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Hoopla
81
7.3
/24602/
72
/565/
69
/255/
3.9
/33903/
96
/57/
84
/506/
80
/23/
cc age 16+

Big Night (1996)
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/45846/
73
/765/
71
/484/
3.7
/12987/
89
/121/
84
/3835/
79
/29/
cc age 13+

The Visitor (2008)
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
poster
76
7.2
/7340/
70
/127/
66
/87/
3.7
/3344/
86
/28/
78
/114/
68
/22/
cc age 13+

Avalon (1990)
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
67
6.6
/1475/
69
/75/
69
/19/
3.3
/3085/
87
/53/
52
/43/
70
/14/
cc age 13+

Yellow Rose (2020)
Rose, a 17-year-old Filipino-American teenager from Texas, dreams of becoming a country music icon. She has to fend for herself when her mother is arrested by ICE, and must choose between following her dreams without her mother or leaving her passions behind.
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Hoopla
67
6.8
/15903/
71
/301/
67
/269/
3.3
/5451/
43
/21/
70
/222/

Heaven & Earth (1993)
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.
poster
59
5.3
/324/
58
/36/
67
/7/
3.3
/535/
61
/18/
69
/2/
53
/6/
cc age 16+

Blast Beat (2021)
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
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Kanopy
69
51
7.0
/2312/
61
/30/
61
/31/
3.7
/5165/
81
/31/
69
/27/
cc age 11+

Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Amazon Prime Video
51
6.7
/25350/
65
/706/
61
/393/
2.9
/3585/
15
/107/
49
/1011/
38
/31/
cc age 17+

Crossing Over (2009)
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. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
39
7.3
/899/
73
/36/
57
/20/
3.8
/1545/
100
/6/
78
/4/

Alambrista! (1977)
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
35
6.6
/788/
67
/47/
59
/23/
3.4
/566/
81
/27/
75
/3/
71
/7/
cc age 15+

Hearts and Bones (2019)
A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.
poster
63
35
6.6
/2093/
64
/19/
59
/27/
3.1
/589/
89
/9/
41
/10/

Bordertown (1935)
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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Hoopla
63
32
6.6
/1529/
66
/142/
60
/30/
3.0
/610/

Gingerbread Miracle (2021)
Maya and Alex, old friends from high school, work together over Christmas to sell his uncle’s Mexican bakery famous for its gingerbread cookies that the patrons believe grants wishes.
poster
62
32
6.9
/1501/
63
/23/
51
/24/
3.4
/735/
62
/194/

The Glass Wall (1953)
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
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Kanopy
65
27
6.2
/792/
57
/27/
51
/17/
3.4
/327/
100
/9/
52
/3/

I Am Yours (2013)
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
poster
65
23
6.7
/644/
63
/14/
59
/10/
3.5
/366/
86
/7/
50
/2/

An American Romance (1944)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
poster
56
20
6.3
/868/
49
/15/
53
/15/
3.3
/950/
49
/16/

Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attentions of a gambler threaten their marriage.
poster
69
17
7.3
/417/
67
/7/
66
/21/
3.5
/450/

School of Babel (2014)
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.
poster
?
7.1
/10/

Polaris (2012)
Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels. That was until Filipino fishermen started coming to town for work. Both nationalities strive to shorten the distance between two very different worlds.
poster
?
10
/1/

Where Is Home? A Binational Gay Love Story (2013)
In 2007, Otts' H1B (work) visa was about to expire. He needed to leave the United States, and his partner Ken, for a full year in order to qualify for another visa. But there was no guarantee that he could return. Two weeks before leaving, Otts and Ken asked their friends to answer some questions on camera: why was this happening? What would Ken and Otts' absence mean to you?
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Amazon Prime Video
50
?
6.0
/119/
57
/12/
33
/3/

Panic (2016)
Music journalist Andrew Deeley (DAVID GYASI) lives in a high-rise tower block, physically and mentally scarred from a vicious attack. Alone and cut off from the world, he obsesses over Kem (YENNIS CHEUNG), his beautiful Chinese neighbour. When Amy (PIPPA NIXON), a married woman he meets online, witnesses Kem's kidnapping, Deeley is left with no choice but to find Kem himself. Armed with only an Oyster card and a hammer, Deeley spirals into the heart of the Triad underworld as he searches for a woman the world has forgotten.
poster
?
7.3
/62/
55
/4/

Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
A complex and compelling Trinidadian tale about a father returning from Canada to a resentful family.
poster
?

It Happened in August (2024)
Aim (Aimme), a Thai immigrant navigating grief and lost dreams, returns to New York after her mother’s passing and is surprised by the sudden reappearance of her ex, Sandra, on a quiet August evening.
poster
?

Curd
Hira is visiting her son in the US, feels trapped in her house and struggles with the alien culture and language. Following a botched dinner preparation, Hira is compelled to take her first steps towards assimilation.
poster
?

Grandma's Story
A Grandmother talks to her granddaughter about her journey to the U.S. from Latin America as a child.


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