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Movies and series about working immigrants·11 titles
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Souleymane's Story
2024 · 1h 34m · Drama
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As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.
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The Other Side of Hope
2017 · 1h 41m · Comedy, Drama
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A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
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The Abandoned
2023 · 1h 44m · Crime, Drama, Mystery
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When a mysterious corpse is found in a river, a distressed police officer delves into a string of grisly murders as danger quickly approaches.
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Welcome Back, Farewell
2021 · 1h 45m · Documentary
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Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of the film, which follows the process of affective reconstruction of director Marcos Yoshi's family, crossed by the flow of migrations between Brazil and Japan, known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The story of a family of Japanese descent torn between the need to make a living and the desire to stay together.
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The Taste of Pho
2020 · 1h 24m · Drama
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A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.
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The story of Yesterday
2008 · 1 seasons · Drama
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The series deals with the alienation of the Egyptian family in search of money and its impact on the cohesion of the family and on the future of their children, through Zahra, who travels with her husband to one of the Gulf countries, and when the children reach the university stage, the mother is forced to return them to Egypt.
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Elise, or Real Life
1970 · 1h 44m · Drama
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In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.
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Ali in Wonderland
1980 · 2h 9m · Comedy, Drama
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In the 1980s, barely 18 years after Algeria's independence, Algerian immigration to France massively fueled the construction industry, responding to a demand for hard, undervalued labor. Behind the idea of "selective immigration," these men were recruited primarily for their bras and their knock-kneed hands, shaped by construction sites. Invisible yet essential, they built roads, buildings, and infrastructure, often at the cost of precarious conditions. Ali, an Algerian crane operator in France, philosophically accepts the harassment faced by immigrants like himself on construction sites and in daily life. He hopes to escape his situation with the money he wins in the lottery, and from the top of his crane, he allows himself to dream, observing the world through binoculars. One day, the jackpot falls...
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