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1) The basket
Language
English
Description
A picturesque story of the landscapes through the territory of the human heart. A Pacific Northwest logging community in 1918 struggles to come to terms with the pain and prejudice of wartime America. Weaving an unlikely thread of forbidden love, racial tension, German opera lessons and a new game called basketball.
2) Ask the dust
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.
4) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
5) Sin nombre
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A teenage Honduran girl forms an unlikely friendship with a Mexican gang member who is helping to smuggle her family into the United States.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014, c1991.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the wide-eyed adventures of a courageous little mouse names Fievel.
When Fievel Mouskewitz is lured out west by the entrepreneur Cat R. Waul, he discovers that the true plan is to turn the settlers into mouse burgers. Enlisting the aid of his cat friend Tiger, the two team up with the lawdog Wylie Burp to foil this "dastardly plot".
9) 7 soles
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
El Negro gets hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. When he claims this will be his last trip because he wants out of the business, his superiors become suspicious and send a younger smuggler to keep an eye on him. The two fight during the troubled crossing, and eventually lose part of their human cargo. El Negro now finds himself on the run from his former associates and the law.
10) Immigrants
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Contains adult situations.
They came to the U.S. to chase the American Dream. Roommates Vladislav and Joska get into all kinds of troubles, wild adventures and situation, all while adapting to life in America. With neighbors Flaco, a friend from Mexico; Mr. Chea, a Chinese restaurant owner; Nazim, a former Pakistani scientist turned tour bus driver; and Mr. Splits, an old black pimp, Vladislav and Joska's antics are poignant for anyone who's ever...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 29
Publisher
GPN
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister bravely travel alone across the ocean to the United States, from the book by Riki Levinson.
LeVar explores the plight of the many courageous immigrants who came to America filled with hopes and dreams.
12) Crossing over
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An immigration officer must protect the U.S. border in Los Angeles from those trying to pursue the American Dream, as those around him try to break the rules by fraud, blackmail, and work-site enforcement.
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over,...
14) Norteado
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Andres sets out on a journey to cross the US border in search of his family. After various failed attempts he settles down in Tijuana. There he meets two women who quickly seduce him and at the same time help him achieve his dream. Now he must face uncertainty and danger on a goal he might never be able to attain.
"Nacido en Oaxaca, Mexico, Andres emprende un viaje sin tetorno a la frontera buscando entrar a Estados Unidos...
15) In America
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel, find New York's Hell's Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love again.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosso and his son Paul have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub/brothel, but they both dream about getting out of the business. A suitcase left at their club with the means to bring the dreams alive may change their lives and fates.
19) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
An American tail: Fievel goes west: A family of Emigre mice decide to move out to the west, unaware that they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth talking cat.
An American tail: the treasure of Manhattan Island: In the historic melting pot of 19th century New York...