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Directed by Gianni AmelioOrigin ItalieGenres DramaActors Enrico Lo Verso,
Fabrizio GifuniRating67%
Così ridevano (Ainsi, ils riaient) est divisé en six chapitres : Arrivi, Inganni, Soldi, Lettere, Sangue et Famiglie. Six volets correspondant à six années (de 1958 à 1964). Le protagoniste principal est un immigré sicilien venu retrouver son frère, Pietro, à Turin. Un récit d'immigration(s) mais surtout une histoire d'amour entre frères., 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe TornatoreOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Ksenia Rappoport,
Michele Placido,
Claudia Gerini,
Margherita Buy,
Pierfrancesco Favino,
Alessandro HaberRating73%
Irena (Kseniya Rappoport), a Ukrainian prostitute on the run, is determined to find a job in an elegant apartment building in northern Italy, and starts by cleaning the stairs. She does it in order to inch her way into working for a family residing in that building. She befriends Gina (Piera Degli Esposti), the nanny of the family's child, Thea (Clara Dossena), who also lives with them in their apartment. When the nanny is crippled in a fall—tripped by Irena—but presumed to be accidental, Irena is hired to take her place. Through flashbacks, viewers learn that Irena has been physically and emotionally abused, and forced to bear nine children, all taken away at birth to be sold to adoptive families. After stabbing her pimp and leaving him for dead, she sets out to find her youngest child, whom she believes is Thea; hence the plot to work for them. Adoption documents in the apartment convince her that Thea is indeed her daughter. The mother grows suspicious of Irena and fires her, despite the loving relationship that has grown up between Irena and the child. Irena's pimp stalks her and sends out thugs to beat her up as she walks down the street. He rigs her employer's car, leading to a crash in which Thea's mother is killed. The pimp forces Irena to drive him to a location that may or may not contain the money Irena stole from him when she left him for dead. During a struggle, he falls and is killed as his head hits a rock. Thea's father moves to a new apartment and prepares a room for Irena, but as the police suspect foul play around the death of Thea's mother, Irena is taken into custody. She reveals both that the true culprit is the pimp and that she killed him. She is tried, and sent to jail. Thea stops eating until the judge allows Irena to visit her in the hospital and feed her. DNA testing reveals that Thea is not her daughter after all. After she is out of jail, she finds Thea, a young lady now waiting for her., 1h40
Directed by Stijn ConinxOrigin BelgiqueGenres Drama,
Biography,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Luigi Lo Cascio,
Donatella Finocchiaro,
Warre Borgmans,
Jelle Florizoone,
Vincent Grass,
Jappe ClaesRating71%
Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife, son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small timeframe so he can buy a forge for his son Rocco who is now still a 9 year old boy. After a year, Salvatore decides his family should be with him, so they also move to Belgium. They soon discover the life of a gastarbeider is difficult: they have to live in some kind of barracks, they are neglected by the Belgian people and they do not earn much. They are astonished when they hear Salvatore signed a contract of five years and male children of gastarbeiders are ought to work in the mines as soon they leave high school. Rocco meets Helena, the daughter of the local grocer shop. However, the man is a racist and forbids his daughter to play with Italian boys., 1h49
Directed by Coline SerreauOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes L'adolescence,
Films about alcoholism,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Feminist films,
Films about immigration,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
La précarité,
Erotic films,
La sexualité des mineurs,
Films about prostitution,
Rape and revenge films,
Political films,
Erotic thriller films,
Auto-justiceActors Vincent Lindon,
Catherine Frot,
Rachida Brakni,
Line Renaud,
Aurélien Wiik,
Ivan FranekRating69%
Paul and Hélène, a wealthy Parisian couple, are preparing to go out for the evening. While driving, they see three men chasing a prostitute down the street. She begs them to save her by letting her into the car, but Paul locks the doors and drives away as the three men savagely beat her, leaving her unconscious in the street. He refuses to let Hélène phone an ambulance, afraid of being charged with not helping a person in danger (which is a crime in France)., 1h50
Directed by Ken LoachGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
Films about the labor movement,
La précarité,
Political filmsActors Adrien Brody,
Elpidia Carrillo,
Pilar Padilla,
Jack McGee,
Lillian Hurst,
George LopezRating69%
Le cœur gros, Maya a laissé sa mère a Cuernavaca pour émigrer aux États-Unis. Après bien des péripéties, elle arrive à Los Angeles où vit depuis longtemps sa sœur ainée Rosa. Énergique et décidée, Maya décroche un premier job de serveuse dans un bar de nuit puis obtient de Rosa, employée dans une entreprise de nettoyage, qu'elle la présente à son directeur, Perez. Devenue femme de ménage, Maya se retrouve au milieu d'une armée d'employées de toutes les nationalités, qui travaillent dans des conditions inacceptables. Maya refuse de se soumettre., 1h50
Directed by Xavier KollerOrigin SuisseGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Yaman Okay,
Mathias Gnädinger,
Erdal Merdan,
Dietmar SchönherrRating74%
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem., 2h12
Directed by Emir KusturicaGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
CrimeThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
La culture tzigane,
La précaritéActors Davor Dujmović,
Bora Todorović,
Predrag Laković,
Branko ĐurićRating80%
Perhan lives with his devoted grandmother Khaditza, his lame sister Danira and his dissolute uncle Merdzan. He wants to marry a girl named Azra, but her mother won't allow it, as Perhan is the illegitimate son of a Slovenian soldier who had an affair with Perhan's late mother. Ahmed, the "Gypsy sheik," comes to the village with his brothers. Merdzan loses his clothes playing cards with Ahmed's brothers, and comes home desperate for money so that he can repay. It is raining and not finding any money, he accuses the grandmother of hiding the money from him and lifts the frame of the house up (using a rope and a truck), so that it is suspended in mid-air as the rain comes down on Perhan, his grandmother and Danira. Very soon after, Khaditza is summoned to use her powers to save Ahmed's sick son, Roberto, which Khaditza does. For repayment, she proposes a deal with Ahmed - to pay for Danira's leg to be healed at a hospital in Ljubljana. Perhan goes with Danira, promising his grandmother not to leave her, but Ahmed asks where will he stay and convinces him to go to Milan. At first Perhan wants to make money honestly, but after being dragged through the mud, Perhan begins stealing and squirreling money away in a shack., 2h37
Directed by Bille AugustOrigin DanemarkGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about children,
Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Max von Sydow,
Erik Paaske,
Björn Granath,
Astrid Villaume,
Axel Strøbye,
Sofie GråbølRating77%
Based upon the famous 1910 novel of the same name by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø, the film is set in the late 1850s and early 1860s. A boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle who have moved to Denmark from Skåne County, in southern Sweden, to find work after the death of Pelle's mother. They find employment at a large farm, but find themselves treated as the lowest form of life. It is only as Pelle starts to speak Danish that he begins to gain in confidence, but is still discriminated against as a foreigner. But neither boy nor father is willing to give up their dream of finding a better life than that which they left in Sweden.