Tag Archives: immigrant

Little Fish

IMDB Rating: 6.60
1760 votes

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In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.
Actors
Tracy HeartCate Blanchett
BradSam Neill
Lionel DawsonHugo Weaving
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lord of War

IMDB Rating: 7.70
33996 votes

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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Actors
Yuri OrlovNicolas Cage
Ava FontaineBridget Moynahan
Vitaly OrlovJared Leto
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

I Heart Huckabees

IMDB Rating: 6.90
20212 votes

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Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
Actors
Albert MarkovskiJason Schwartzman
Caterine VaubanIsabelle Huppert
BernardDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

House of Sand and Fog

IMDB Rating: 7.70
15956 votes

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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house's former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.
Actors
KathyJennifer Connelly
BehraniBen Kingsley
LesterRon Eldard
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bend It Like Beckham

IMDB Rating: 7.10
23420 votes

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A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film follows two 18 year olds with their hearts set on a future in professional soccer. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to cook the perfect chapatti.
Actors
Jesminder 'Jess' BhamraParminder Nagra
Juliette 'Jules' PaxtonKeira Knightley
JoeJonathan Rhys-Meyers
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Sport | Comments (0)

Gangs of New York

IMDB Rating: 7.30
59936 votes

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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
Actors
Amsterdam VallonLeonardo DiCaprio
William 'Bill/The Butcher' CuttingDaniel Day-Lewis
Jenny EverdeaneCameron Diaz
Also posted in 2002, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (12)

The Weight of Water

IMDB Rating: 6.00
2851 votes

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A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.
Actors
Louis WagnerCiarán Hinds
Mr. PlaistedRichard Donat
Maren HontvedtSarah Polley
Also posted in 2000, Thriller | Comments (0)

Bread and Roses

IMDB Rating: 7.10
1380 votes

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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Actors
MayaPilar Padilla
Sam ShapiroAdrien Brody
RosaElpidia Carrillo
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Scarface

IMDB Rating: 8.00
38403 votes

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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...
Actors
Tony MontanaAl Pacino
Manny RiberaSteven Bauer
ElviraMichelle Pfeiffer
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Border

IMDB Rating: 6.20
1092 votes

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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Actors
Charlie SmithJack Nicholson
CatHarvey Keitel
MarcyValerie Perrine
Also posted in 1982, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)