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, 1h30Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Harvey Keitel, Zina Bethune, Harry Northup, Anne Collette, Catherine Scorsese, Martin Scorsese
J.R. (Harvey Keitel) is a typical Catholic Italian-American young man on the streets of New York City. Even as an adult, he stays close to home with a core group of friends with whom he drinks and carouses around. He gets involved with a local girl (Zina Bethune) he meets on the Staten Island Ferry, and decides he wants to get married and settle down. As their relationship deepens, he declines her offer to have sex because he thinks she is a virgin and he wants to wait rather than "spoil" her.
Yodok Stories (2008)
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Yoole, The Sacrifice (2010)
, 1h15Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
The albatross smiled from the sky/ These were the last souls sacrificed to the sea / Years later, their bodies reached the shore. A young illegal immigrant writes to his mother. He tells her of the torments he and his friends endured during weeks after they attacked the great blue. They departed from Senegal towards Spain in an open boat with 54 souls aboard, but the boat started to drift towards the American continent. It reached Barbados with only eleven passengers, all dead.
The Zombie Farm (2009)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about domestic violence, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Khotan Fernández Tapajos
Ana Maria, a battered wife, seeks help from a local spiritualist, Roque. Impressed with Roque's community service and advocacy for women, a filmmaker, Pilar Franco, offers to make a documentary about him. Roque, however, is a fake and can offer Ana Maria little help beyond advice to leave her abusive relationship; Pilar is disgusted and denounces him as a con man. In desperation, Ana Maria turns to Luna, a voodoo priestess, who warns her that her husband, Antonio, will be changed by the dark magic. To Ana Maria's surprise, Antonio is transformed into a mindless slave. Unsure what to do, Ana Maria returns to Roque and seeks his help once again. Roque and Pilar team up to help Ana Maria discover what happened to Antonio. Together, they learn that Luna is creating slave labor out of the immigrant community now that her supply of illegal immigrants has dried up. These zombies are put to work on Luna's farm and mindlessly follow her orders, including the murder of her enemies. A mix of Haitian voodoo and undead ghoul, the zombies are nearly impossible to destroy. Eventually, a botched spell destroys the zombies and Luna is killed. Roque and Pilar, who have come to respect each other, decide to work together to help the community.
The Loser Takes All (2002)
, 2hGenres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Road movies
Actors Maro Mavri
The story revolves around five characters: a fortysomething, the "Man," who has memories from the "years of cholera;" an alcoholic woman, Odetti, who goes by the pseudonym of "Madame Raspberry;" a Senegalese striper named Mandali; the "Little Guy," a guitar player and music lover; and Elsa, the protagonist's ex-girlfriend who is now a barwoman. The characters meet in order to fulfill their longstanding dream: leaving the city for an exotic island on a journey of no return. Thus they get involved with the dark world of the night.
The Dream (1987)
, 45minutesDirected by Mohamed Malas
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
The film was composed of several interviews with different Palestinian refugees including children, women, old people, and militants from the refugee camps in Lebanon. In the interviews Malas questions his subjects about their dreams at night. Through their answers, the film attempts to reveal the underlying subconsciousness of the Palestinian refugee. The dreams always converge on Palestine; a woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai of bombardment and martyrdom; and one man tells of a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs. According to Rebecca Porteous, the film constructs "the psychology of dispossession; the daily reality behind those slogans of nationhood, freedom, land and resistance, for people who have lost all of these things, except their recourse to the last.
Bandhobi (2009)
, 1h47Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Baek Jin-hee, Lee Il-hwa, Park Hyuk-kwon, Jeong Byeong-gil
Karim (Mahbub Alam) is a 27-year-old Bangladeshi working in an industrial laundry. An intellectual whose academic degree was not recognized in Korea, Karim's work permit is about to expire and he's still owed a year's pay by a previous employer, Shin (Jung Dong-gyu), who's not taking his calls; meanwhile, his wife back home is giving him a hard time about money problems.