A história dos Madrigal, uma família extraordinária que vive escondida numa casa mágica nas montanhas da Colômbia, numa vila vibrante num sítio mágico e maravilhoso chamado Encanto. A magia do Encanto concedeu um dom único, como superforça ou o poder de curar, a todas as crianças da família exceto a uma, Mirabel. Mas, quando descobre que a magia em redor do Encanto corre perigo, Mirabel decide que, sendo a única Madrigal vulgar, pode ser a última esperança da família.
As pessoas a quem Walt chamava vizinhos faleceram ou mudaram-se, e foram substituídas pelos Hmongs, imigrantes do sudeste asiático, que ele despreza. Uma noite, alguém tenta roubar o seu Gran Torino de 1972: o seu vizinho adolescente Thao, pressionado por um gang de Hmongs. No entanto, Walt defende o rapaz, o que o torna o herói do bairro, especialmente para a mãe de Thao e a irmã mais velha, Sue, que insistem que Thao trabalhe para Walt como forma de se redimir. Inicialmente, Walt nada quer ter a ver com essas pessoas, mas algum tempo depios coloca Thao a trabalhar, o que origina uma amizade improvável que vai mudar as suas vidas. Através da bondade da família de Thao, Walt finalmente compreende algumas verdades sobre as pessoas que ele não considerava vizinhos. E sobre si mesmo. Essas pessoas têm mais em comum consigo, do que ele tem com a sua própria família...
Um compositor francês imigrante nos Estados Unidos, George Faure (Gérard Depardieu), tenta permanecer no país. Para conseguir o green card, que lhe dará permanência definitiva nos Estados Unidos, se casa só no nome com uma americana, Brontë Parrish (Gérard Depardieu), que precisa de um marido para alugar em Manhattan um ótimo apartamento, em um prédio proibido para solteiros. Porém problemas surgem quando eles são investigados pelo departamento de imigração.
Depois que seu barco vira no Mar Mediterrâneo, um grupo de refugiados é resgatado por europeus ricos que lhes oferecem abrigo em uma ilha idílica. Mas o milagre logo se torna um pesadelo quando os salvadores se transformam em caçadores de homens implacáveis.
A eterna cidade luz é vista através do olhar de alguns dos mais aclamados cineastas do mundo. O resultado é um caleidoscópio de 18 histórias sobre alegria, separação, inesperados e estranhos encontros e, acima de tudo, sobre amor.
Na virada do século 19, a família Ratowitz emigra da Rússia para os Estados Unidos em busca de uma vida melhor. Não há gatos na América e as ruas são pavimentadas com queijo, acreditam eles. Chegando em Nova York, o pequeno ratinho Fievel fica maravilhado com a cidade e se perde dos pais. Começa uma incrível saga de encontros, desencontros, novas amizades e velhas ameaças através das perigosas ruas. Fievel – Um Conto Americano tem uma nota de 6,9 no IMDB.
Sucesso de crítica, Minha Adorável Lavanderia, filme indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Roteiro em 1986, é baseado num popular romance de autoria do escritor Hanif Kureishi. Dirigido pelo talentoso e premiado diretor Stephen Frears (A Rainha, Ligações Perigosas), o longa traz o ganhador do Oscar Daniel Day-Lewis (Meu Pé Esquerdo) no papel de Johnny, um jovem que se torna amigo de um paquistanês chamado Omar (Gordon Warnecke).Radicado na Inglaterra, Omar recebe a missão de cuidar da lavanderia de seu tio. Mas ele não imaginava os problemas que passaria a enfrentar. Sem dinheiro, mas com ótimas idéias para o negócio prosperar, Omar pede dinheiro emprestado a um traficante e convida o amigo Johnny, para trabalhar com ele. Até que o inesperado acontece... Omar e Johnny apaixonam-se um pelo outro.
Christy (Sarah Bolger) é uma garota de 11 anos cuja família se mudou recentemente, da Irlanda para os Estados Unidos. Ela vê seu novo lar como um local mágico e especial, onde sonhos podem se tornar realidade. Para seus pais a mudança é a chance de recomeçar a vida, depois da perda do filho mais novo.
Walter Vale, um professor de Economia de Connecticut, vai até Nova Iorque para fazer uma conferência e descobre que tem um casal a viver no seu apartamento de cidade: Tarek e Zainab são dois imigrantes ilegais que, após um período de desconfianças mútuas, o professor deixa ficar na sua casa enquanto não tiverem para aonde ir. Todavia, gradualmente, uma forte amizade irá nascer entre eles.
Aos 40 anos, Xavier (Romain Duris) está se separando de Wendy (Kelly Reilly), com quem tem dois filhos. Ela decide se mudar para Nova York após conhecer John (Peter Hermann), levando consigo as crianças. Sem aguentar ficar longe dos filhos, Xavier logo resolve deixar Paris e também se mudar para Nova York. Lá ele fica temporariamente hospedado na casa de sua grande amiga Isabelle (Cécile de France), que mantém um relacionamento amoroso com Ju (Sandrine Holt) e está grávida por inseminação artificial. Com o tempo, Xavier se adequa aos inevitáveis choques culturais e começa a criar uma rotina que lhe permita se manter economicamente, tendo que driblar a fiscalização do departamento de imigração, e ainda passar algum tempo com os filhos.
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.
Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea.
When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution — with liberty and justice for all.
Co-produced by The Open University, Immigration: How British Politics Failed explores the political reasons behind immigration rules and policies and why the real issue was never addressed.
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.
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.
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.
With unprecedented access to ICE operations, as well as moving portraits of immigrants, this docuseries takes a deep look at U.S. immigration today.
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.
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.
Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.
The Youth Documentary Academy proudly presents OUR TIME, a television series produced in association with public television that dives deeply into tough topics faced by teens across the nation.
Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she 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 as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
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.
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.
Several families in the farmland of Northern California navigate universal themes of class, immigration, culture and family.
Welcome to new Sweden. Will Kristina manage to seduce the janitor? Can the employment officer convince Mohammed to take a black job? Does the balloon man abuse helium?
Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria. From the initial shock to a gradual opening for dialogue, the series follows the paths of six exceptional young people who share their points of view. Through their eyes, Maisonneuve highlights both the importance and the fragility of living together in harmony in Quebec.
Documentary following Ireland's Customs teams as they, with the help of the Irish police, try to stop organised smugglers from bringing drugs, cars and even exotic animals into the country.
