Topic: Immigration

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Christopher Carley · Bee Vang · Ahney Her

Plot Recently widowed, retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with home repair, beer and monthly trips to the barber. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Peter Beard · Ed Emshwiller · Ken Jacobs · Jonas Mekas

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Stathis Giallelis · Frank Wolff · Harry Davis · Elena Karam

Plot Based on the early life of Kazan's Greek-immigrant uncle, the film tells the story of the struggles of Stavros Topouzoglou in emigrating to America. First of all, he goes to...

Direction Zerocalcare

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Zerocalcare

Direction Juan José Campanella · Sebastián Pivotto · Bruno Stagnaro · Paula Hernández

Cast Héctor Alterio · Ernesto Alterio · Eduardo Blanco · Silvia Abascal

Plot Vientos de agua (Winds of Water) is a 2006 cult Argentine- Spanish mini TV series created by Juan José Campanella. The drama traces a Spaniard's emigration to Argentina in the...

Direction Arantza Diez · David Fontseca

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Charles Boyer · Olivia de Havilland · Paulette Goddard · Victor Francen

Plot Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Birol Ünel · Sibel Kekilli · Catrin Striebeck · Güven Kiraç

Plot Cahit is a German Turk at his late 30's. He has given up with his life after his beloved wife's death, and he's living a miserable life right in the...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell · Albert Austin

Plot Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Amadou Demba · Karidyo Faoudou · Oumarou Ganda · Seydou Guede

Plot Treichville is a poor suburb of Abidjah, the capital of Ivory Coast and the destination of the two protagonists in this docudrama by Jean Rouch. The two men in question...

Direction Arturo González Villaseñor

Cast Karla María Aguilar Romero · Bernarda Romero Vásquez · Daniela Romero Huerta · Guadalupe González Herrera

Direction Bille August

Cast Max von Sydow · Pelle Hvenegaard · Astrid Villaume · Lars Simonsen

Plot At the end of the 19th century, a boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle...

Direction Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Cast Daniel Karimyar · Fardin Mijdzadeh · Milad Eskandari · Belal Faiz

Plot An Afghan refugee agrees to tell a remarkable personal narrative of persecution and escape on the condition that his identity not be revealed. As a means of fulfilling that wish,...

Direction Gianni Amelio

Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Michele Placido · Piro Milkani · Elida Janushi

Plot An opportunistic Italian swindler heads to Albania and finds himself involved with the life of an impoverished local in this somber political drama. Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and his partner...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Eddie Axberg · Svenolof Bern

Plot A profoundly touching celebration of the American experience, this landmark epic film was made in Sweden and recounts the dramatic and resourceful Swedish emigration to America in the 19th century....

Direction Radu Mihaileanu

Cast Yaël Abecassis · Roschdy Zem · Moshe Agazai · Mosche Abebe

Plot 1984. Hundreds of thousands of Africans from twenty-six countries hit by famine amass in refugee camps in Sudan. Israel and the United States undertake a huge rescue operation (Operation Moses)...

Direction Julie Bertucelli

Plot They've just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbian, Brazilian, Tunisian, Chinese, and Senegalese. During a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed the exchanges, conflicts, and joys of this group of students...

Direction Ignacio Reig

Plot Amerikanuak is a documentary about Basque immigrants who went to USA looking for work as shepherds and looking for a better future. It takes place in Elko, Nevada. In this...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Eddie Axberg · Pierre Lindstedt

Plot Continuation from "The Emigrants" - Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they...

Direction Lucía Gajá