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41) Aliyah
Series
Film Movement volume year 11, film 3
Language
Français
Description
Alex, a young Parisian drug dealer, longs to make a new beginning by opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv with his cousin and make "aliyah", the immigration of Diaspora Jews to Israel, but he must face conflicts that include leaving the city he loves, drug dealing, his complicated love life with a new woman, and a troubled older brother whom he is always financially rescuing.
Language
Español
Description
India María travels to the United States, where she works as an undocumented alien in Los Angeles. After accidentally witnessing the assassination of a political figure, María must go on the lam from "La Migra" (the immigration service), agents of the FBI (whom she assumes work for La Migra), and the assassins themselves.
43) Newland
Language
עברית
Description
"Leaving the devastation of World War II behind them, a little girl and her brother travel from Europe to Israel in search of family, hope, and future. Placed in a refugee camp on their arrival they are confronted by a world of colorful characters whose intrigues both terrify and tantalize them and are forced to face the difficult realities of a new land. Powerfully reflecting the complexities of Israeli society at its birth, Newland is a stunning...
Language
English
Description
A picturesque story of the landscapes through the territory of the human heart. A Pacific Northwest logging community in 1918 struggles to come to terms with the pain and prejudice of wartime America. Weaving an unlikely thread of forbidden love, racial tension, German opera lessons and a new game called basketball.
Language
English
Description
Nebraska in the 1880's is bleak, lonely, and far from what the Wild West is purported to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of the blue hotel represent the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince the Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him; the story inevitably ends in tragedy. However, who is responsible?...
Series
Criterion collection volume 609
Language
English
Description
A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...
Series
Language
English
Description
"A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as 'Colonel' Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
Language
English
Description
Rory O'Manion is a hot-headed and rebellious farmer, who has become increasingly fed up with his meager existence in British-controlled Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 19th century. He ironically meets and falls in love with Rachel Clement, the feisty daughter of a local English landlord, but he decides to set off to establish a new life in America without her.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, For Love or Country is a biopic about Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. It explores his life as an adult, when he becomes increasingly dissatisfied with Fidel Castro's constraints on his music and the politics of a "Revolution" that declares his real musical love, American jazz, illegal. The film is about Sandoval's struggles to remain true to his country, which he loves with a passion, while balancing it with his love for music,...
52) No hard feelings
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, was caught shoplifting. He is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets the siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to the test."--IMDb.
53) Icebox
Language
Español
Description
It tells the story of Óscar, a twelve-year-old Honduran boy who is forced to flee his home and seek asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the U.S. immigration system.
54) Guten Tag, Ramón
Language
Español
Description
"Ramón es un joven mexicano que después de intentar cruzar sin éxito la frontera de Estados Unidos, decide irse a Alemania para buscar a la tía de un amigo quien le dará trabajo Pero al llegar nunca encuentra a la tía Sin dinero, sin papeles y hablando únicamente español, sobrevive en las calles hasta que conoce a Ruth, una solitaria anciana jubilada Ella le ofrece apoyo sin hablar el mismo idioma, se comunican con mímica y dibujos Ambos...