A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer), un seductor europeo que quiere residir en los Estados Unidos, decide casarse con una romántica e ingenua maestra norteamericana (Olivia de havilland) para conseguir el permiso de residencia.

This short film traces the journey of the first Ukrainian settlers in Canada. Seeking freedom and opportunity, they came here and became instrumental in helping to open the Canadian West. Though they had little in the way of money or machinery, they had courage and faith in the future and were willing to put in the hard work. Every member of the family helped in the struggle, and in time, their efforts paid off.

La acción se inicia en 1847 con la llegada de los primeros colonos alemanes al sur de Chile. Don Vicente Perez Rosales se encarga de dar la bienvenida a los inmigrantes que arriban en barco a los remotos parajes de Villarica. Luego de los discursos de rigor en que se promete lealtad a la nueva patria, los colonos comienzan a trabajar la tierra. Pasan los años. El frustrado Daniel, su noble hermano Simón y la dulce Dora son tres de esos pioneros que la historia retoman en su juventud, para tratar un triángulo de amor y deseo

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.

A documentary picture about Finnish Americans. A husband, wife, and a daughter are travelling in the "Wonderland of the West" meeting many Finnish immigrants.

Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), una organización mafiosa dirigida por un tal Palinov se dedica al tráfico ilegal de personas que desean entrar en los Estados Unidos. Karczag Peter, un agente de los servicios de inmigración americanos, es enviado a La Habana, donde debe hacerse pasar por húngaro y encontrar a Palinov. Durante su peligrosa investigación, se enamora de la refugiada Marianne Lorress.

Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el soldado Philip (John Ericson) regresa a Nueva York acompañado de Teresa (Pier Angeli), una joven italiana a la que conoció durante la guerra. Pero, cuando se disponen a empezar una nueva vida juntos, tienen que enfrentarse a los prejuicios y recelos de la sociedad norteamericana y, entonces, Philip se verá dominado por un sentimiento de culpa.

En los años 40, finalizado el conflicto de la Guerra Civil Española, una familia abandona el campo y emigra a Madrid con la esperanza de mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Sin embargo, la vida en la ciudad es cruel y está llena de desengaños y penalidades. Manuel, el padre, encuentra trabajo en una fundición, pero no puede soportar el ritmo de trabajo. Pepe, el hijo mayor, se dedica a turbios asuntos relacionados con el estraperlo. Manolo, el hijo menor, encuentra trabajo como chico de los recados, y Tonia, la hermana, empieza a trabajar como asistenta.

Peter, un desplazado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, salta de un buque en el puerto de Nueva York cuando es deportado. Su intención es encontrar a un ex soldado llamado Tom a quien ayudó durante la guerra y poder demostrar su entrada legal en los Estados Unidos.

This drama portrays an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair that characterize their life in a strange land. An Italian wife joins her husband in a large Canadian city. After two years in Canada the husband feels his dream of a better life is close to realization, but his wife feels that differences of language and custom are insurmountable. How such feelings are dispelled by simple gestures of friendship from Canadian-born neighbours gives a heartening conclusion to the film.

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow them on a snowy journey by train to Montreal.

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".

The young Amar, father of two children, lives on expedients and looks in vain for a job in Algiers. He decides to emigrate to France, and finds a job there, but quickly loses it after a roundup and custody for several days. Led by two shady Europeans he met in a café, he embarks with other unemployed people for well-paid work on the plantations of Madagascar. The boat that takes them finally docks in Algiers! This film had disappeared for almost fifty years. Ahmed Bedjaoui mourned it until the Berlin Cinematheque found the only copy of this work in its archives, restored it, subtitled it and screened it at the opening of its festival in 2015. The film was thrilled the large audience present, made up of professionals and knowledgeable film buffs. Due to the modesty of its self-produced means, but also by aesthetic choice, the film oscillates between neo-realist cinema and cinema vérité.

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.

In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a public writer for illiterate compatriots whose lives he knows in detail. As he betrays none of their secrets, he enjoys great prestige in the bistros where he works. The three of them lead a casual life, raising money by illicit means. It's only when Poulou and Amar leave that Jibé understands his isolation and marginalization. The images as well as the sounds help to reinforce the feeling that Paris is a city where he is both at home and a terrible stranger.