A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America.
A silent amateur comedy about a Lebanese immigrant who returns home after trying his luck in the United States of America.
An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.
In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated in Paris. He first stops in Marseille, where he meets Tunisians very different from those familiar to him; enigmatic French people; and a strange atmosphere that makes him doubt his brother’s innocence, his own innocence and his own mental integrity.
Uma família de camponeses suecos, devastada pela pobreza, privação e miséria na Suécia de meados do século XIX, parte numa perigosa viagem para a América na esperança de uma vida melhor.
Bruno Stroszek é libertado da prisão e advertido para parar de beber. Ele tem poucas competências e menos expectativas: com um xilofone e um acordeão, ganha a vida como músico de rua. Faz amizade com Eva, uma prostituta azarada e juntam-se ao seu vizinho, Scheitz, um idoso excêntrico, quando ele abandona a Alemanha para ir viver em Wisconsin.
Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) é um bailarino da União Soviética exilado nos Estados Unidos que é aprisionado pela KGB quando seu avião sofre uma pane e pousa em território soviético. Lá tem contato com um bailarino americano, que desertou do exército na época da Guerra do Vietnã, foi morar em Moscou e está casado com uma russa.
Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) é um inventor cheio de idéias que, cansado da mediocridade à sua volta, resolve sair dos Estados Unidos. Assim pega a mulher, os quatro filhos e se manda para o interior de um país da América Central. Allie sonha em ter uma nova vida, mas nem tudo acontece como ele deseja. Conflitos com sua família, com um pastor local e com a natureza são obstáculos que o impedem de realizar seu sonho.
No final do século XIX, dois emigrantes suecos, Lasse Karlsson e o seu filho Pelle, chegam à ilha dinamarquesa de Bornholm na esperança de encontrar trabalho numa quinta e poupar dinheiro suficiente para viajar para os Estados Unidos da América.
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Documents the highlights of a concert version of the musical written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, performed in Minnesota. Based on a series of novels detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century, we also meet some of the descendants to the emigrants.
Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security reasons, five doubles will be found and trained for Lenin. All of them are finally sent to Russia to instigate the revolution. How will the real Lenin put up with all this?
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
Máfia é mais uma comédia do diretor Jim Abrahams. Aqui os alvos de paródias são os filmes sobre mafiosos.
Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.
A returnee from Australia causes uproar in his native village when he announces he's looking for bride.
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.