Immigration Movies

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US...

Leonidas and Vangelis travel to Munich to work in the successful restaurant of there uncle.

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the...

An engineer, secretly living in her car while driving for a rideshare app in Berlin, picks up the man whose firm rejected her credentials seven years...

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

An immigrant's story about the love that is lost when a man's wife and son finally receive visas to join him in the USA.

Working as a cleaning lady, studying at university and maintaining a relationship with her high school sweetheart, John, is all Eugenia does to...

Life is a question of luck.

Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germany where some members of the family have already...

When Ilse Cruz was a toddler, she and her mom immigrated from Mexico to Chicago in search of better opportunities. Now a passionate dancer and...

Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the...

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...

Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ignites a political and media furor that culminates...

A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the...

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of...

Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.

It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly...

While living in New York, a young immigrant receives tragic news from overseas, and must choose between going home or staying in the US to maintain...