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Kanopy
86
8.2
/25458/
79
/399/
80
/641/
4.3
/40825/
91
/33/
94
/189/
84
/7/

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
poster
85
8.0
/8181/
77
/141/
74
/122/
4.2
/7525/
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.
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Hulu
83
7.5
/157728/
73
/6101/
73
/3208/
3.8
/229590/
97
/277/
87
/1772/
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
/16894/
77
/243/
73
/199/
3.8
/6232/
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.
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84
81
7.9
/15930/
79
/251/
78
/208/
4.4
/41763/
95
/22/
93
/138/
80
/21/

Eternity and a Day (1998)
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.
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Kanopy
79
7.5
/14690/
73
/200/
70
/175/
3.6
/3860/
85
/101/
88
/329/
72
/31/

Nowhere in Africa (2001)
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
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Netflix
77
6.7
/11118/
67
/417/
67
/274/
3.7
/44045/
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.
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Kanopy
75
7.2
/17854/
72
/498/
68
/506/
3.6
/20276/
88
/130/
81
/63/
76
/29/
cc age 17+

Dheepan (2015)
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
poster
74
7.0
/2138/
64
/20/
67
/37/
3.4
/852/
78
/9/
72
/35/

Four Friends (1981)
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
poster
70
7.1
/140416/
72
/7701/
69
/3280/
3.6
/188826/
81
/250/
78
/562/
67
/42/
cc age 18+

T2 Trainspotting (2017)
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
poster
70
6.7
/5313/
61
/62/
62
/94/
3.3
/1407/
77
/96/
75
/148/
68
/30/

Bon Voyage (2003)
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
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78
69
7.8
/5688/
76
/81/
75
/101/
4.3
/8251/
68
/28/
90
/76/
73
/12/

The Weeping Meadow (2004)
The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, while the characters remain trapped in an unending search for a homeland.
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Kanopy
69
6.7
/2052/
67
/71/
65
/118/
3.4
/2202/
85
/53/
64
/14/
65
/13/
cc age 13+

Polina (2016)
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
poster
68
7.4
/5349/
69
/45/
63
/68/
3.4
/1294/
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.
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The Roku Channel
68
6.4
/11284/
64
/148/
61
/138/
3.3
/2870/
77
/145/
62
/188/
68
/37/

The Good Thief (2003)
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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74
63
6.9
/2835/
69
/52/
66
/67/
3.9
/7873/
82
/11/
76
/46/
82
/8/

Blissfully Yours (2002)
Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant.
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Kanopy
81
62
7.8
/3367/
67
/61/
71
/58/
4.0
/1980/
100
/5/
91
/17/

Kaos (1984)
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
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Kanopy
69
61
6.8
/5303/
68
/80/
65
/142/
3.4
/2202/
73
/84/
69
/397/
74
/22/
cc age 13+

Golden Door (2006)
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
poster
60
6.4
/92240/
64
/2504/
60
/1357/
2.9
/76519/
54
/166/
60
/5788/
48
/36/
cc age 13+

Spanglish (2004)
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
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Criterion Channel
75
54
7.3
/2245/
70
/32/
63
/27/
3.9
/4948/
94
/353/

Alexandria… Why? (1979)
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
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JustWatch TV
68
53
7.3
/9536/
74
/124/
64
/75/
3.4
/2039/
63
/8/
78
/9/
61
/5/

Worlds Apart (2015)
Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
poster
76
49
7.6
/4207/
73
/109/
70
/67/
3.6
/1692/
90
/7/

Rose (2012)
This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.
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Kanopy
77
47
7.1
/1929/
72
/28/
68
/40/
3.6
/1448/
89
/9/
93
/11/

Madame Rosa (1977)
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
poster
71
47
7.2
/3114/
68
/175/
69
/85/
3.6
/2483/
77
/1/

Silent Night (2017)
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
poster
69
45
7.0
/1921/
55
/26/
62
/41/
3.6
/1278/
100
/5/
57
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Three Brothers (1981)
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
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Kanopy
71
44
6.7
/1269/
64
/44/
66
/42/
3.6
/3420/
91
/11/
67
/2/

Skies of Lebanon (2021)
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden.
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Hoopla
61
43
5.3
/1529/
56
/144/
51
/73/
2.8
/1674/
90
/20/
64
/12/

Two Heads Creek (2019)
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
poster
72
42
7.0
/1499/
71
/27/
69
/39/
3.7
/1593/
78
/9/
72
/8/

La Marseillaise (1938)
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
poster
58
41
6.3
/3123/
65
/71/
62
/76/
3.2
/1259/
37
/443/

The Indian Fighter (1955)
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
40
6.3
/1777/
64
/51/
59
/25/
3.3
/801/
86
/66/

17 Miracles (2011)
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual events, and brought to you by filmmaker T.C. Christensen (Praise to the Man, The Work and the Glory), 17 Miracles will open your eyes to the stories of the Mormon Pioneers as you have never seen them before. Something extraordinary is about to happen.
poster
66
39
6.9
/5493/
68
/77/
60
/37/
3.3
/841/
71
/11/

A Kind of America (2002)
Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his...
poster
64
37
5.7
/428/
50
/2/
51
/18/
100
/6/
50
/8/
79
/6/

Love (2005)
In New York, an absurd coincidence links the lives of a Yugoslavian hitman, his ex-wife and her new partner, a policeman whose father was a criminal. His code name is "Uncle Vanya". He grew up in Bosnia, an orphan of both parents and, having never met them, he does not know whether he is a Serb, a Croat or a Muslim. A victim of his fate and his past in war-torn Bosnia, he has become a hitman. He would like to stop killing but he can't.
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Kanopy
74
37
6.9
/790/
75
/19/
69
/12/
3.4
/1021/
87
/15/
73
/2/
80
/9/

The Road to Mandalay (2016)
Lianqing and Guo, who hail from Burma, flee their country and seek refuge in Thailand. Gho's feelings for Lianqing may just surpass her feelings for him.
poster
68
36
6.8
/947/
71
/41/
60
/26/
3.5
/893/
75
/8/

Lillian (2019)
Lillian, stranded as an emigrant in New York, wants to walk back to her native Russia. Determined, she sets out on the long journey. A road movie across the United States into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance.
poster
Hoopla
77
36
7.5
/526/
81
/29/
69
/10/
3.5
/204/
95
/40/
79
/15/
73
/9/

Sing Your Song (2012)
Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.
poster
75
31
7.7
/481/
72
/19/
71
/18/
4.0
/1851/

The Dupes (1972)
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
poster
60
31
6.0
/2198/
64
/40/
57
/61/
3.1
/686/

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach (1993)
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
poster
45
31
5.8
/3135/
59
/78/
53
/49/
2.9
/317/
17
/54/
49
/346/
25
/18/
cc age 16+

September Dawn (2007)
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
poster
59
29
6.0
/248/
58
/6/
65
/17/
63
/16/
46
/5/
67
/7/

Here and There (2012)
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the US, he hopes to now finally make a better life with his family, and even to pursue his dreams on the side by starting a band: Copa Kings. He cherishes the everyday moments with his family. The villagers think this year's crop will be bountiful. There is also good work in a growing city an hour away. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. That place somehow always feels very present, practically knocking at the door. "Aquí y Allá" is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind.
poster
57
27
5.7
/740/
51
/31/
56
/28/
3.2
/1468/

Inferno of Torture (1969)
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
26
6.3
/1607/
66
/70/
64
/95/
3.1
/526/
59
/2/

The History of Love (2016)
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
poster
69
25
7.4
/1331/
73
/22/
59
/28/
3.5
/523/

The Passport (1990)
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
24
7.2
/562/
70
/15/
69
/19/
3.7
/1049/
85
/9/

… And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)
In 1986, Louis Malle examines the immigrant experience in America by interviewing newcomers from various professions nationwide, highlighting their struggles in a multicultural society.
poster
Kanopy
56
24
6.2
/1641/
68
/38/
59
/41/
3.1
/581/
31
/8/

S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
poster
68
23
7.7
/1391/
68
/17/
56
/23/
3.6
/504/

The Flight (1971)
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.
poster
62
23
6.2
/1359/
62
/35/
59
/29/
3.3
/870/
65
/3/

Beautiful Youth (2014)
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porno film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
22
6.8
/1192/
67
/58/
61
/30/
3.4
/650/
59
/2/

Fair Play (2014)
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
20
4.7
/1056/
58
/59/
51
/27/
2.8
/202/
62
/16/

Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
Fleeing religious persecution in Germany, a family seeks a new start in uncharted country - America. It is the mid-1700s and British and French forces are struggling for control over the abundant resources of this new territory. Carving out a homestead can be arduous work, but the family labors joyfully. Then the unthinkable: In a terrifying raid, Delaware warriors kidnap the two young daughters and attempt to indoctrinate them into native culture. Through their ordeal they never lose hope and "their faith becomes their freedom.


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