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17 films tagged immigrants
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2017 · Family
A small bear with very good manners takes odd jobs around London to buy his aunt a birthday present, then loses it to a thief nobody believes exists. He keeps his temper and his marmalade habit throughout.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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2005 · Drama
Over two days in Los Angeles a dozen strangers collide in traffic, at gunpoint and in each other's houses, and race is in every exchange. The stories run in parallel and keep crossing.
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2015 · Drama
A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.
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2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2006 · Science fiction
Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.
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2007 · Crime
A London midwife has the diary of a girl who died in childbirth translated, and it points her at a Russian family who run more than a restaurant. Quiet and slow, then suddenly not, more than once.
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2023 · Animation
In a city where fire, water, earth and air people keep to their own neighbourhoods, a shopkeeper's daughter made of fire meets a water guy who cries at everything. Bright, busy, and built around her parents' shop.
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2017 · Romance
A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
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2020 · Drama
A Korean family move to a patch of Arkansas farmland in the 1980s so the father can grow vegetables to sell, and the grandmother comes over to help. Gentle and slow, seen largely through the youngest boy.
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2007 · Musical
A Dublin street singer and a Czech woman selling flowers spend a week writing and recording songs together. Small, shot on the street, and the songs are played all the way through.
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2014 · Family
A talking bear from Peru arrives at a London station with a suitcase and a label asking someone to look after him, and one family takes him in for a night. It is warm and fast, built for children with jokes aimed over their heads.
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2023 · Drama
Two children who were close in Seoul are pulled apart when one family emigrates, and they find each other again twice over the next twenty-four years. Very quiet, mostly two people talking, with years skipped in between.
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2017 · Comedy
A Pakistani-American stand-up comic is seeing a white grad student while his parents line up matches for him, and then she falls seriously ill. A lot of it is him in a hospital waiting room with her parents, who have only just met him.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A Chinese American writer flies to Changchun for a wedding the family has arranged so everyone can see her grandmother, who has not been told she is ill. Warm, awkward, and mostly meals.
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