Immigration Movies

A woman awakes on a surreal purgatorial island after being mistakenly declared dead.

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a...

Mateo, 17, prepares to migrate to Los Angeles in order to support his humble family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico, yet before he...

Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his...

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

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a...

"When will you return?" tells the story of a grandmother (Doña Conchita) who is taking care of her grandson (Tomás) after her son...

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry...

Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and...

Three intertwining stories that take place in La Salada — the largest unregulated market in Buenos Aires: a Korean father prepares his daughter...

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them...

A man and his dog cross the desert in search of La Frontera, a mighty river that represents the geographical limit with the neighboring territory....

A woman is forced to leave Venezuela, where she has lived for 28 years. She wonders what to pack in her suitcase.

After a shipwreck, a Syrian girl arrives alone on a Sicilian island. A doctor sets out to find her origins and her mother.

Caro travels to Venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are...

An immigrant boy faces difficulty growing up in Toronto's apartment slums.

Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos....