Immigrant Life
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    Movies

    The Claim (2000)

    Twenty years after a town's founder (Peter Mullan) trades his wife and daughter for a gold claim,...

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    In America (2003)

    A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from...

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    The Terminal (2004)

    Unauthorized to enter the United States, an Eastern European (Tom Hanks) befriends a flight...

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    Movies

    Heaven's Gate (1980)

    A well-educated marshal (Kris Kristofferson) defends immigrant settlers against cattle barons in...

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    The Edge of Heaven (2008)

    A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

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    Sugar (2009)

    Miguel Santos, a.k.a Azucar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macoris, struggles to make it to...

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    Movies

    Amreeka (2009)

    Muna, a single mother leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting...

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    Movies

    David & Layla (2007)

    A Jewish man and a Muslim woman must overcome family and religious obstacles to find love with each...

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    Movies

    Ask the Dust (2006)

    In Depression-era Los Angeles, a fiery Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) who wants to improve her lot...

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    Movies

    Fast Food Nation (2006)

    A marketing executive (Greg Kinnear) for a burger chain investigates when tests show that meat...

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    Little Odessa (1995)

    A job returns a Russian-Jewish hit man (Tim Roth) to his family (Edward Furlong) and the Mafia in...

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    Movies

    The Godfather, Part II (1974)

    Michael Corleone rules his father's criminal empire, while flashbacks recall young Vito's climb to...

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    Movies

    Head On (2005)

    After meeting at a psychiatric clinic, two troubled Turks (Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli) agree to a...

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    Movies

    It's a Free World... (2008)

    After being fired from her job, Angie teams with her friend to find employment for immigrants.

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    Movies

    588 Rue Paradis

    An Armenian playwright finds success in his profession at the expense of his ethnic and familial...

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    The Demi-Paradise

    The Russian inventor (Laurence Olivier) of a new marine propeller falls in love with a woman...

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    Breaking and Entering (2006)

    An office break-in leads to an affair between a landscape architect (Jude Law) in the middle of a...

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    Movies

    The Basket (2000)

    In the midst of World War I, the people in a small Pacific Northwest town are tired, confused and...

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    Movies

    West Side Story (1961)

    Rival New York City gangs affect the love of a young man (Richard Beymer) and woman (Natalie Wood)...

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    Movies

    Fires Within (1991)

    After eight years, a Cuban exile (Jimmy Smits) joins his wife (Greta Scacchi) and daughter in Miami,...

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    Movies

    Sangre de mi sangre (2008)

    A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to find his father, but someone who wants the family...

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    Sin Nombre (2009)

    A Honduran teenager (Paulina Gaitan) joins a Mexican gangmember (Edgar Flores) as both ride atop an...

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    Movies

    The Joy Luck Club (1993)

    Based on Amy Tan's best seller about the relationships of a group of Chinese women with their...

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    Princesas (2006)

    Two prostitutes (Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez) in Madrid, initially rivals, bond over their common...

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    Movies

    Golden Door (2007)

    An Italian (Vincenzo Amato) and his two sons leave their rural home in Sicily and begin an exciting...

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    Movies

    Black Legion (1937)

    An autoworker (Humphrey Bogart) loses a promotion to an immigrant and joins a black-robed hate...

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    Movies

    The Secret of the Grain (2008)

    In the rustic port of Sete in southeastern France, Slimane has worked in the same shipyard job for...

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    Movies

    House of Sand and Fog (2003)

    Mistakenly evicted from her house, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) tries to reobtain it from the new...

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    Movies

    Sorry, Haters (2006)

    A Muslim cabbie (Abdellatif Kechiche) is suspicious of an American woman's (Robin Wright Penn)...

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    Movies

    Flower Drum Song (1961)

    Residents (Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki) of San Francisco's Chinatown mix East with West...

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    Movies

    Dirty Pretty Things (2003)

    A hotel receptionist (Sergi López) runs a racket where desperate immigrants each give up a kidney in...

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    Far and Away (1992)

    An Irish farmer (Tom Cruise) and his landlord's daughter (Nicole Kidman) come to 1890s Boston, where...

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    Ghosts

    A Chinese woman (Ai Qin Lin) faces more exploitation after paying $25,000 to sneak into England.

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    Movies

    Beautiful Country (2005)

    A Vietnamese youth (Damien Nguyen) of mixed race undertakes an arduous journey to the United States...

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    Movies

    Crossing Over (2009)

    An immigration official (Harrison Ford) and his associates become personally involved in the lives...

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    Movies

    America, America (1963)

    At the turn of the century, a young Greek man embarks from his Turkish village on a trek to his...

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    Movies

    The Namesake (2007)

    The son (Kal Penn) of East Indian immigrants (Tabu, Irrfan Khan) feels caught between American...

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    Movies

    Gangs of New York (2002)

    During the era of Tammany Hall's sway, a young man (Leonardo DiCaprio) vows vengeance on the vicious...

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    Movies

    Fraulein (2008)

    A Bosnian woman shakes up the lives of two cafeteria workers in Zurich.

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    Movies

    I Remember Mama (1948)

    A writer (Barbara Bel Geddes) recalls her Norwegian mother (Irene Dunne) and family in circa-1900...

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    Movies

    Anna Ascends

    Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of...

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    Movies

    Brick Lane (2008)

    Stuck in a loveless arranged marriage, a Muslim seamstress (Tannishtha Chatterjee) in London embarks...

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    People

    Samuel Ornitz

    The son of a prosperous New York dry-goods merchant, Samuel Ornitz could have followed the lead of...

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    Movies

    Kissed by Winter

    After her son is hospitalized, a doctor cheats on her husband with a snow plow driver who is a...

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    Movies

    Red Doors (2006)

    The patriarch (Tzi Ma) of a Chinese-American family plans to get away from it all when he retires,...

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    Movies

    Siao Yu

    Chinese green-card marriage story set among the Chinese and Italian communities in lower Manhattan.

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    Movies

    Someone Else's America (1996)

    Alonso is a Spanish emigre who has moved to America full of hopes and dreams for a better life. Now...

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    Movies

    Soul Survivor (1995)

    A young Black man struggles to find a job in Canada.

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    Movies

    Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)

    Indian immigrant and graduate student, Hari Patel, has a hard time adjusting to life in his new home...

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    Movies

    Room to Rent

    An Egyptian screenwriter (Said Taghmaoui) in England takes on assorted jobs to earn enough money to...