Encanto

Encanto 2021

7.60

Il film racconta la storia di una famiglia straordinaria, i Madrigal, che vive nascosta tra le montagne della Colombia, in una casa magica, in una città vivace, in un luogo meraviglioso e incantato chiamato Encanto. La magia di Encanto ha donato a ogni bambino della famiglia un potere unico, dalla superforza al potere di guarire. Tutti tranne Mirabel. Ma quando scopre che la magia che circonda Encanto è in pericolo, Mirabel decide che lei, l'unica Madrigal ordinaria, può essere l'ultima speranza della sua straordinaria famiglia.

2021

Gran Torino

Gran Torino 2008

7.99

Walt Kowalski è un veterano della guerra in Corea e non sopporta che nell'abitazione di fianco alla sua viva una famiglia di asiatici. Le uniche sue passioni, oltre alla birra, sono il suo cane e un'auto modello Gran Torino, che viene sottoposta a continua manutenzione. La sua vita cambia il giorno in cui il giovane vicino Thao, spinto da una gang, si introduce nel suo garage. Walt lo fa fuggire, ma di lì a poco tempo assisterà a una violenta irruzione dei membri della gang con inatteso sconfinamento nella sua proprietà. In quell'occasione sottrarrà Thao alla violenza del branco, ottenendo la riconoscenza della sua famiglia.

2008

Ippocrate – Specializzandi in corsia

Ippocrate – Specializzandi in corsia 2014

6.53

Benjamin Barois ha ventitré anni e il sogno di diventare un grande medico. Ma per ora di grande ha solo il camice, offerto dall'ospedale e 'decorato' con macchie pulite. Per sei mesi dovrà occuparsi di dieci stanze e diciotto pazienti. Ad osservarlo il padre, primario autoritario nello stesso ospedale, ad affiancarlo Abdel Rezzak, medico algerino competente e umano "facente funzioni d'interno". Di guardia, una notte è chiamato a occuparsi di un paziente che accusa forti dolori addominali. Benjmain si limita a somministrargli un analgesico ma l'indomani l'uomo è morto. Padre e superiori coprono l'errore, la vedova chiede spiegazioni, Abdel pone domande, Benjamin è confuso. Deluso da se stesso, cerca la maniera di rimediare e di diventare un medico migliore.

2014

Aragoste a Manhattan

Aragoste a Manhattan 2024

6.93

Al The Grill, ristorante iperfrequentato di New York, lavora una moltitudine di persone, tra cucina, sala e uffici. Ognuno con i suoi problemi, ognuno con le sue isterie. Tra di loro ci sono Estela, che trova un posto di lavoro. Julia, che dovrà prendere una decisione importante e Pedro, a cui l'esperienza di cuoco cambierà per sempre la vita.

2024

Bittersweet

Bittersweet 2010

7.50

Dopo 20 anni vissuti all'estero, un fotografo torna nel suo paese d'origine, l'Egitto, dove si ritrova bloccato senza documenti e immerso in una cultura ora sconosciuta.

2010

Yellow Rose

Yellow Rose 2020

6.90

Yellow Rose è la storia di un'adolescente filippina che vive in una cittadina del Texas e che sogna di diventare una cantante country mentre deve decidere se rimanere con la famiglia o se lasciare l'unica casa che ha mai conosciuto...

2020

Green Card - Matrimonio di convenienza

Green Card - Matrimonio di convenienza 1990

6.10

Per sfuggire ai controlli dell'Ufficio immigrazione, George, un francese immigrato, e Bronte dopo aver concluso un matrimonio di convenienza, sono costretti ad inscenare una convivenza in principio disastrosa ma che si trasformerà in un grande amore..

1990

América

América 2005

6.60

Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.

2005

1899

1899 2022

7.49

When mysterious events change the course of an immigrant ship headed for New York in 1899, a mind-bending riddle unfolds for its bewildered passengers.

2022

The Border

The Border 2008

6.00

The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.

2008

Bordertown

Bordertown 2016

5.39

The comedy, which takes place in a fictitious desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, centers on the intertwining daily lives of neighbors Bud Buckwald and Ernesto Gonzales. Bud, a married father of three, is a Border Patrol agent who feels threatened by the cultural changes that have transformed his neighborhood. Living next door is Ernesto, an industrious Mexican immigrant and father of four, who is proud to be making it in America. As Bud and Ernesto’s paths begin to cross, their families become bound by friendship, romance and conflict.

2016

Bordertown

Bordertown 1995

4.00

Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.

1995

Amend: The Fight for America

Amend: The Fight for America 2021

7.10

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.

2021

Der Traum von der Neuen Welt

Der Traum von der Neuen Welt 2017

1

Recounts the largest migration movement in history in which 55 million Europeans left their home countries and set off to America.

2017

Stateless

Stateless 2020

6.50

Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.

2020

Ellis Island

Ellis Island 1984

4.56

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

1984

Sunnyside

Sunnyside 2019

5.18

A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to become American citizens.

2019

Casa Grande

Casa Grande 2023

5.00

Several families in the farmland of Northern California navigate universal themes of class, immigration, culture and family.

2023

The Tide of Life

The Tide of Life 1996

7.50

Tide of Life is a three-part miniseries adaptation of Catherine Cookson's 1976 novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC, it was broadcast on ITV1 over three Fridays in January 1996. Young housekeeper Emily Kennedy learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby, after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work for farmer Larry Birch. Another misfortune occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.

1996

Don't Forget the Driver

Don't Forget the Driver 2019

6.80

Coach driver and single dad Peter Green leads a life of ordinary routine until the discovery of a dead body on the docile Bognor shoreline and an unsettling meeting with a new arrival in town throws his life into chaos.

2019

Billy

Billy 1992

6.00

Billy is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC for half a season from January to May 1992. A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series stars Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself.

1992

SONA

SONA 2018

7.00

Forced to choose between her alien husband and her home planet, a United Earth Space Corps officer has no option but betrayal.

2018

Not Safe for Work

Not Safe for Work 2015

6.70

Not Safe for Work is a 2015 British comedy-drama series created and written by D.C. Moore for Channel 4. A group of disillusioned Londoner civil servants are forced to relocate to Northampton after public sector cuts, focusing on their personal and professional struggles as they navigate a new, less glamourous office environment.

2015

Immigration Nation

Immigration Nation 2020

6.90

With unprecedented access to ICE operations, as well as moving portraits of immigrants, this docuseries takes a deep look at U.S. immigration today.

2020

Small Town, Big Riot

Small Town, Big Riot 2024

1

Mobeen Azhar investigates how a protest outside an asylum seeker hotel turned into a riot, uncovering a blueprint for a national wave of violence that eight months later would affect us all.

2024

Borderforce USA: The Bridges

Borderforce USA: The Bridges 2019

7.50

A joint venture between Discovery and BBC Studios, offering unprecedented access to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection agency as they operate on the 28 bridges connecting the United States of America and Mexico. The lives and work of the DHS are followed and explored as they guard the border and process the millions of people who cross it every year, as well as finding a wide array of illegal contraband, much of it expertly concealed.

2019

Places in the heart

Places in the heart 2005

1

An Egyptian lawyer arrives in the United States and tells the story of his life and his defense of a doctor accused of killing her husband, Eman enters prison in the United States and meets another Egyptian prisoner, Maggie, Maggie dies inside the prison after a plotting prisoner to get rid of Iman and Maggie, Maggie returns to the United States in search of her missing son.

2005