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HBO Max Amazon Channel
87
7.8
/164603/
77
/6815/
77
/2104/
4.2
/1550857/
95
/321/
93
/211/
94
/52/
cc age 13+

Past Lives (2023)
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
poster
85
8.0
/8109/
77
/139/
74
/120/
4.2
/7336/
94
/17/
87
/40/

The Emigrants (1971)
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.7
/15998/
75
/260/
73
/286/
4.0
/24475/
93
/27/
90
/197/

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
poster
83
7.5
/157208/
73
/6046/
73
/3192/
3.8
/223898/
97
/277/
87
/1770/
88
/45/
cc age 14+

Brooklyn (2015)
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
poster
82
7.7
/16828/
76
/240/
73
/195/
3.8
/5704/
96
/25/
92
/329/
cc age 12+

Kolya (1996)
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.9
/3340/
74
/153/
68
/49/
4.0
/6352/
100
/74/
75
/10/
86
/17/

Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
poster
81
7.7
/28582/
76
/534/
73
/433/
4.1
/30816/
93
/88/
81
/445/
88
/17/
cc age 10+

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
poster
80
7.8
/9343/
74
/98/
74
/84/
3.7
/4372/
89
/62/
90
/166/
79
/25/

Baran (2001)
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
poster
79
7.7
/12489/
72
/138/
72
/154/
3.9
/5309/
84
/25/
89
/109/

Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.5
/8113/
77
/338/
74
/210/
3.7
/16331/
98
/62/
87
/42/
76
/13/

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/17097/
75
/872/
77
/784/
3.9
/64217/
96
/112/
87
/44/
79
/25/

Io Capitano (2023)
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
poster
78
7.7
/27687/
78
/888/
77
/726/
3.9
/30727/
77
/140/
87
/74/
68
/28/
cc age 17+

Never Look Away (2018)
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
poster
Netflix
77
6.7
/11082/
67
/413/
68
/270/
3.7
/43431/
96
/159/
64
/26/
85
/30/
cc age 15+

Atlantics (2019)
Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
poster
NBC
76
7.2
/99764/
72
/3482/
71
/1613/
3.5
/230102/
86
/331/
92
/600/
75
/55/
cc age 14+

Belfast (2021)
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
poster
75
7.9
/6206/
76
/54/
69
/47/
3.6
/881/
82
/42/

The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
poster
74
IMDb 14
7.6
/14751/
75
/437/
69
/56/
3.5
/45889/
72
/183/
96
/743/
61
/37/
cc age 14+

Nuremberg (2025)
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
poster
74
IMDb 19
7.0
/31235/
73
/1599/
67
/432/
3.5
/825045/
88
/406/
95
/15125/
58
/60/
cc age 11+

Wicked: For Good (2025)
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.9
/1735/
67
/83/
68
/42/
3.6
/6356/
97
/76/
74
/12/
75
/16/

Farewell Amor (2020)
Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.
poster
74
7.3
/5734/
72
/74/
71
/187/
3.6
/2096/
75
/12/
81
/50/

The Star Maker (1995)
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
poster
Netflix
71
6.6
/48384/
65
/2008/
66
/905/
3.4
/160166/
85
/175/
72
/155/
71
/37/
cc age 15+

The Wonder (2022)
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
poster
Netflix
71
6.6
/3973/
67
/239/
67
/91/
3.3
/15019/
83
/81/
67
/38/
65
/19/
cc age 13+

Tigertail (2020)
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
poster
71
7.2
/8098/
74
/123/
72
/144/
3.7
/7644/
60
/15/
73
/111/

Rhapsody in August (1991)
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
poster
70
6.9
/1959/
66
/94/
70
/74/
3.2
/3988/
75
/16/
83
/23/
63
/9/

Seoul Searching (2015)
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.0
/2938/
70
/50/
67
/39/
3.3
/421/
67
/39/
75
/60/
60
/19/

Bride Flight (2008)
A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
poster
68
7.4
/5329/
69
/45/
64
/67/
3.4
/1207/
65
/31/
88
/60/
61
/27/

East/West (1999)
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
6.8
/1947/
56
/122/
64
/42/
3.3
/458/
82
/33/
72
/33/
63
/8/
cc age 13+

Noble (2014)
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
poster
68
7.3
/90600/
75
/2993/
72
/1494/
3.5
/39930/
69
/142/
81
/1511/
55
/36/
cc age 12+

The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
poster
Kanopy
67
7.3
/24248/
73
/405/
73
/339/
3.6
/10149/
52
/84/
81
/838/
54
/32/
cc age 15+

Angela's Ashes (1999)
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
poster
74
66
7.7
/6366/
73
/99/
69
/94/
3.8
/3891/
67
/9/
85
/52/
72
/12/

America America (1963)
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
7.2
/352930/
73
/18404/
71
/6643/
3.5
/315853/
68
/294/
73
/2716/
56
/40/
cc age 13+

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
poster
71
65
6.9
/5890/
65
/143/
67
/84/
3.8
/9116/
74
/31/
82
/182/
64
/13/

Princesses (2005)
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.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.3
/6532/
59
/170/
57
/136/
3.5
/13592/
87
/92/
33
/1/
84
/22/

Synonyms (2019)
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
poster
Kanopy
72
62
7.2
/4687/
74
/67/
69
/122/
3.7
/3706/
70
/10/
77
/44/

Padre Padrone (1977)
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
poster
69
62
6.6
/4585/
69
/173/
71
/337/
3.5
/6641/
73

Ace of Aces (1982)
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
poster
MGM Plus
61
5.9
/4669/
63
/124/
56
/88/
2.9
/2024/
57
/5240/

Buster (1988)
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
poster
70
60
7.1
/3824/
70
/63/
65
/74/
3.5
/2591/
67
/15/
79
/89/

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
poster
74
60
7.5
/3870/
73
/68/
69
/51/
3.7
/867/
74
/50/
91
/123/
66
/20/

Zelary (2003)
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
poster
Kanopy
76
60
7.2
/3965/
73
/166/
68
/101/
3.6
/2244/
91
/32/
82
/4/
77
/8/

The Teacher (2016)
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
poster
64
60
6.9
/8313/
69
/236/
72
/655/
3.6
/4613/
55
/11/
50
/109/

Baaria (2009)
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
59
7.4
/4076/
72
/87/
73
/68/
3.7
/6713/
94
/16/
100
/1/
82
/6/

Pamfir (2022)
When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.
poster
Kanopy
71
59
7.3
/3595/
66
/62/
70
/65/
3.7
/3360/
76
/227/

Midaq Alley (1995)
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
63
59
6.4
/5327/
62
/193/
57
/79/
3.3
/2674/
79
/62/
56
/460/
62
/21/

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
poster
62
57
6.4
/7502/
66
/151/
61
/138/
3.3
/3668/
65
/26/
52
/73/
66
/11/

The Border (1982)
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
poster
78
56
7.4
/2480/
71
/42/
71
/62/
3.6
/1245/
92
/12/
89
/27/

Lamerica (1994)
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
6.2
/2071/
61
/92/
69
/50/
3.2
/497/
31
/42/
62
/27/
49
/17/
cc age 14+

Desert Dancer (2014)
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.
poster
56
6.1
/17031/
61
/224/
61
/255/
2.9
/5373/
35
/69/
59
/751/
40
/22/

The Man Who Cried (2000)
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
poster
69
55
6.9
/2994/
65
/56/
65
/38/
3.4
/1545/
80
/5/
72
/47/

The Anniversary (1968)
Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for it to continue. None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but this anniversary they intend to try. With cruel and brutal twists, the family get-together becomes a social nightmare beyond endurance.
poster
79
54
8.2
/5533/
80
/37/
78
/26/
3.9
/1766/

Sky Hook (2000)
Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from his wife Tijana, who wants to emigrate with their son.


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