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Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove
Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, undocumented...
Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, undocumented...
3) Frontera
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Set along the tumultuous Arizona-Mexico border, follows Miguel, a hardworking father and devoted husband who crosses the border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife of a former sheriff. Miguel's pregnant wife lands in the hands of corrupt Mexican "Coyote" smugglers as she tries to help her husband, while the ex-lawman investigates his wife's death and unearths evidence that could destroy one family's future.
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A Las Vegas hustler is engaged to the daughter of the city's most powerful and dangerous casino owner. But all bets are off when he falls in love with the ravishing Natasha, an illegal immigrant engaged to J's jealous and violent future brother-in-law. When their illicit romance is discovered, J and Natasha flee for the border with the police and relentless hired killers on their trail.
6) Samba
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A richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
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中文(繁體)
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Illegal immigrant Tietou loses his Chinese papers and can't return home. His fellow countrymen help him find illegal work. An incident causes Tietou to save the powerful Yakuza boss Toshinari Eguchi. The mobster offers him the job of boss over the Chinese illegal immigrants. However, his non-violent methods soon make him unpopular and he begins to lose control over his men which leads to a giant gang war.
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Written in a white-hot fury on the eve of the 2016 election, the stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan is creating a nationwide sensation. Bypassing the usual development path for plays, it has been signed up to open in five theaters across America in a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, starting in Los Angeles (March) and Denver (April) and continuing in the Washington, DC, area, Tucson,...
9) Border run
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Phoenix television reporter Sofie Talbert is a hard-nosed right-wing journalist who exposes liberal politicians soft on illegal immigration. But when her relief-worker brother goes missing in Mexico, Sofie's own south-of-the-border investigation traps her in a deadly underworld of migrants, smugglers and cold-blooded murder.
10) Frente al mar
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Español
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Lucia, regresa a su pueblo natal, tras la muerte de su padre. La tensión social generada por el racismo hacia los inmigrantes despierta en ella un inevitable sentimiento de lucha.
Lucia returns to her hometown that is changed by a wave of immigration. While fighting the community's racism towards the new illegal workers, she falls in love with Curro, a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the town's racism and tensions soon...
12) El viaje de Teo
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9-year-old Teo never knew his father until he came to his house one day and took him away. They cross the Mexico-US border illegally with the help of some unscrupulous 'coyotes'. During the night they are attacked by bandits and Teo is separated from his father. He finds himself lost and alone until he befriends Chuy who lives in the poorest side of a nearby town. Along with his help they set out on the daunting task of reuniting Teo with his father....
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Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront for counterfeit goods. Lucky's world is suddenly turned upside down when a woman appears, insisting her toddler is his son. While Lucky copes with his new domestic dilemma, Levon struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart.