immigration

Potato Dreams of America | United States of America
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IMDB
6.3 (625 votes)
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.

Čuvam te | United Kingdom| Serbia
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The start of the Yugoslav civil war forces freshly graduated Mina to choose between being an obedient daughter or escaping abroad with her lover so he wouldn't serve in the army.

From Mexico to Vietnam: a Chicano story | United States of America
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Budget
100,000.00$
This film tells the story of Jesus Duran, who immigrated from Mexico at a young age, and did his military service in Vietnam where, through a heroic act, he saved his platoon, and was awarded a posthumous medal of honor in 2014.

Taquito Patrol | Germany| United States of America
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Budget
4,500.00$
After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.

Jews of the Wild West
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IMDB
8.3 (6 votes)
“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent not-for-profit project is produced by Electric Yolk Media and directed by award-winning filmmaker Amanda Kinsey. Through on-camera interviews, compelling footage, and historical photographs, the film tells the positive immigration story and highlights the dynamic contributions Jewish Americans made to shaping the Western United States.

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IMDB
5.2 (775 votes)
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 Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America—to find the child that was taken from her. In the end, Sister Tse must draw on the strength she found in transforming her victimhood into power.

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IMDB
7.2 (221375 votes)
Budget
50,000,000.00$
The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.

Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat | France| Germany
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IMDB
6.3 (148 votes)
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.

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IMDB
6.2 (21742 votes)
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 country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.

Kurz und schmerzlos | Germany
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IMDB
7.2 (4772 votes)
Budget
500,000.00$
Three friends get caught in a life of major crime.

Fighting for Freedom | United States of America
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IMDB
5.7 (96 votes)
Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.

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IMDB
6.0 (699 votes)
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.

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