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  • Stranger Than Paradise

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    A New Yorker’s life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.

  • Heaven’s Gate

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    Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and…

  • El Norte

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    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

  • The Lost Generation

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    The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.

  • An Autumn’s Tale

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    Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC’s Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend’s cheating, her cousin comforts her.

  • Mississippi Masala

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    Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s…

  • I Love Vienna

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    I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

  • Romper Stomper

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    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run…

  • Terror 2000

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    Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his…

  • Léon: The Professional

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    Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective “cleaner”. But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda’s thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon’s footsteps.

  • Big Night

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    Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

  • The Best Man’s Wedding

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    Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Meanwhile, Roro’s best friend, Måns, has serious problems getting an erection.

  • Code Unknown

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    A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film’s five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges’ brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges’ apartment. These characters’ lives interconnect with…

  • Dancer in the Dark

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    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life’s troubles – even…

  • Telling Lies in America

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    A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment world.

  • The Passion of Ayn Rand

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    Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

  • Gangs of New York

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    In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father’s killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting’s inner circle. Vallon’s journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to…

  • House of Sand and Fog

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    Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with…

  • A Day Without a Mexican

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    When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.

  • Spanglish

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    Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can’t handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and…

  • Under Surveillance

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    After 10 years, Justin Besler moves back to his father’s house. But it’s not as he remembered. His father’s house has been renovated to support four apartments with seven residents. And among them… resides a killer. When the victim of a ritualistic cult turns up on his property, Justin secretly places the tenants under video…