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Directed by Gianni AmelioOrigin ItalieGenres DramaActors Enrico Lo Verso,
Fabrizio GifuniRating67%
Così ridevano (Ainsi, ils riaient) est divisé en six chapitres : Arrivi, Inganni, Soldi, Lettere, Sangue et Famiglie. Six volets correspondant à six années (de 1958 à 1964). Le protagoniste principal est un immigré sicilien venu retrouver son frère, Pietro, à Turin. Un récit d'immigration(s) mais surtout une histoire d'amour entre frères., 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe TornatoreOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Ksenia Rappoport,
Michele Placido,
Claudia Gerini,
Margherita Buy,
Pierfrancesco Favino,
Alessandro HaberRating73%
Irena (Kseniya Rappoport), a Ukrainian prostitute on the run, is determined to find a job in an elegant apartment building in northern Italy, and starts by cleaning the stairs. She does it in order to inch her way into working for a family residing in that building. She befriends Gina (Piera Degli Esposti), the nanny of the family's child, Thea (Clara Dossena), who also lives with them in their apartment. When the nanny is crippled in a fall—tripped by Irena—but presumed to be accidental, Irena is hired to take her place. Through flashbacks, viewers learn that Irena has been physically and emotionally abused, and forced to bear nine children, all taken away at birth to be sold to adoptive families. After stabbing her pimp and leaving him for dead, she sets out to find her youngest child, whom she believes is Thea; hence the plot to work for them. Adoption documents in the apartment convince her that Thea is indeed her daughter. The mother grows suspicious of Irena and fires her, despite the loving relationship that has grown up between Irena and the child. Irena's pimp stalks her and sends out thugs to beat her up as she walks down the street. He rigs her employer's car, leading to a crash in which Thea's mother is killed. The pimp forces Irena to drive him to a location that may or may not contain the money Irena stole from him when she left him for dead. During a struggle, he falls and is killed as his head hits a rock. Thea's father moves to a new apartment and prepares a room for Irena, but as the police suspect foul play around the death of Thea's mother, Irena is taken into custody. She reveals both that the true culprit is the pimp and that she killed him. She is tried, and sent to jail. Thea stops eating until the judge allows Irena to visit her in the hospital and feed her. DNA testing reveals that Thea is not her daughter after all. After she is out of jail, she finds Thea, a young lady now waiting for her., 2h1
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
Transport films,
La précarité,
Aviation films,
Films about language and translationActors Tom Hanks,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Stanley Tucci,
Barry Shabaka Henley,
Kumar Pallana,
Diego LunaRating73%
Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a traveler from the nation of Krakozhia, arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, only to find that his passport is suddenly no longer valid due to the outbreak of a civil war in his homeland. As a result, the United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation, and he is not permitted to either enter the country or return home as he is now stateless. Due to his inability to communicate in proper English, US Customs and Border Protection seizes his passport and airline ticket., 1h58
Directed by Emanuele CrialeseOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
La précarité,
L'émigrationActors Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Vincent Schiavelli,
Mohamed Zouaoui,
Filippo Pucillo,
Federica De Cola,
Isabella RagoneseRating67%
At the turn of the 20th century, the poor Mancuso family (headed by the widowed Salvatore, Vincenzo Amato), from Sicily, Italy, emigrates to the United States. They dream of the land of opportunity, where giant vegetables are grown, people swim in milk, and coins fall from the sky. Salvatore takes his family, as well as his old mother, Fortunata (Aurora Quattrocchi). While on the ship to America, many men find the British Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attractive. For administrative reasons, Lucy wants to marry Salvatore on arrival on Ellis Island. He agrees; he understands that she is not in love with him yet, but expects that will come., 2h10
Directed by Abdellatif KechicheOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
Medical-themed films,
La précarité,
Films about psychiatry,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Sami Bouajila,
Élodie Bouchez,
Bruno Lochet,
Aure Atika,
Virginie Darmon,
Mustapha AdouaniRating68%
Like Voltaire‘s Candide in his eponymous novel, Jallel, a young North-African man, dreaming of better prospects, immigrates illegally to France. He struggles at first as he is unable to find work and finds it difficult to make friends. But soon he gets to sell fruits in the underground, albeit illegally. He also makes some new friendsand then falls in love. But his dreams of success remain unrealized as he comes to discover and share the solidarity of the other outcasts going from one encounter to the other, making his way through Paris, from hostels to immigrant aid societies and social welfare groups, living among the excluded and the destitute., 1h36
Directed by Ken LoachOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
Films about the labor movement,
La précaritéActors Kierston Wareing,
Raymond Mearns,
Branko TomovićRating69%
Angie (Kierston Wareing), a young woman frustrated after being fired from her thirtieth dead-end job, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend and flatmate Rose (Juliet Ellis). Angie is able to build a successful business, while also dealing with a neglected son who gets in trouble at school and parents who disapprove of her venture. She also has to keep reassuring Rose that they will become legitimate once the business is on a firm financial footing - they do not have a licence, but Angie at least insists on only hiring workers with papers, not illegal immigrants., 2h27
Directed by Alejandro González IñárrituOrigin MexiqueGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about families,
Films about immigration,
Medical-themed films,
La précarité,
Films about cancerActors Javier Bardem,
Nasser Saleh,
Eduard Fernández,
Martina García,
Blanca Portillo,
Rubén OchandianoRating73%
Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo. He is separated from their mother Marambra, a woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by procuring work for illegal immigrants and managing a group of Chinese women producing forged designer goods along with the African street vendors who are selling them. He is able to talk to the dead and is sometimes paid to pass on messages from the recently deceased at wakes and funerals. When he is diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer leaving him with only a few months to live, his world progressively falls apart., 1h51
Directed by Arash T. RiahiOrigin AustriaGenres Drama,
AdventureThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Navíd Akhavan,
Fares Fares,
Ezgi Asaroğlu,
Behi Djanati Ataï,
Michael Niavarani,
Johannes SilberschneiderRating73%
For a Moment Freedom tells of the odyssey of three Iranians groups of refugees: a married couple with a child, two young men with two children, and two men who are friends despite the differences between them.