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No Dogs or Italians Allowed(2023)

1h 10min | Animation, Drama
3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new life in France, thus changing his beloved family's destiny forever. His grandson retraces their story.

Directed by Alain Ughetto

A Separation(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 735 votes)

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Angela's Ashes(1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 25min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 131 votes)

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

The Border(1982)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Atlantics(2019)

3.4/5 (with 107 votes)

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

Directed by Mati Diop - With Ibrahima Traore

Nowhere in Africa(2001)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 20min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 69 votes)

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

Nanny(2022)

1h 37min | Drama, Horror
2.7/5 (with 74 votes)

Senegalese immigrant Aisha lands a job as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan couple. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening to destroy the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

Directed by Nikyatu Jusu - With Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Leslie Uggams, Zephani Idoko, ...

Golden Door(2006)

3.2/5 (with 58 votes)

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

The Emigrants(2021)

2h 28min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, they are determined to succeed.

¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe!(1971)

1h 35min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Peralejos, a quiet village in Upper Aragon, is a place where nothing ever happens. One day Angelino returns home to spend the holidays, an immigrant who drives a Mercedes and tells great wonders of Germany and their women. Pepe, fascinated by the stories of his friend, decides to immigrate, but his dream begins at five o'clock, cleaning windows, and ends at twelve o'clock pasting posters.

La vida no vale nada(1955)

1h 40min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.

Crossing Borders(2006)

1h 36min | Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.

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Bride Flight(2008)

2h 10min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Próxima(2007)

1h 56min | Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.

Directed by Carlos Atanes - With Hans Richter, Arantxa Peña, Abel Folk, Dani Mantero

My Boss(2012)

3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

The film is set in the backdrop of IT Industry. Dileep appears as a young software engineer working in Mumbai and who aspires to migrate to a foreign country while Mamta plays the role of his boss.

Colossal Youth(2006)

2h 35min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

Directed by Pedro Costa - With Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta

Hanaan(2012)

1h 28min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Stas is a young third generation Koryo-saram, a member of the Korean minority in Central Asia that was deported from the Russian Far East by Stalin. He and his three friends Kasoy, Shin and Said try to escape from the grim life in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, and one day, they also try heroin. Then, however, Kasoy gets killed by a gang. 6 years later, Shin has emigrated to South Korea, Said has become a drug addict and Stas is now a police officer. Said commits suicide by overdosing and Stas, who has has since then also become a drug addict, decides to turn over a new leaf. He follows Shin to South Korea, but can this be Hanaan for him, the Promised Land?

Directed by Ruslan Pak

Here and There(2009)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the money never arrives, leaving Robert stuck in Serbia. Meanwhile in New York, Banko, the young Serb whose girlfriend Robert is to marry, fights to come up with the cash.

17 Miracles(2011)

1h 53min | History, Drama, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual events, and brought to you by filmmaker T.C. Christensen (Praise to the Man, The Work and the Glory), 17 Miracles will open your eyes to the stories of the Mormon Pioneers as you have never seen them before. Something extraordinary is about to happen.

Directed by T. C. Christensen

Touch and Go(1955)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.

Directed by Michael Truman - With Jack Hawkins

The American Dream: Europeans in the New World(2019)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.

A Lady in Paris(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 34min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Stéphane, however, is desperate for Anne to stay and look after Frida, even against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers, Anne will find her own way….

Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin(1977)

1h 24min | Drama

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The Theme(1979)

1h 34min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - dissident Andrei and intellectual Sasha, who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...

The Beach Guard in Winter(1976)

1h 30min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period.

At the Entrance of the Night(2020)

19min
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two Senegalese men walk through a forest in Morocco at night. As they try to find a passageway to the north, they talk about a strange dream. Two officers from the Spanish Civil Guard patrol the Spanish coast in an SUV. The car's headlights probe the darkness in search of illegal immigrants. In Paris, a young woman performs a symbolic burial in a forest on the edge of the city.

Emile – Erinnerungen eines Vertriebenen(2023)

1h 26min | Documentary

- No description / details available yet. -

The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Frosina(1952)

1h 28min | Drama, War
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The first Macedonian Movie from 1952- Frosina is one of the many Macedonian wives whose husbands are economic emigrants abroad. Marriage does not bring them a family, only the burden of life itself. After her husband's short visits, she gives birth to children who do not live long because of the poverty into which they have been born. She gives birth to them alone, and she buries them alone. Only her last child, Klime, survives all his various illnesses and grows up to be her one joy in life. The war breaks out...

Ostrov svobody(2022)

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