Immigrant Life
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    Flower Drum Song (1961)

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

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    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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    Beautiful Country (2005)

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

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    Crossing Over (2009)

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

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    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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    The Namesake (2007)

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

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    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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    Fraulein (2008)

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

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    I Remember Mama (1948)

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

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    Anna Ascends

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

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    Brick Lane (2008)

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

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    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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    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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    Siao Yu

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

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    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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    Soul Survivor (1995)

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

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    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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    Room to Rent

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

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    Inch'Allah Dimanche

    An Algerian (Fejria Deliba) visits her husband (Zinedine Soualem) in France but discovers they are...

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    Masala (1993)

    A Toronto family of East Indian immigrants seeks to gain a foothold in the Canadian world in this...

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    Mississippi Masala (1992)

    People resent the romance of a black man (Denzel Washington) and an Indian woman (Sarita Choudhury)...

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    Avalon (1990)

    Barry Levinson's saga of a Jewish immigrant family's desire to preserve its heritage while living...

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    Nybyggarna (1972)

    The life of an immigrant family from Sweden in the Minnesota's forests, during mid 19th century

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    Kasbah

    Mario, a foreigner living in Morocco, is accused of murdering his half sister Laura, after she goes...

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    Streets of Gold (1986)

    Klaus Maria Brandauer stars in this drama as Alek Neuman, a one-time boxing champion in the Soviet...

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    Blood and Bones

    A cunning but violent man (Beat Takeshi) builds a criminal empire upon the bones of a former...

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    Lettere Dal Sahara

    The journey made by a Senegalese immigrant to Italy, leaving from Lampedusa before ending up in...

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    Sweet Land (2006)

    A German mail-order bride in 1920s Minnesota encounters suspicion and scorn when she arrives to...