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46 films tagged immigrants
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A Sudanese woman working as a caregiver in Cairo watches the tension build between other African migrants and the local gangs. A first feature, with a first-time lead.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
After her father dies, Lati throws herself into music against her Malian mother's wishes and tries to get a foothold in Barcelona's battle rap scene, coached by a former rapper. Music-led and close to her.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An eight-year-old girl watches her Hungarian family settle on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, while her oldest brother's behaviour turns dangerous. It stays down at the girl's level throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A young woman trained in martial arts comes to Rome looking for her missing sister, starting with the Chinatown restaurant she thinks was holding her. Local gangsters take an interest fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
On the set of a German film about the racist attacks of the nineties, a Quran is burned and every trace of it disappears. The assistant director asks what happened, and everyone tells her a different version.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
Two queer couples in Seattle strike a deal: he marries her to satisfy his family and keep his visa, and pays for her partner's next round of IVF in return. Warm and busy, mostly the four of them in one house.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
The youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family starts university in Paris and finds she is drawn to women, while trying not to let her family down. It stays close to her throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A Basque nurse goes into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, marries a jazz trumpet player, and later leaves again for Venezuela. It follows one woman across decades and countries.
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Little-known
2025 · Documentary
Five residents of Khartoum describe the coup and the fighting that drove them out of Sudan and into neighbouring countries. It is their own account, told in their own words.
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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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2026 · Thriller
A former American army officer living in Europe kills the criminals he believes the courts let go, most of them migrants, while the police try to work out who he is. Blunt and violent throughout.
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Little-known
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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2026 · Drama
A Romanian-Norwegian couple move to her remote home village in Norway, and when the authorities take an interest in how they raise their children their lives come apart. Based on a real case.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Buried in debt, a young man in Shantou goes to Thailand to find the grandfather who supposedly got rich there, and finds a different story in a bundle of old letters. Half of it is the 1950s.
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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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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A handful of young Berliners crowdfund a boat, fix up the old trawler themselves, and start pulling people out of the water between Libya and Europe. It is a true story, and the political pressure closes in as they go.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A boy who arrived as a refugee falls in with a man and then a woman, and the three of them make for a city in a broken-down world where his odd gifts start to show. It runs over three hours.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A 21-year-old moves to Spain with her younger brother to live with the mother who left for there eight years earlier. A close-up family story, taken from Brenda Navarro's novel.
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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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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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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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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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Little-known
2024 · Drama
Two nurses share a flat in Mumbai, one waiting on a husband who never writes and one seeing a man her family would not accept, and they take a trip to the coast. Slow and observational.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
In a Dakar suburb a girl promised to a rich man loves a builder who leaves by sea for Spain, and then strange things start happening at night. Half romance and half something else.
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Little-known
2006 · Drama
A rifle sold in Morocco links four families across three continents over a few days. The stories are told out of order and never quite meet.
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2002 · Comedy
A London teenager plays football for a women's team without telling her Punjabi parents, who have other plans for her. Warm and light, and it moves quickly.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon start selling fried cakes made with milk taken at night from the only cow in the territory. Very slow and very gentle.
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Little-known
2021 · Documentary
An Afghan refugee in Copenhagen tells a friend, for the first time, how he actually got to Denmark. Animated so that he could say it, with archive news cut in.
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2007 · Animation
A girl grows up through the Iranian revolution and is sent alone to school in Vienna as a teenager. Black and white animation, and funnier than you would expect.
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Little-known
2022 · Drama
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of leaving her baby on a beach, and finds her own life in it. Almost entirely static shots of people giving testimony.
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1983 · Crime
A Cuban refugee arrives in Miami in 1980 and works his way up the cocaine trade until he has more than he can hold. Long, loud and endlessly quoted.
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2025 · Action
Superman intervenes in a foreign invasion and the world argues about whether he should have, while a billionaire works on getting rid of him. Bright, busy and openly hopeful.
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2005 · Thriller
Five stories about oil, from a CIA officer to a Pakistani migrant worker to a Washington law firm, told without connecting them for you. Deliberately hard to follow.
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1974 · Crime
Michael Corleone consolidates the family business in Nevada and Cuba, cut against his father arriving in New York as a boy. Over three hours, in two time periods.
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Little-known
2010 · Thriller
An ethnic Korean taxi driver in China takes a contract killing in Seoul to clear his gambling debts and find his wife. Very long and increasingly frantic.
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2021 · Musical
Two gangs fight over a few blocks of New York being demolished around them, and a boy from one falls for a girl from the other. Big numbers, filmed in the street.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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