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Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.
4) Shelter me
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lesbian couple Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that a young Moroccan immigrant has managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. They decide to take him in, leading to unexpected consequences for their family."--Container.
Publisher
United King Ltd
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (89 minute) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
7) Margarita
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An undocumented lesbian Mexican nanny living in Toronto finds her life in pieces when her employers prepare to fire her and her girlfriend shows an unwillingness to make a commitment.
8) Frontera
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sheriff in Arizona investigates an illegal Mexican immigrant for the murder of the former sheriff's wife.
10) Amreeka
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
13) Under Capricorn
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Australia in l830, an English immigrant stays with his cousin Heneritta and her cruel husband, setting a triangle to explode and reveal a strange crime.
14) Synonyms
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Israeli man moves to France and begins his new life with the help of his French dictionary.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (267 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
17) Small island
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
18) Las Leonas
Publisher
Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the outskirts of Rome, six teams compete in the women's soccer championship, the Las Leonas Trophy. All recent immigrants to Italy the majority from South America the participants work busy lives as caregivers and house cleaners throughout the city. Las Leonas follows the daily struggles, dreams, and frustrations of these women; each with their own story of emigration and family history, but united by a shared passion for soccer. Amidst the pressures...
19) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 527
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. : ports.).
Description
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.
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