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Disney Plus
88
8.3
/136938/
83
/5896/
74
/68/
4.3
/629819/
98
/204/
99
/601/
88
/42/
cc age 11+

Hamilton (2025)
Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
87
7.8
/168049/
77
/7080/
77
/2170/
4.2
/1627923/
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
Amazon Prime Video
84
IMDb 95
7.9
/865950/
80
/41809/
78
/13609/
4.0
/3788947/
97
/472/
92
/12384/
82
/52/
cc age 13+

Knives Out (2019)
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
poster
MGM Plus
83
7.6
/126951/
73
/3095/
72
/1995/
3.8
/248867/
92
/115/
84
/5796/
86
/17/
cc age 11+

West Side Story (1961)
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/43029/
72
/742/
71
/586/
3.9
/76421/
100
/26/
88
/764/
86
/13/

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise visit. Later, Eva moves in with their aunt in Cleveland, and Willie takes his best friend Eddie to see her—a visit that culminates in a strange, eventful trip to Florida.
poster
83
7.5
/37405/
71
/659/
69
/705/
3.7
/25799/
95
/158/
82
/1385/
92
/31/

The Class (2008)
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.5
/149485/
75
/9275/
73
/2574/
3.8
/257219/
98
/306/
88
/1349/
86
/47/
cc age 15+

The Big Sick (2017)
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.2
/132201/
70
/4692/
70
/1525/
3.9
/733154/
93
/337/
80
/523/
90
/57/
cc age 17+

The Brutalist (2024)
When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
poster
Hoopla
81
7.3
/24702/
72
/572/
69
/261/
3.9
/34700/
96
/57/
84
/506/
80
/23/
cc age 16+

Big Night (1996)
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
poster
81
7.7
/6003/
77
/112/
71
/77/
3.9
/8324/
92
/61/
82
/159/
75
/10/

El Norte (1983)
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
poster
80
7.2
/4819/
76
/1693/
74
/126/
4.0
/34871/
100
/11/

The 47 (2024)
Based on a true story, in late 1970s Barcelona, Manolo Vital, a bus driver, takes bold action to protest the neglect of Torre Baró, an immigrant neighborhood. His act becomes a symbol of resistance against systemic inequality during a pivotal moment in the city’s modern transformation.
poster
The Roku Channel
80
7.1
/24100/
70
/1220/
70
/513/
3.9
/100651/
96
/224/
65
/160/
90
/44/
cc age 13+

First Cow (2020)
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.
poster
80
7.4
/2129/
71
/37/
72
/96/
3.8
/1443/
100
/6/
85
/30/

Bread and Chocolate (1974)
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
poster
80
7.3
/4813/
72
/97/
74
/81/
3.7
/4281/
79
/58/
88
/176/
cc age 17+

My Family (1995)
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
poster
79
7.7
/4115/
76
/102/
76
/205/
4.0
/5456/
70
/10/
88
/11/

Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
poster
Plex
79
7.4
/8229/
74
/157/
70
/233/
3.9
/8477/
92
/52/
76
/407/
83
/16/

The Secret of the Grain (2007)
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.6
/12631/
76
/305/
73
/117/
3.8
/6794/
97
/137/
83
/706/
cc age 8+

Spellbound (2002)
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
poster
78
6.7
/1929/
71
/87/
70
/64/
3.6
/5047/
97
/94/
85
/35/
76
/23/

I Carry You with Me (2021)
An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
poster
MUBI
78
7.9
/123107/
77
/2246/
78
/1936/
4.2
/192186/
69
/120/
91
/4066/
63
/33/

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
poster
fuboTV
77
8.5
/1340132/
83
/29092/
82
/15751/
4.0
/1286660/
76
/66/
95
/14690/
64
/12/
cc age 16+

Léon: The Professional (1994)
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
poster
Hoopla
77
7.5
/75498/
71
/1091/
71
/828/
3.6
/21073/
74
/180/
83
/2299/
71
/41/
cc age 17+

House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
poster
76
7.3
/9797/
75
/783/
78
/148/
3.4
/9795/
90
/90/
98
/1138/
51
/14/
cc age 13+

Cabrini (2024)
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
poster
76
7.2
/7441/
70
/136/
66
/89/
3.7
/3653/
86
/28/
78
/115/
68
/22/
cc age 13+

Avalon (1990)
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
poster
MGM Plus
76
7.5
/501081/
75
/11628/
73
/7034/
3.7
/439177/
72
/210/
81
/11176/
72
/39/
cc age 17+

Gangs of New York (2002)
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
poster
76
7.1
/331/
65
/4/
67
/7/
3.6
/538/
100
/31/
62
/4/
87
/14/

On the Seventh Day (2018)
A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.
poster
Netflix
76
7.0
/40301/
74
/3537/
72
/2078/
3.2
/37542/
85
/34/
95
/156/
62
/11/

Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)
Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.2
/2300/
67
/33/
63
/27/
3.7
/1854/
94
/72/
85
/42/
80
/21/

Last Resort (2000)
Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.9
/4090/
68
/177/
63
/105/
3.6
/21047/
98
/87/
85
/14/
72
/21/

Fremont (2023)
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.0
/3883/
68
/97/
68
/51/
3.7
/4456/
89
/55/
66
/198/
71
/14/

Man Push Cart (2006)
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.8
/7279/
69
/179/
64
/95/
3.9
/30484/
92
/76/
65
/173/
78
/31/

Mississippi Masala (1991)
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African-American communities.
poster
Plex
75
7.3
/24545/
74
/795/
73
/547/
3.7
/19062/
88
/25/
78
/143/
70
/10/

The Yellow Sea (2010)
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.8
/1413/
66
/51/
59
/25/
3.6
/7550/
95
/38/
71
/6/

Here (2024)
In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.1
/3583/
67
/97/
67
/89/
3.6
/9697/
87
/85/
63
/6/
78
/20/

Tori and Lokita (2022)
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.7
/9379/
68
/690/
68
/137/
3.9
/125285/
85
/137/
85
/20/
68
/30/
cc age 15+

Problemista (2024)
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
74
7.4
/7051/
77
/217/
72
/163/
4.1
/54176/
94
/33/
75
/51/
75
/7/

Black Girl (1966)
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
poster
74
7.1
/9407/
65
/115/
68
/160/
3.7
/5137/
85
/97/
69
/271/
80
/24/

Lorna's Silence (2008)
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/17040/
69
/396/
71
/268/
3.5
/7759/
86
/104/
79
/596/
64
/30/
cc age 14+

A Better Life (2011)
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
73
6.9
/81308/
68
/2952/
66
/1503/
3.6
/77621/
89
/227/
69
/1053/
79
/44/
cc age 17+

A Most Violent Year (2014)
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
poster
73
7.3
/170742/
72
/8065/
71
/3681/
3.6
/401952/
90
/347/
85
/1088/
76
/44/
cc age 16+

The Disaster Artist (2017)
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
poster
Kanopy
76
72
7.5
/9882/
70
/261/
72
/305/
3.7
/19160/
89
/682/

The Immigrant (1917)
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
poster
MUBI
72
6.5
/16192/
63
/467/
64
/292/
3.7
/36490/
86
/136/
53
/500/
85
/36/
cc age 13+

Meek's Cutoff (2011)
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.4
/97600/
73
/1416/
72
/1178/
3.9
/64113/
66
/151/
75
/1684/
58
/33/
cc age 17+

Biutiful (2010)
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
poster
Kanopy
70
5.8
/2889/
61
/189/
60
/44/
3.2
/5308/
95
/57/
59
/13/
65
/11/

Raging Grace (2023)
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
poster
80
70
7.8
/6521/
74
/62/
71
/63/
3.8
/2096/
100
/20/
84
/95/

I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
70
7.1
/16276/
68
/279/
67
/271/
3.8
/28739/
75
/51/
79
/234/
74
/13/

Code Unknown (2000)
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
6.6
/35046/
66
/1141/
63
/866/
3.5
/34887/
85
/113/
60
/372/
77
/34/
cc age 16+

The Immigrant (2013)
1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.1
/1325/
62
/18/
62
/18/
3.6
/1674/
73
/11/
70
/79/

Double Happiness (1994)
Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.
poster
74
68
6.8
/6891/
68
/122/
68
/100/
3.5
/4389/
96
/54/
75
/468/
77
/11/

Somers Town (2008)
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.


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