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, 1h43Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about sexuality, La précarité, Films based on plays
Actors Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Elizabeth Peña, Tracy Nelson, Carlton Cuse
David "Dave" Whiteman (Dreyfuss) and his wife, Barbara (Midler), are a couple whose 20-year marriage is unfulfilling. Dave is having an affair with the live-in maid (Elizabeth Peña), while Barbara tries to relieve her constant feelings of anxiety by experimenting with various New Age therapies.
Brooklyn (2015)
, 1h51Directed by John Crowley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Emily Bett Rickards, Julie Walters
Young Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of the USA, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's (Jane Brennan) home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Machete (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Rodríguez, Ethan Maniquis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité, Children's films
Actors Danny Trejo, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodríguez, Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Lohan, Daryl Sabara
The story revolves around Machete Cortez (Danny Trejo), a former Mexican Federal. The film opens in Mexico with Machete and his younger partner on a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl (Mayra J. Leal). During the operation, his partner is killed, the kidnapped girl stabs him before being killed herself, and Machete is betrayed by his corrupt Chief to the powerful drug lord, Rogelio Torrez (Steven Seagal), who kills Machete's wife and implies that he will kill his daughter before leaving him for dead.
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
, 2h20Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin German
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Films about capital punishment, La cécité
Actors Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
The film is set in Washington state in 1964 and focuses on Selma Ježková (Björk), a Czech immigrant who has moved to the United States with her son, Gene Ježek (Vladica Kostic). They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve), whom she nicknames "Cvalda" (which means "chubby" in Czech). She rents a trailer home on the property of town policeman Bill Houston (David Morse) and his wife Linda (Cara Seymour). She is also pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff (Peter Stormare), who also works at the factory.
Germinal (1993)
, 2h40Directed by Claude Berri, Frédéric Auburtin
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Anny Duperey, Judith Henry
Vers la fin du XIX siècle, Étienne Lantier, machineur au chômage, arrive à la mine « Le Voreux », dans le nord de la France. Après la mort d'une mineuse du nom de Fleurance, il est engagé. Il est envoyé dans un petit groupe dirigé par Toussaint Maheu, qui devient son ami. La famille Maheu compte dix personnes : Maheu, mineur, son père, travaillant également à la mine, sa femme, la Maheude, et leurs enfants. Zacharie, Catherine et Jeanlin, les ainés, travaillent eux aussi à la mine ; Alzire, bossue, garde le lit ; Léonore, Henri et le petit dernier sont encore trop petits pour travailler.
East Is East (1999)
, 1h36Directed by Damien O'Donnell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about immigration, Théâtre, La précarité, Films based on plays
Actors Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi, Gary Lewis, Raji James, Jimi Mistry
Jahangir "George" Khan is a Pakistani Muslim who has lived in England since 1937. He has a wife in Pakistan. He and his second wife Ella, a British Roman Catholic woman of Irish descent, have been married for 25 years and have 7 children together: Nazir, Abdul, Tariq, Maneer, Saleem, Meenah, and Sajid. George and Ella run a popular fish and chips shop in the neighbourhood.
In America (2003)
, 1h45Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou, Sarah Bolger, Tom Murphy
In 1982, Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their daughters Christy and Ariel enter the United States on a tourist visa via Canada, where Johnny was working as an actor. The family settles in New York City, in a rundown Hell's Kitchen tenement occupied by drug addicts, transvestites, and a reclusive Nigerian artist/photographer named Mateo Kuamey. Hanging over the family is the death of their five-year-old son Frankie, who died from a brain tumor. The devout Roman Catholic Johnny questions God and has lost any ability to feel true emotions, which has affected his relationship with his family. Christy believes she has been granted three wishes by her dead brother, which she only uses at times of near-dire consequences for the family as they try to survive in New York.
Biutiful (2010)
, 2h27Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about cancer
Actors Javier Bardem, Nasser Saleh, Eduard Fernández, Martina García, Blanca Portillo, Rubén Ochandiano
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.
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
, 1h55Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Circus films, Films about immigration, Films about music and musicians, Politique, La précarité, Jazz films, Political films
Actors Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Elya Baskin, Alejandro Rey, Paul Mazursky
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and Soviet political repression of the early 1980s prior to perestroika, Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams), a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family. He stands in lines for hours to buy toilet paper and shoes. When the apparatchik assigned to the circus (Kramarov as Boris) criticizes Vladimir for being late to rehearsal and suggests Vladimir may miss the approaching trip to New York, Vladimir gives Boris a pair of shoes from the queue that made Vladimir late.
C'est la vie! (2017)
, 1h57Directed by Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Films about marriage
Actors Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Macaigne, Eye Haïdara, Alban Ivanov
Max, un organisateur de mariage expérimenté, doit gérer le mariage de Pierre et Héléna dans un château de prestige. Il doit faire appel à une équipe de serveurs, trouver des cuisiniers, un photographe, un orchestre et un animateur tout en gérant les demandes et problèmes de chacun, mais aussi les siens.
Paris (2008)
, 2h10Directed by Cédric Klapisch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité
Actors Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, François Cluzet, Albert Dupontel, Mélanie Laurent
The film is set principally in Paris, with one thread of the story set in Africa. Over the course of several months, various stories are intertwined, with different characters and plot threads intersecting.
Under the Same Moon (2008)
, 1h44Directed by Patricia Riggen
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité, Children's films
Actors Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, America Ferrera, Jesse Garcia, Maya Zapata, Sonya Smith
The film tells the story of Rosario (Kate del Castillo), a mother who illegally immigrates to the United States, and her nine-year-old son, Carlitos (Adrián Alonso). Rosario and Carlitos have not seen each other in four years, since Carlitos was five. Rosario, now living in Los Angeles, California, calls her son, (still in Mexico), every Sunday at 10 A.M. from a payphone. Carlitos lives in a small Mexican village with his sick grandmother and his oppressive aunt and uncle, who try to take custody of him in order to get the money that Rosario sends to him. One day, while working for a woman named Carmen (Carmen Salinas), Carlitos encounters two American immigrant transporters (coyotes), Martha (America Ferrera) and David (Jesse Garcia), who offer to smuggle small children across the border.
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
, 1h46Directed by Philippe Le Guay
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Natalia Verbeke, Sandrine Kiberlain, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Audrey Fleurot
Set in Paris in the 1960s, the film is a social comedy that pits the propriety of a well-to-do French family with the earthiness and humour of Spanish cleaning ladies who work in their apartment building. It follows Monsieur Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), an unadventurous stockbroker, as he befriends the Spanish maids who live on the top floor of his building. Maria (Natalia Verbeke), his new maid, introduces him to her compatriots and their simple but happy lives animated by friendship and folklore, in contrast to the relative emotional austerity of his own life. Slowly he recovers his joie de vivre by tasting life's simple pleasures; when his wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) falsely accuses him of having an affair he moves into an empty room in the servants' quarters upstairs, the first time he has had a bedroom of his own.
The Namesake (2006)
, 3h44Directed by Mira Nair
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kal Penn, Zuleikha Robinson, Jacinda Barrett, Sebastian Roché
The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli (Irrfan Khan and Tabu), two first-generation immigrants from West Bengal, India to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonia (Sahira Nair). The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, India; New York City; and various New York state suburbs.
The Visitor (2008)
, 1h44Directed by Tom McCarthy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Richard Kind, Marian Seldes
Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is a widowed Connecticut College economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. He fills his days by sometimes taking piano lessons in an effort to emulate his late wife, a classical concert pianist, and infrequently works on a new book. When he is asked to present a paper at an academic conference at New York University, he is not enthusiastic to make the trip, given he is only the nominal co-author and has never even read the complete work. Charles (Michael Cumpsty), his department head, insists and Walter is forced to attend.