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101. Earthflight (2011–2012)
59 min | Documentary
A nature documentary about a bird's-eye view of the natural world, joining the journeys of snow geese, cranes, albatrosses, eagles and other birds across six continents. Beginning in North ... See full summary »
Star: David Tennant
Votes: 618
102. Atlantiques (2009)
Not Rated | 16 min | Documentary, Short
Directed by Mati Diop (35 rhums), Atlantiques recounts the odyssey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing. Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Alpha Diop, Cheikh M'Baye, Ouli Seck, Serigne Seck
Votes: 692
103. Bubot Niyar (2006)
80 min | Documentary
A group of transgender and gay Filipinos people emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group ... See full summary »
Director: Tomer Heymann
Votes: 190 | Gross: $0.04M
104. Banaue: Stairway to the Sky (1975)
TV-PG | 154 min | Drama, Romance
The Ifugao tribe's quest for the promised land is paved with good intentions.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon, Gloria Sevilla, Johnny Delgado
Votes: 40
105. Disha (1992)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The Sarpat family, who live in Bhukari, consist of Parsaram, who has been involved in digging a well for the past over 12 years and is now called 'Pagal Parsa'; his brother, Soma, who gets ... See full summary »
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Rajshree Sawant
Votes: 162
106. The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011)
80 min | Documentary
The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.
Director: U. Roberto Romano | Star: Perla Sanchez
Votes: 73 | Gross: $0.00M
107. I Love Vienna (1991)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Houchang Allahyari | Stars: Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Dolores Schmidinger, Hanno Pöschl, Kouros Allahyari
Votes: 134
108. Nuyorican Básquet (2017)
108 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The dramatic story of Puerto Rico's 1979 National Basketball Team, whose players were mainly born or raised in New York.
Directors: Ricardo Olivero Lora, Julio César Torres | Stars: Carlos Romero Barceló, Michael Killanin, Roman Perez, Pedro Pietri
Votes: 91
109. Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016– )
173 min | Documentary
Shot over 3 years in 31 countries, continuing to follow the refugee crisis in Europe. Finding out what happened to some of the people featured previously and meeting others still making the journey.
Stars: Tariq, Isra, Paul Bown, Dominic Rowan
Votes: 73
110. Saf (2018)
102 min | Drama
The Fikirtepe district of Istanbul. Urban transformation is sweeping away the poor communities and Syrian refugees take shelter in deserted buildings. Kamil and his wife Remziye risk losing... See full summary »
Director: Ali Vatansever | Stars: Erol Afsin, Saadet Aksoy, Onur Buldu, Nazli Cetinel
Votes: 525
111. Land in Between (1996)
78 min | Drama
Three episodes of everyday immigration in 90s Italy: a group of Nigerian prostitutes, one-day Albanian workers, an Egyptian worker at an oil station.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Pascal, Barbara, Tina, Euglen Sota
Votes: 211
112. Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary
David Attenborough takes us into the remarkable lives of hummingbirds via stunning slow motion photography. Everything about these tiny birds is superb and extreme. They have the highest ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Reddish | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 274
113. Life Triumphs (1977)
92 min | Drama
This story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, is an eternal story of resurrection.
Director: Henrik Malyan | Stars: Sos Sargsyan, Sofik Sarkisyan, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Galya Novents
Votes: 436
114. Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story (2018)
90 min | Documentary
In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand ... See full summary »
Directors: Janus Metz, Sine Plambech
Votes: 274
115. Cracked Quack (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Daffy Duck takes shelter from a blizzard by sneaking into a cozy home owned by Porky Pig. Daffy tries to secretly mooch off of Porky for an entire winter, but Porky's dog realizes that ... See full summary »
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 434
116. Die Anhörung (2023)
81 min
Four rejected asylum seekers relive their reasons for fleeing their home countries and question the core of the asylum process itself.
Director: Lisa Gerig | Star: Living Smile Vidya
Votes: 32
117. Qazi (2021)
81 min | Drama
Qazi is the story of a young Pakistani refugee who is forced by economic and family circumstances to seek his fortune in Europe.
Directors: Anil Fastenau, Jakob Gehrmann | Stars: Davis Akobundo, Armando Casado, Anil Fastenau, Erwin Geisler
Votes: 216
118. El carro de la muerte (1984)
85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Jesús Marín | Stars: Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán, Rosenda Bernal, Sergio Goyri, Víctor Alcocer
119. Destination Planet Negro (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America revealing much about race today.
Director: Kevin Willmott | Stars: Tosin Morohunfola, Danielle Cooper, Kevin Willmott, Trai Byers
Votes: 177
120. X500 (2016)
104 min | Drama
Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds.
Director: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia | Stars: Jembie Almazan, Jonathan Diaz Angulo, Bernardo Garnica Cruz
Votes: 240
121. The Goose Goes South (1941)
Approved | 6 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
The geese are flying south all except for the runty one that's the focus of this cartoon. He tries hitchhiking, but since nobody picks him up (though one car stops and gives him a ... See full summary »
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Sara Berner, Frank Bingman, Mel Blanc, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 290
122. First Peoples (2015)
272 min | Documentary, History
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are 7 billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global ... See full summary »
Stars: Kerry Shale, John Hawks, Svante Pääbo, Eske Willerslev
Votes: 145
123. Zoros Solo (2019)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master.
Director: Martin Busker | Stars: Mert Dincer, Andrea Sawatzki, Laurids Schürmann, Hadi Khanjanpour
Votes: 96
124. Diggers (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary film about the black men who came from the West Indies (primarily Barbados and Jamaica) to work on the construction of the Panama Canal from 1881 to 1914.
Director: Roman J. Foster | Stars: Brock Peters, John Woodcliff Bowen, Benjamin Jordan, Egbert Cleveland Leslie
125. The Message (2024)
10 min | Short, Drama
In a dull and lonely life, Salem decides to leave a message for the one who needs it most.
Director: Reinhard Koller-Astleithner | Stars: Salem Alhadji, Inge Freitag, Elise Harder, Claudio Hiller
126. Rohbau (2023)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.
Director: Tuna Kaptan | Stars: Kasem Hoxha, Michael Kranz, Heinrich Horwitz, Sokol Angjeli
Votes: 10
127. The Romanians Are Coming (2015– )
Documentary
The lives of poor Romanian people who seek work in Great Britain, seen through the eyes of the British people.
Star: Alex Fechete Petru
Votes: 231
128. Again... Pioneers (1950)
72 min | Drama, Family
Ken Keeler, a lawyer in the small town of Fairview, learns that children from "The Patch", a run-down migrant camp outside of town, will be attending the town's school. Not long afterwards ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Colleen Townsend, Tom Powers, Sarah Padden, Regis Toomey
Votes: 37
129. Karbid und Sauerampfer (1963)
85 min | Comedy
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Marita Böhme, Manja Behrens, Margot Busse
Votes: 309
130. Los Cayucos de Kayar (2024)
29 min | Documentary, Short | Completed
After many years living in Spain, migrant Thimbo Samb returns to his home town, Kayar, a picturesque fishing village on the coast of Senegal. There he discovers that his outlook on life and his worldview have forever changed.
Director: Álvaro Hernández Blanco | Stars: Thimbo Samb, Alpha Sy, Sophia Faye, Mbaye Samb
131. Letter to America (2000)
90 min | Drama
Ivan's best friend, Kamen, is in an American hospital, in coma after an accident. Since he's denied a visa to the USA and can't stay by his side in his last moments, Ivan decides to set off... See full summary »
Director: Iglika Triffonova | Stars: Phillip Avramov, Ana Papadopulu, Peter Antonov, Andy Barret
Votes: 786
132. Tiempo de lluvia (2018)
89 min | Drama
Soledad, a traditional healer, lives with her grandson Jose in an Indigenous Village. Soledad's daughter, Adela, moved to Mexico City many years ago and now wants Jose to join her, but Soledad believes the boy is better off in the village.
Director: Itandehui Jansen | Stars: Harold Torres, Noé Hernández, Alejandra Herrera, Ángeles Cruz
Votes: 76
133. People of the Wind (1976)
G | 110 min | Documentary
There are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Howarth | Stars: James Mason, Shusha Guppy, Anthony Howarth
Votes: 143
134. Laboratory Greece (2019)
165 min | Documentary
A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.
Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos
Votes: 32
135. Dar-Badar
45 min | Drama | Completed
Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu ... See full summary »
Director: Rohit Khaitan | Stars: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nidhi Joshi, Shoaib Lodin
136. Hearts of Salt
Drama | Filming
As a British ornithologist arrives in Sicily to research the climate change effects on migration, he witnesses a series of dramatic events. Relinquishing his role of a detached observer will be more challenging than it seems.
Director: Rosa Russo | Stars: Alexander Vlahos, Eleonora De Luca, Roberta Rigano, Gaetano Aronica
137. Diyet (1974)
90 min | Drama
Hasan recently joins a factory where Hacer works and brings hope to her life. Their story unfolds against a backdrop of 70's class struggle.
Director: Lütfi Ö. Akad | Stars: Hülya Koçyigit, Hakan Balamir, Erol Tas, Erol Günaydin
Votes: 809
138. It's Winter (2006)
86 min | Drama
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Director: Rafi Pitts | Stars: Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Said Orkani, Hashem Abdi
Votes: 658
139. Mind the Gap (2019)
86 min | Documentary
The crisis of western democracies is ubiquitous and recovery not on the horizon. Accompanying people from various European countries, the film is on the search for the reasons behind the alarming situation.
Director: Robert Schabus | Stars: David van Reybrouck, Paul Magnette, Günter Verheugen, Harald Schumann
Votes: 29
140. Fallow (2015)
80 min | Drama
Fortress Europe has collapsed. North-Europeans are forced to migrate. Lucas, a middle-class man gets stranded in a coastal village in search of a passage to a brighter elsewhere. Through ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Van Lancker | Stars: Sam Louwyck, Aurora Marion, Ken Ndiaye, Willy Thomas
Votes: 20
141. The Promised Land (1995– )
Documentary
This program documents the migration of rural Southern blacks from the segregated South to Chicago. Cultural and political gains become offset by overcrowding and increasing ghettoization, ... See full summary »
Star: Morgan Freeman
Votes: 32
142. ¡Olé... Cuba! (1957)
85 min | Comedy
When a Spaniard decides to illegally enter La Habana by swimming, two rogues help him to find work in a sugar mill, where the emigrant falls in love with the plant owner's daughter.
Director: Manuel de la Pedrosa | Stars: Leopoldo Fernández, Aníbal de Mar, Miguel Herrero, Mimí Cal
Votes: 15
143. Journey of Man (2003 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Traces the expansion of the human race from central Africa to Asia to the edge of South America.
Director: Clive Maltby | Stars: William H. Calvin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Nina Jablonski, Richard Klein
Votes: 240
144. Outlanders (2007)
95 min | Drama, Crime, Romance
After his father's death, Adam hitchhikes to London from his hometown in Poland to find his older brother, a former Polish football star, now supplying illegal migrant workers to the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Dominic Lees | Stars: Jakub Tolak, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Alexis Raben, Shaun Dingwall
Votes: 210
145. Ten Pound Poms (2007)
52 min | Documentary
The stories of the one million post-war Britons who paid ten pounds to emigrate to Australia in one of the biggest planned migrations of the twentieth century.
Director: Lisa Matthews | Stars: John Waters, David Bailey, Elizabeth Britton, John Cannon
Votes: 35
147. América (2010)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and ... See full summary »
Director: João Nuno Pinto | Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Fernando Luís, María Barranco, Dinarte Branco
Votes: 224
148. Daffy's Southern Exposure (1942)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
It's the dead of winter, and Daffy Duck is starving. A fox and a weasel invite him into their cabin and feed him beans. But they have an ulterior motive--namely eating Daffy.
Director: Norm McCabe | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, June Foray
Votes: 329
149. Italiani (1996)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
Director: Maurizio Ponzi | Stars: Giulio Scarpati, Giuliana de Sio, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Vanessa Gravina
Votes: 123
150. Guests (1998)
68 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Julian Sota, Llazar Sota, Corrado Sassi, Pasqualino Mura
Votes: 213