A classical dancer helps her violinist friend who turned out to be an illegal alien to win a competition and a scholarship to the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts.

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

When a Mexican woman loses contact with her son after he attempts to cross the border into the United States, she meets a young man who has been deported back to Mexico and both of their lives change in drastic ways.

It is the emotional tale of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant building a new life in 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland for the shores of New York City and is soon swept up by the intoxicating charms of new love. But when her new life is disrupted by her past, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. "Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic...

When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.

"[Story of] two strangers whose conflicting pursuits of the American dream lead to a fight for their hopes at any cost. What begins as a struggle over a rundown bungalow spirals into a clash that propels everyone involved toward a shocking resolution"--Container.

In the end of the nineteenth century, a widowed farmer and his young son come from an impoverished region of Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.

Follows the adventures of a Taiwanese family newly immigrated to the United States in the 1990s.

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.