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Encanto(2021)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 39min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 4,383 votes)

The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family—every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.

Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith

Snakehead(2021)

1h 29min | Action, Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America—to find the child that was taken from her. In the end, Sister Tse must draw on the strength she found in transforming her victimhood into power.

Directed by Evan Jackson Leong

Gran Torino(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,825 votes)

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Bend It Like Beckham(2002)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 835 votes)

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.

Paris Je T'aime(2006)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 312 votes)

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

An American Tail(1986)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 20min | Drama, Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 581 votes)

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

Directed by Don Bluth

My Beautiful Laundrette(1985)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 109 votes)

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

The Visitor(2007)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 44min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 186 votes)

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

Ae Fond Kiss...(2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 46 votes)

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Gary Lewis, Ghizala Avan, David McKay, Raymond Mearns, ...

Green Card(1990)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 212 votes)

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.

Simón(2018)

26min | Drama

A young Venezuelan freedom fighter seeks asylum in the United States, but his heart remains in the fight back home.

Live and Become(2005)

2h 20min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

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Saint Judy(2019)

1h 46min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

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

Directed by Sean Hanish

Chinese Puzzle(2013)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 299 votes)

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 growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

Princesses(2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.

In America(2003)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 143 votes)

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Hippocrates(2014)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 210 votes)

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

Visions of Europe(2004)

2h 20min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A Moment in the Reeds(2018)

1h 48min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.

Directed by Mikko Mäkelä

Mala Noche(1986)

1h 15min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 47 votes)

Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus Van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.

Directed by Gus Van Sant

An Autumn's Tale(1987)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

A story about a New York Chinatown cab driver who falls for college student.

Directed by Mabel Cheung - With Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Chan

El Norte(1983)

2h 21min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

The Perez Family(1995)

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.

Born in East L.A.(1987)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 43 votes)

Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!

Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat(2002)

1h 30min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.

Directed by Christian Wagner

The Europeans(1979)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.

Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique(1971)

1h 23min | Drama, Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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The Wolves(2020)

1h 35min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.

Directed by Samuel Kishi Leopo

Lowlife(2017)

1h 38min | Crime, Thriller, Comedy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

Short Sharp Shock(1998)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

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