Immigrant Movies

Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

Documentary exploring the effect of mass immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and...

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend...

In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.

The diaspora of Filipinos around the globe is driven mostly by the economics of supply and demand. The yearning for something better, stability, and...

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Abul Pach and Panther Bior -- as they try to come...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

When Dolores, an undocumented immigrant who lives alone, discovers $3 million in cash, her life takes a sudden and unexpected turn.

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen...

Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documentary follows three immigrants that arrived in...

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...

In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through...

When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an...

An ill Central American single mother risks her life in order to give her son a stable future in the United States.

Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling...

The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.