Immigration Movies

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his...

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...

A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.

An unsuspecting homeless man comes across a dead body and a valuable necklace. When he tries to do the right thing, he finds himself trapped in an...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her...

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

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lagos to Paris, how he survives with a container (un...

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one...

Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the...

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three...

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future...

A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a...

PX, short for Paula Xavier (Vilma Santos) was an illegal alien in New York City. She’s broke and waiting for her fiancé to fulfill his...

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...

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustained during the war in Syria are making his life...