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1. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 47,914 | Gross: $80.50M
2. Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Russian saxophonist visiting New York City with a USSR circus troupe suddenly decides to defect in Bloomingdale's.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey
Votes: 13,137 | Gross: $25.10M
3. Spanglish (2004)
PG-13 | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 88,579 | Gross: $42.73M
4. Crossing Over (2009)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama
Crossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.
Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Jim Sturgess
Votes: 24,537 | Gross: $0.45M
5. Night on Earth (1991)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott
Votes: 66,057 | Gross: $2.02M
6. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark
Votes: 40,687 | Gross: $2.44M
7. The Namesake (2006)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Jacinda Barrett
Votes: 21,768 | Gross: $8.66M
8. Quinceañera (2006)
R | 90 min | Drama
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castanos
Votes: 4,301 | Gross: $1.69M
9. Hester Street (1975)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh
Votes: 1,886 | Gross: $5.00M
10. Double Happiness (1994)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Romance
East clashes with West and generations collide as a young Chinese woman struggles to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams.
Director: Mina Shum | Stars: Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Claudette Carracedo, Greg Chan
Votes: 1,245 | Gross: $0.76M
11. Broken English (1996)
NC-17 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her ... See full summary »
Director: Gregor Nicholas | Stars: Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga, Rade Serbedzija, Marton Csokas
Votes: 740 | Gross: $0.48M
12. From the Edge of the City (1998)
Unrated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panagiotis Chartomatsidis, Anestis Polychronidis
Votes: 1,474
13. Sorry, Haters (2005)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
Director: Jeff Stanzler | Stars: Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez, Aasif Mandvi
Votes: 1,538 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Hey, Jeannie! (1956–1957)
30 min | Comedy
Jeannie MacLennan, a cheerful and carefree Scottish woman, arrives in New York without a job or knowing anyone. Cabbie Al Murray is one of the first people she meets and he agrees to ... See full summary »
Stars: Jeannie Carson, Allen Jenkins, Jane Dulo, Jack Kirkwood
Votes: 60
15. Tamo i ovde (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
In two interconnected stories, jaded middle-aged New Yorker Robert goes to Serbia to make quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the promised ... See full summary »
Director: Darko Lungulov | Stars: David Thornton, Mirjana Karanovic, Cyndi Lauper, Branislav Trifunovic
Votes: 1,081 | Gross: $0.03M
16. Men at Lunch (2012)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Mystery
The story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Director: Seán Ó Cualáin | Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, Peter Quinn, Ric Burns, Christine Roussel
Votes: 351 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Autumn Moon (1992)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Twentysomething Japanese tourist, Tokio, comes to Hong Kong looking for good cuisine. He does all that the tourist is expected to do, but is disappointed with the food so far. By chance, he... See full summary »
Director: Clara Law | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Pei-Hui Li, Siu Wan Choi, Maki Kiuchi
Votes: 375
18. Las cartas de Alou (1990)
100 min | Drama
Alou, an illegal African inmigrant, send letters to his parents talking about his new life in Spain.
Director: Montxo Armendáriz | Stars: Mulie Jarju, Eulàlia Ramon, Ahmed El-Maaroufi, Akonio Dolo
Votes: 260
19. West Is West (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Handsome and broke, Vikram arrives from Bombay to the US to find his college plans have fallen through. Exploring exotic San Francisco, he discovers and falls for Sue, a feisty bohemian artist.
Director: David Rathod | Stars: Ashutosh Gowariker, Heidi Carpenter, Pearl Padamsee, Rex Delgado
Votes: 87
20. No Problem (II) (2001)
18 min | Short, Family
A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes to an American school, and he's the ... See full summary »
Director: Gene Lushtak | Stars: Tamerlan Allakhverdiev, Pat Atkins, Milla Nova, Te'ron A. O'Neal
Votes: 36
21. Alma gitana (1996)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these ... See full summary »
Director: Chus Gutiérrez | Stars: Amara Carmona, Pedro Alonso, Peret, Rafael Álvarez 'El Brujo'
Votes: 120
22. La femme de Rose Hill (1989)
95 min | Drama
Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill (Mauritius) who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Marie Gaydu, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Denise Péron, Roger Jendly
Votes: 109
23. Er di (2003)
120 min | Drama
The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Yihong Duan, Yan Shu, Zhi-Liang Wang, Yiwei Zhao
Votes: 308
24. Un paradiso senza biliardo (1991)
113 min | Comedy
It's the 1950s and Giuseppe gets a letter from his friend Franco who is working in Sweden. He writes that Sweden is a wonderful country with high salaries, free health care and most ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Barsotti | Stars: Paolo Migone, Gianluca Favilla, Giacomo Poretti, Giuseppe Nesi
Votes: 33
25. Der Nächste bitte! (2000)
5 min | Short, Comedy
A man from Kosovo wants to become a German citizen. A German official does not.
Director: Stefan Lampadius | Stars: Thomas Lang, Georg Prasser
26. Saïd (1998)
100 min | Drama
Saïd is convinced that life in Europe will be wonderful. The small boat in which he crosses the strait of Gibraltar is the first thing that disappoints him, and when he arrives in Barcelona... See full summary »
Director: Llorenç Soler | Stars: Noufal Lhafi, Núria Prims, Marouane Mribti, Mercedes Sampietro
Votes: 75
27. Kokonainen (2005)
Short
Director: Alexis Kouros | Stars: Maryan Guuleed, Maryan Ali Waes, Badal Ahmed Hassan, Nafisa Ali
Votes: 10
28. Mohamed (2001)
4 min | Short, Drama
It seems that everyone blames Mohamed, a Moroccan immigrant in Spain, because of his origins. Ignorance is the worst disease.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Mohamed Bouachmir, Lavinia Hervás, Mingo Ràfols, Carlos Buetas
Votes: 10
29. Both a friend and a reason to smile (2011)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
This story begins with Rachel and her new life in Catalonia, after having left her native Brazil along with her brother Kevin and her grandparents, in order to be reunited with her mother here in Catalonia.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Yailin Cruz Espinal, Sandra Mateo Martínez, Ahmed Akhtari, Raúl Campillo Romero
30. Naapurit (2013 TV Movie)
73 min | Documentary
Cultures collide in the neighbourhood at the country side. The Finn is in charge of the house committee and takes care of common wellbeing. He has challenges and he challenges himself with ... See full summary »
Director: Tuija Halttunen | Stars: Pekka Jalonen, Omar Moham, Faiz Ali Kochi
Votes: 22
32.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
(1986)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Wayne Rogers, Mary Kay Place, Kieu Chinh, Kathleen Sisk
Votes: 235