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Based on a true story, this film follows a group of young undocumented people who get deliberately detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a detention center. But once inside, their plan to free people doesn’t go as planned. Available to rent or buy from Amazon and the film’s website.
Dec 20, 2019 · Rian Johnson’s hit movie “Knives Out," starring Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Toni Collette and Jamie Lee Curtis, has spurred debated over movies' depictions of the lives of undocumented...
- Gwen Aviles
- The Godfather II
- The Terminal
- Coming to America
- The Namesake
- Gangs of New York
- Avalon
- Moscow on The Hudson
- The Immigrant
- An American Tail
- Maria Full of Grace
Surprised to seea movie about a Mafia boss on this list? While this is a different angle to consider when it comes to immigration, there is one very important aspect about immigration that the two first Godfather films portray very well: how the network you leave at your country of origin, as well as the community you join in your new country, beco...
This Steven Spielberg movie is based on the true story of Mehram Karimi Nasseri, who passed away a few months ago at the airport he spent decades calling his home. Nasseri, the real-life person, spent decades stuck at Charles de Gaulle airport, because of “legal hurdles to prove his refugee status”. In the fictional version, the main character, pla...
This comedy, where Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall play multiple roles each, tells the story of Akeem, played by Murphy, the prince of a fictional African country, who’s used to an extremely lavish lifestyle. However, Akeem is unhappy with the bride that has been arranged for him, and wants to find a wife he can marry for her intelligence and whom he...
Based on the book by Jhumpa Lahiri, which we also recommend, this movie explores the immigrant experience from the first and second-generation perspective, as it shows how Gogol, the main character, struggles with his dual identityas an Indian as an American, and wants to fit in with American society and culture. At the same time, the movie explore...
This movie is based on a nonfiction book published in the late 1920s and named like the movie. Set on the Five Points neighborhood of New York around the early 1860s, Gangs of New Yorkfocuses on Irish Americans as a major group of immigrants in New York City, as well as others that were, at the time, considered as “less than”, yet could establish a...
This film focuses on experience of a Jewish immigrant family in the 20th century and brings up some themes that may be common to the immigrant experience in general, such as the multigenerational struggles of maintaining close links to traditionsand culture of the home country, the feelings of trepidation that some levels of assimilation may bring ...
In this romantic, dramatic comedy, the immigrant experience is illustrated through defection. A musician visiting the United States from Soviet Russia decides to defect and stay in the United States, which he decides to do while visiting a department store. The movie focuses on the stark differences Vladimir, played by Robin Williams, notices betwe...
Another story based on an immigrant in the early 20th century, The Immigrant tells the story of Ewa, a Polish immigrant who arrived at Ellis Island, initially with her sister; upon initial entry, the sisters get separated, and Ewa ends up in New York Cityand becomes a victim of exploitation. The power of this movie goes beyond a story of someone wh...
This is the only animated movie on our list, telling the story of Fivel as an immigrant leaving the “gloom and doom” of his Russian town to go to a land of opportunity…and loads of cheese. This is, of course, a children’s movie, so it will not show the starkest difficulties of the immigrant experience at its most dark and gloomy. However, it does s...
We’ve chosen this movie as an example of a film showcasing the story of an immigrant driven by desperation. Maria, a young Colombian woman working in a flower packing plant, becomes pregnant and, in an attempt to find better options for herself and her child, gets involved in smuggling drugs into the United States. Instead of relying on stereotypes...
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Oct 2, 2019 · By Maria Elena Fernandez. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. Over the last six months, scripted TV has had its share of heartbreaking stories about undocumented immigrants. We’ve watched a handcuffed...
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Undocumented: Directed by Patricia Shih. With Jay O. Sanders. The true story of an undocumented immigrant who traveled as a 13 year-old with his 11 year-old brother through the Bermuda Triangle during hurricane season to join their parents whom they had not seen in years.
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Dec 3, 2014 · Dec. 3, 2014. Share: Spare Parts, the George Lopez movie opening in theaters in January 2015, is an inspirational true story about four undocumented high schoolers in Arizona who took on...
Sep 29, 2021 · Based on Adam Nevill's novel, Menghini’s “No One Gets Out Alive” explores the real-life horror of how undocumented immigrants are exploited using a conventional horror movie construct. Ambar is haunted by the death of her ailing mother in a hospital scene we see revisited multiple times throughout the film.
