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Movies: Best "foreign worker" Movies


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Plan 75(2022)

3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

Directed by Chie Hayakawa - With Chieko Baishō

Once Upon a Time in China and America(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Action, Western
2.9/5 (with 38 votes)

So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.

Glorious 39(2009)

R
| 2h 9min | War, Drama, History, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.

Visaranai(2016)

1h 58min | Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 27 votes)

Pandi and his friends, immigrant workers in Andhra Pradesh, are picked up by cops for a crime they never committed. And thus begins their nightmare, where they become pawns in a vicious game where the voiceless are strangled by those with power.

Directed by Vetrimaaran - With Attakathi Dinesh

Solino(2002)

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.

The Swindlers(1959)

2h 12min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

A Day Without a Mexican(2004)

R
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 15 votes)

When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.

A Land Imagined(2019)

1h 35min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

A cop in Singapore investigates the disappearance of a Chinese migrant construction worker who spent sleepless nights playing a mysterious video game.

Directed by Siew Hua Yeo

Second Class(2012)

1h 1min | Documentary

'Do you feel cheaper?' We are filming young Lithuanian men working in Sweden. They do not want to be caught on camera, they do not want to participate in creating yet another media image of guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow. Second Class is a time document about class, respect, the value of work and human being.

Annas Erbe(2011)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The surprising death of her husband hits Anna like a blow: Suddenly she is completely alone and has to take care of the management of the apple orchard. In order to assist her mother in the difficult time, Anna's illegitimate daughter Ines draws her to the estate. The relationship between the two women is difficult, tensions are inevitable. In this emotionally charged atmosphere, Anna learns that her 16-year-old granddaughter Jo is unintentionally pregnant. Ines has no idea of ​​her daughter's secret. However, it is only a matter of time before the hide-and-seek game flies open.

Squid Jigging Fishing Boat(2017)

1h 58min | Documentary

Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to work at Falkland Islands in the South West Atlantic. The sailing takes 35-40 days and crew members named it "waterway." January 1st, 2015, a 65 meter long, 11 meter wide fishing boat began its journey to Falkland island. This is a documentary about 60 crew members from south-east Asia to work far away from Taiwan.

Mama Illegal(2012)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.

Directed by Ed Moschitz
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How to Pick Berries(2010)

19min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A finnish short film about immigrant people coming to Finland to pick berries.

Directed by Elina Talvensaari