Immigrant Movies

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have...

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

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...

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for...

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they...

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...

A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost....

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship,...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a...

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

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

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,...

This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in...

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....

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon....

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is...

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...

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