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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
Fandor
74
6.8
/6999/
66
/190/
66
/91/
3.6
/7383/
89
/28/
75
/191/
70
/16/

The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
poster
74
7.3
/11447/
73
/157/
70
/171/
3.7
/6471/
84
/19/
77
/121/
57
/8/

Ragtime (1981)
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Disney Plus
72
7.3
/686846/
74
/26337/
70
/11959/
3.4
/751910/
82
/176/
83
/28286/
64
/33/
cc age 11+

X-Men (2000)
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
6.6
/35034/
66
/1141/
63
/865/
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
72
65
7.3
/3854/
73
/233/
72
/276/
3.6
/49704/

Monsieur Aznavour (2024)
From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New York, discover the exceptional journey of an artist. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to his art until the very end, here is one of the most immortal singers of all time: MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR.
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MGM Plus
73
62
7.1
/4370/
64
/92/
64
/49/
3.5
/1035/
85
/72/
83
/561/
75
/19/

Sweet Land (2005)
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Netflix
61
6.0
/129122/
66
/10384/
71
/5144/
2.6
/291255/
51
/237/
91
/2795/
42
/51/
cc age 11+

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, humans Noah and Elena will do whatever it takes to help the Transformers as they engage in the ultimate battle to save Earth.
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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
73
58
6.8
/2214/
66
/91/
66
/71/
3.4
/1949/
100

Ellis (2015)
Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose pursuit of a new life led them to the now-shuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Following its opening in 1902, approximately 1.2 million people passed through the facility, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from the windows. Languishing in a sort of purgatory awaiting their fate, many were never discharged.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
57
7.2
/2147/
66
/27/
65
/33/
3.8
/3432/
89
/9/
84
/33/

Park Row (1952)
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
poster
Kanopy
69
51
7.0
/2329/
61
/30/
61
/31/
3.7
/5353/
81
/31/
69
/27/
cc age 11+

Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Hoopla
48
5.6
/16620/
61
/404/
54
/207/
2.7
/5895/
15
/40/
47
/388/

Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two sons: either level-headed veteran Anthony or vituperative loose cannon Joey.
poster
JustWatch TV
74
41
7.2
/1027/
70
/17/
71
/23/
3.8
/1369/
83
/166/

Four Sons (1928)
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
poster
Kanopy
64
29
6.9
/424/
65
/30/
59
/16/
3.4
/346/
75
/8/
47
/2/
68
/6/

Frank Serpico (2017)
In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells his story in the classic film “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino.
poster
Kanopy
61
24
6.6
/519/
55
/7/
62
/15/
3.4
/547/
58
/206/

The Italian (1915)
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.
poster
65
23
6.7
/656/
63
/14/
59
/10/
3.5
/399/
86
/7/
50
/2/

An American Romance (1944)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
poster
Hoopla
54
16
5.8
/1170/
60
/12/
37
/8/
64
/18/

Little City (1997)
Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer in town, Rebecca, promptly adds a whole new set of twists to an already tangled mix! Here's a hilarious look at how modern relationships have never been so complicated ... or so much fun!
poster
67
15
6.8
/948/
67
/11/
78
/11/
3.4
/533/
57
/3/

Romance in Manhattan (1935)
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
poster
?
7.9
/9/

Ellis Island (1997)
A Documentary About Ellis Island as told by the immigrants and historians.
poster
?
6.6
/20/

Strange Wives (1934)
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
poster
?
7.5
/47/
56
/3/
58
/4/

Ellis Island (1981)
Meredith Monk's "Ellis Island" is a haunting, reflective piece on Ellis Island and the immigrants who passed through there.
poster
?
5.4
/99/
60
/1/
50
/3/

Ellis Island (1936)
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
poster
61
?
6.3
/323/
62
/4/
59
/9/

My Boy (1921)
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
poster
?
5.5
/47/
43
/3/

Mariutch (1930)
An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mariutch Down at Coney Island.
poster
?
5.8
/34/
50
/1/

A Son of Erin (1916)
Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immediately land a job as a policeman. So he manages to scrape together the funds to get him to Manhattan, and leaves his sweetheart Katie O'Grady behind while he makes his fortune. Naturally he discovers that joining the force isn't as easy as he expected, and when he does finally get in, he winds up in trouble because of the graft collections of his boss.
poster
66
?
6.7
/403/
70
/1/
62
/6/

The Mating Call (1928)
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
poster
88
?
9.3
/16726/
84
/161/
89
/164/

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
Following the release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three Godfather movies into chronological order. As had the earlier compilations, this film incorporated scenes that are not part of the theatrical releases.
poster
63
?
7.1
/253/
60
/2/
60
/5/
3.4
/263/
57
/7/
67
/5/
58
/5/

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)
Documentary on the life and work of B-movie filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer, spanning from his early life to his last film.
poster
42
?
4.2
/106/
50
/2/
35
/2/

Arrival of Emigrants, Ellis Island (1906)
Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.2
/22/
10
/1/

The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972)
"A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has trouble fitting in at school and with his family."
poster
69
?
7.5
/119/
55
/2/
79
/6/

Santa Fe (1987)
After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.
poster
55
?
6.3
/336/
30
/4/
52
/5/
78
/2/

Across the Sea of Time (1995)
A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography.
poster
62
?
5.9
/287/
70
/1/
57
/247/

Paddy O'Day (1936)
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
poster
56
?
5.7
/389/
45
/2/
63
/3/

That Girl from Paris (1936)
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
poster
?
5.8
/18/

This Is Heaven (1929)
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
poster
67
?
7.4
/348/
61
/9/
62
/6/
3.5
/282/
71

Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
poster
71
?
7.1
/181/
74
/5/
72
/5/
3.5
/380/

East Side, West Side (1927)
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
poster
?
4.6
/14/

One More American (1918)
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.


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