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parent child relationship

♡ 4

73%

Romance

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.

We Are Young. We Are Strong.

German

7.0

♡ 10

77%

Burhan Qurbani Director

Aaron Le as Minh

Thorsten Merten as Peter

Jonas Nay as Stefan

Matthias Brenner as Wäschereichef

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women, and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol of xenophobia in the just-reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

Amira & Sam

6.2

♡ 15

79%

Sean Mullin Director

Dina Shihabi as Amira

Paul Wesley as Charlie

Martin Starr as Sam

Meg Gibson as VA Administrator

Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

Most Beautiful Island

5.8

♡ 24

94%

inspired by true events

perversion

spider

Thriller

Ana Asensio Director

Miriam A. Hyman as Bikie

John Speredakos as George

Alix Elias as Mrs. Feldman

Larry Fessenden as Rudy

Chronicling one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana’s day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome, unforeseeable extremes.

The Eternal Road

Finnish

7.0

♡ 30

60%

Action

based on novel or book

Antti-Jussi Annila Director

Tommi Korpela as Jussi Ketola

Amalia Holm as Kathy

Sidse Babett Knudsen as Sara

Irina Björklund as Sofia

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

Shelter

6.5

♡ 29

48%

manhattan, new york city

nigerian

Paul Bettany Director

Gameela Wright as Advisor

Andrew Polk as Doctor

Jennifer Connelly as Hannah

Anthony Mackie as Tahir

Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.

Die Schweizermacher

1978

German

7.1

♡ 6

Rolf Lyssy Director

Walo Lüönd as Max Bodmer

Beatrice Kessler as Milena Vakulic

Emil Steinberger as Moritz Fischer

Bill Ramsey as William S. Tall

This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.

Romance in Manhattan

1934

6.8

♡ 6

57%

Stephen Roberts Director

Irving Bacon as Counterman

Harold Goodwin as Doctor at Police Station

Francis Lederer as Karel Novak

Ginger Rogers as Sylvia Dennis

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.

The Garden Left Behind

2019

6.0

♡ 5

91%

Flavio Alves Director

Brock Yurich as Chester

Edward Asner as Dr. Cleary

Michael Madsen as Kevin

Danny Flaherty as Oscar

Traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.

The Other Side of the Wall

Spanish

7.6

♡ 3

Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, teenage siblings Rocío and Ale must take over care of their two younger siblings after their mother is sentenced to prison on dubious grounds. Tensions grow between the pair as the decision must be made on whether to stay together in Mexico or split the family up to cross into the US to work.

Avalon

1990

7.2

♡ 10

86%

Barry Levinson Director

Neil Kirk as Herbie

Aidan Quinn as Jules Kaye

Elijah Wood as Michael Kaye

George Fenneman as Self

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Spanglish

2004

husband wife relationship

6.4

♡ 80

54%

James L. Brooks Director

Téa Leoni as Deborah Clasky

Adam Sandler as John Clasky

Aimee Garcia as Narrator

Sarah Hyland as Sleepover Friend

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.

Unlucky Plaza

6.2

♡ 1

58%

Action

based on a true story

Ken Kwek Director

Petrina Kow as English reporter Rui Min

Rui Min as Mandarin reporter

Tracy Phillips as News anchor

Nicholas Lim as Officer Wong

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.

En el séptimo día

Spanish

7.1

♡ 1

Jim McKay Director

Alex Halpern as Barman

Bryan Goluboff as Grumpy Brownstone Guy

Donal Brophy as Ray

Fiamma Piacentini as Waiter

A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.

Reefa

2021

4.8

♡ 1

89%

Jessica Kavana Dornbusch Director

Francesca Chillemi as Gabrielle

Cinthya Carmona as Offir

Ellen Marguerite Cullivan as Protester

Gregg Weiner as Vet

Reefa Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship.

A Most Wanted Man

6.7

♡ 78

86%

65%

Action

based on novel or book

Anton Corbijn Director

Rachel McAdams as Annabel Richter

Daniel Brühl as Maximilian

Vedat Erincin as Storekeeper

Willem Dafoe as Tommy Brue

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.

The Yellow Sea

2010

Korean

7.3

♡ 31

88%

Hong-jin Na Director

Jo Ha-seok as Dog seller

Jung-woo Ha as Gu-nam

Yoo-Mi Lee as Tae-Won's Daughter

Park Yoon-Ho as Ulsan broker

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

3 Bad Men

1926

7.5

♡ 4

John Ford Director

George O'Brien as Dan O'Malley

Lou Tellegen as Layne Hunter

Olive Borden as Lee Carleton

Jay Hunt as Nat Lucas

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Alamo Bay

1985

6.1

♡ 4

36%

Louis Malle Director

Caroline Williams as Diane

Amy Madigan as Glory

William Frankfather as Mac

Ed Harris as Shang

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Amaraica

2020