Drama
A Mexican social activist fearing for his life seeks asylum in the U.S. He finds illegal work on a Vermont dairy farm alongside other undocumented workers. Here he learns that their ambiguous status leaves them vulnerable to the injustice, abuse and cruelty they were escaping from.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Biutiful
Amaraica
Eternity and a Day
Dirt
The Serbian Girl
El Norte
The Order of Things
Nanny
Princesses
The Border
Kabukicho Love Hotel
La Promesse
Els dies que no oblidarem
The Home Song Stories
Border Incident
Tenemos una Voz!
London Babulu
Blissfully Yours
Frozen River
Unimundo 45
SIMILAR MOVIES
Biutiful
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2010
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.Amaraica
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2020
An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US government's 'Zero Tolerance' child separation policy at the US / Mexico border.Eternity and a Day
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1998
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.Dirt
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2003
Dolores Del Rosario is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who works as a maid for wealthy New Yorkers. Treated patronizingly whenever she isn't simply ignored, she witnesses all her privileged employers' quirks and indiscretions, including affairs and other secrets. When she loses her highest-paying job because the family's political ambitions preclude employing an illegal immigrant, Dolores' neighbors, led by her best friend, Mona, come to her aid. (Cinetopia Film Festival)The Serbian Girl
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1991
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.El Norte
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1983
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 Order of Things
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2017
An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.Nanny
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 2022
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.Princesses
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.The Border
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 1982
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.Kabukicho Love Hotel
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2014
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.La Promesse
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1996
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.Els dies que no oblidarem
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2020
The Home Song Stories
IMDB 6 | Feb , 2007
A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.Border Incident
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1949
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.Tenemos una Voz!
IMDB 10 | Feb , 2025
Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these news.London Babulu
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2017
While there is nothing wrong in aspiring for a better life abroad, the means are as equally important as the goal. Making use of forged certificates and lying to the authorities in the desperation for getting a visa will eventually result in nothing but trouble.Blissfully Yours
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2002
Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant.Frozen River
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2008
After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.Unimundo 45
IMDB 2 | Oct , 2018
When an anti-immigrant candidate wins the presidency, a jaded Latina news producer sheds her cynicism and reconnects with her suppressed activist side on live TV.