Movies: Immigration

  • 1985
    My Beautiful Laundrette

    My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    6.71985HD

    A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads....

    My Beautiful Laundrette
  • 1990
    Green Card

    Green Card (1990)

    Green Card

    6.11990HD

    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 in the co...

    Green Card
  • 2019
    Saint Judy

    Saint Judy (2019)

    Saint Judy

    6.82019HD

    The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives....

    Saint Judy
  • 1992
    Autumn Moon

    Autumn Moon (1992)

    Autumn Moon

    6.11992HD

    A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emigrates to Canada....

    Autumn Moon
  • 2012
    Mai Ratima

    Mai Ratima (2012)

    Mai Ratima

    7.42012HD

    Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her Ko...

    Mai Ratima
  • 2018
    Echo

    Echo (2018)

    Echo

    6.32018HD

    Loss and loneliness linger on a thread that connects two ageing parents far away from each other through a fatal accident. A woman in Germany starts a journey to explore the life of an illegal immigrant and finds her loneliness, and an old man in Kos...

    Echo
  • 2021
    Snakehead

    Snakehead (2021)

    Snakehead

    62021HD

    Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon Ts...

    Snakehead
  • 2014
    My Life in China

    My Life in China (2014)

    My Life in China

    92014HD

    In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for a better life. How did they hold onto their identity? How did they adapt to their new life? Every fa...

    My Life in China
  • 2024
    Because I Hate Korea

    Because I Hate Korea (2024)

    Because I Hate Korea

    82024HD

    Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myoung. Yet instead of feeling content, she constantly faces uncertainty, confusion and anxiety. While struggling with personal relationships and life's w...

    Because I Hate Korea
  • 2005
    Princesses

    Princesses (2005)

    Princesses

    6.72005HD

    Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye...

    Princesses
  • 1995
    The Perez Family

    The Perez Family (1995)

    The Perez Family

    6.21995HD

    In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual re...

    The Perez Family
  • 1985
    Hell Train

    Hell Train (1985)

    Hell Train

    5.41985HD

    Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-...

    Hell Train
  • 2003
    In America

    In America (2003)

    In America

    7.12003HD

    A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child....

    In America
  • 2004
    Ae Fond Kiss...

    Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)

    Ae Fond Kiss...

    6.52004HD

    A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher....

    Ae Fond Kiss...
  • 2005
    Live and Become

    Live and Become (2005)

    Live and Become

    7.42005HD

    In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy....

    Live and Become
  • 2014
    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates (2014)

    Hippocrates

    6.52014HD

    Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but pres...

    Hippocrates
  • 2017
    Night Working

    Night Working (2017)

    Night Working

    02017HD

    Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on th...

    Night Working
  • 2017
    Lowlife

    Lowlife (2017)

    Lowlife

    6.22017HD

    The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong....

    Lowlife
  • 2023
    A Lien

    A Lien (2023)

    A Lien

    7.32023HD

    On the day of their green card interview, a young couple confronts a dangerous immigration process....

    A Lien
  • 1998
    Short Sharp Shock

    Short Sharp Shock (1998)

    Short Sharp Shock

    6.71998HD

    Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a d...

    Short Sharp Shock