Immigrant Movies

  • 2026
    Melania

    Melania

    Melania

    02026HD

    Offering unprecedented access to the 20 days leading up to the 2025 Presidential Inauguration — through the eyes of the First Lady-elect...

    Melania
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    01970HD

    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?
  • 2008
    Long Story Short

    Long Story Short

    Long Story Short

    02008HD

    Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter,...

    Long Story Short
  • 2021
    Terwijl het liefde was

    Terwijl het liefde was

    Terwijl het liefde was

    02021HD

    Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This...

    Terwijl het liefde was
  • 1992
    Romper Stomper

    Romper Stomper

    Romper Stomper

    6.51992HD

    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had...

    Romper Stomper
  • 1991
    Mississippi Masala

    Mississippi Masala

    Mississippi Masala

    6.31991HD

    Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land...

    Mississippi Masala
  • 1941
    Come Live with Me

    Come Live with Me

    Come Live with Me

    6.81941HD

    Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

    Come Live with Me
  • 1970
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    01970HD

    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 1990
    Avalon

    Avalon

    Avalon

    6.6671990HD

    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...

    Avalon
  • 1962
    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

    01962HD

    This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

    Strangers for the Day
  • 2007
    New Boy

    New Boy

    New Boy

    6.4642007HD

    A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of...

    New Boy
  • 1994
    Double Happiness

    Double Happiness

    Double Happiness

    6.251994HD

    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...

    Double Happiness
  • 1994
    Names Live Nowhere

    Names Live Nowhere

    Names Live Nowhere

    2.81994HD

    A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are...

    Names Live Nowhere
  • 2011
    Almanya: Welcome to Germany

    Almanya: Welcome to Germany

    Almanya: Welcome to Germany

    6.62011HD

    After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they...

    Almanya: Welcome to Germany
  • 1949
    Annie Was a Wonder

    Annie Was a Wonder

    Annie Was a Wonder

    4.41949HD

    In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...

    Annie Was a Wonder
  • 2013
    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    02013HD

    A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
  • 1935
    Romance in Manhattan

    Romance in Manhattan

    Romance in Manhattan

    7.81935HD

    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...

    Romance in Manhattan
  • 1936
    Paddy O'Day

    Paddy O'Day

    Paddy O'Day

    71936HD

    A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

    Paddy O'Day
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    71976HD

    Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1970
    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    01970HD

    Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World