Migrant Worker Movies

  • 2021
    Dignity Keeper

    Dignity Keeper

    Dignity Keeper

    02021HD

    When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...

    Dignity Keeper
  • 2023
    Norwegian Dream

    Norwegian Dream

    Norwegian Dream

    5.7752023HD

    Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly...

    Norwegian Dream
  • 2024
    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

    02024HD

    Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles...

    Nurse Unseen
  • 2000
    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    7.72000HD

    This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

    The Charcoal People
  • 2016
    Brothers of the Night

    Brothers of the Night

    Brothers of the Night

    5.12016HD

    Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell...

    Brothers of the Night
  • 2017
    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    62017HD

    A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...

    Terrain Vague
  • 1994
    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    5.51994HD

    Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

    Money for Bread
  • 2024
    Personale

    Personale

    Personale

    02024HD

    Folding towels, straightening out sheets, taking bathrobes out of the dryer, stripping beds, cleaning up vomit. Fluffing pillows—making a dent...

    Personale
  • 2016
    The Ambassador's Wife

    The Ambassador's Wife

    The Ambassador's Wife

    02016HD

    The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is...

    The Ambassador's Wife
  • 2017
    Borders

    Borders

    Borders

    02017HD

    A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before...

    Borders
  • 2024
    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    02024HD

    Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...

    Beyond Ratings
  • 2013
    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    5.22013HD

    Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...

    Sex: My British Job
  • 2018
    YAYA

    YAYA

    YAYA

    72018HD

    YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her...

    YAYA
  • 2026
    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

    02026HD

    Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers from all over scramble before the frost puts an...

    The Blueberry Blues
  • 2015
    Nia's Door

    Nia's Door

    Nia's Door

    02015HD

    Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers,...

    Nia's Door
  • 2020
    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

    02020HD

    This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...

    The Lucky Woman
  • 2008
    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    Immokalee U.S.A.

    02008HD

    Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food...

    Immokalee U.S.A.
  • 2016
    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    7.32016HD

    Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

    Farewell Ferris Wheel
  • 2023
    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

    02023HD

    In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

    A Thousand Pines
  • 2014
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    02014HD

    Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down...

    Once Upon a Time