts with strangers, and discovers a revivifying commune with nature. This leads him to an unexpected connection with Shuxiu, a Chinese-Belgian bryologist studying the local moss.

Mr. Majestyk

1974

English

6.7

♡ 20

84%

Richard Fleischer Director

Richard Erdman as Dick Richard

Alex Sharp as Hood

Charles Bronson as Vince Majestyk

Lee Purcell as Wiley

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Bread and Chocolate

1974

Italian

7.4

♡ 3

100%

Franco Brusati Director

Paolo Turco as Gianni

Angelo Boscariol as Italian worker

Giorgio Dolfin as Paolo

Francesco D'Adda as Rudiger

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Cabrini

2024

English

7.3

♡ 53

90%

Alejandro Monteverde Director

Katherine Boecher as American Nurse #2

David Morse as Archbishop Corrigan

Andrew Polk as Deputy Mayor Jenkins

John Lithgow as Mayor Gould

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Man Push Cart

2005

English

7.0

♡ 4

89%

parent child relationship

pop star

Ramin Bahrani Director

Thomas Russo as Customer

Bill Lewis as Final Customer

Mousa Kraish as Guy in Karaoke

Ali Reza as Manish

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 of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

I Remember Mama

1948

English

7.8

♡ 2

100%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

based on play or musical

san francisco, california

George Stevens Director

Ellen Corby as Aunt Trina Halvorsen

Tommy Ivo as Cousin Arne

Barbara Bel Geddes as Katrin Hanson

Oskar Homolka as Uncle Chris

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

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All She Wrote

Residents of Arcadia

Listen Up!

Raging Grace

House of Sand and Fog

The Long Gray Line

Port of Call

Last Resort

Code Unknown

My Family

The Immigrant

Dancer in the Dark

The Immigrant

Yellow Heat

Here

Mr. Majestyk

Bread and Chocolate

Cabrini

Man Push Cart

I Remember Mama