Movies: Emigration

  • 1976
    The Beach Guard in Winter

    The Beach Guard in Winter (1976)

    The Beach Guard in Winter

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    Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period....

    The Beach Guard in Winter
  • 2012
    Hanaan

    Hanaan (2012)

    Hanaan

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    Stas is a young third generation Koryo-saram, a member of the Korean minority in Central Asia that was deported from the Russian Far East by Stalin. He and his three friends Kasoy, Shin and Said try to escape from the grim life in Tashkent, the Uzbe...

    Hanaan
  • 1979
    The Theme

    The Theme (1979)

    The Theme

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    In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone...

    The Theme
  • 1955
    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go (1955)

    Touch and Go

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    When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning....

    Touch and Go
  • 2012
    A Lady in Paris

    A Lady in Paris (2012)

    A Lady in Paris

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    Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Sté...

    A Lady in Paris
  • 1996
    Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota

    Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota (1996)

    Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota

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    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...

    Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota
  • 1995
    Nueba Yol

    Nueba Yol (1995)

    Nueba Yol

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    Balbuena is a genial illegal immigrant who makes his way to New York City to take a bite out of the Big Apple. But his hopes of finding a better life soon begin to fade as Balbuena encounters one obstacle after another in the hardscrabble, uncaring m...

    Nueba Yol
  • 2017
    Nowhere

    Nowhere (2017)

    Nowhere

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    A film about people who are leaving Serbia for economic reasons....

    Nowhere
  • 2009
    Playground

    Playground (2009)

    Playground

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    German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working....

    Playground
  • 2013
    The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich

    The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich (2013)

    The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich

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    At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an ...

    The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
  • 2006
    It's Winter

    It's Winter (2006)

    It's Winter

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    Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long...

    It's Winter
  • 1952
    Frosina

    Frosina (1952)

    Frosina

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    The first Macedonian Movie from 1952- Frosina is one of the many Macedonian wives whose husbands are economic emigrants abroad. Marriage does not bring them a family, only the burden of life itself. After her husband's short visits, she gives birth t...

    Frosina
  • 1971
    The Father

    The Father (1971)

    The Father

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    "Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, ...

    The Father
  • 2008
    Dao

    Dao (2008)

    Dao

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    Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man she barely knows in a strange country with foreign tastes, scents and habits makes Dao feel rootless...

    Dao
  • 2019
    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World (2019)

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

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    The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germ...

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World
  • 2016
    The Journey

    The Journey (2016)

    The Journey

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    Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis. Matthew Cassel, an independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, follows the seven-mo...

    The Journey
  • 2022
    Island of Freedom

    Island of Freedom (2022)

    Island of Freedom

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    A man from communist Czechoslovakia unexpectedly meets his childhood love on a flight to Cuba. When they stop over in Canada, he has a plan… but can he trust her?...

    Island of Freedom
  • 2018
    The Man with the Lantern

    The Man with the Lantern (2018)

    The Man with the Lantern

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    To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, filmmaker Francesca Lixi embarks on a journey to those places through archival footage....

    The Man with the Lantern
  • 1910
    The Lad from Old Ireland

    The Lad from Old Ireland (1910)

    The Lad from Old Ireland

    5.11910HD

    A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home....

    The Lad from Old Ireland
  • 2011
    Monaco, Italia. Storie di arrivi in Germania

    Monaco, Italia. Storie di arrivi in Germania (2011)

    Monaco, Italia. Storie di arrivi in Germania

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    Monaco, Italia. Storie di arrivi in Germania