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1) La ciudad
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It creates an unforgettable portrait of immigrant life in a collection of four stories about love, hope, and loss: a day laborer paid to gather bricks from an abandoned lot meets a tragic end; a young man newly arrived from Mexico falls in love with a girl from his home village; a homeless puppeteer dreams of a better life for his daughter; and a seamstress is in desperate need of money to send home for her daughter's medical treatment.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
4) X500
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds. Includes forced Spanish subtitles.
5) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
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Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
6) John Henry
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ex-gang member John Henry is a quiet man with a violent history. John is forced to revisit his troubled past in order to save two immigrant kids on the run from his former gang leader. Set in the gritty streets of South Los Angeles, it is an action-packed crime drama about reconciliation, redemption and transformation.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he tells after spending two years traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The tale of an immigrant and his family trying to live the American Dream in the 1980s and expand their business amidst rampant violence, urban decay, and corrupt city officials during one of the most dangerous years in the city's history.
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer...
13) The Namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The American-born son of Indian immigrants feels pulled between his ethnic heritage and his desire to assimilate, especially after becoming involved with two very different women.
14) Entre nos
Publisher
IndiePix
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
15) Nowhere
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Adrian and Sebastian live an openly gay life in New York as immigrants. When Sebastian's visa is rejected, the two must decide whether to return to Colombia where they face rejection and persecution for their sexual orientation or do whatever is necessary to stay in the United States.
16) Desierto
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer"--Container.
17) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
English
Description
Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.
18) Hawaii
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Team Love Records
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"Based on over 700 interviews in rural Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, [this film] asks why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind." -- Container.
20) A better life
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Carlos Galindo (Demian Bichir), mexicano de cuarenta a©łos, es un trabajador inmigrante ilegal que reside en la ciudad de Los Angeles. Un hombre honrado y decente, lo ©ðnico que Carlos persigue es esforzarse al m©Łximo para dar la mejor calidad de vida posible a su hijo Luis (Jose Julian), por ofrecerle una vida que ©♭l nunca tuvo.-- veotrailers.com.
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed...
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