Migrant Worker Movies
- 1994
Money for Bread
Money for Bread5.51994HD
Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...
- 2023
A Thousand Pines
A Thousand Pines02023HD
In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...
- 2021
Dignity Keeper
Dignity Keeper02021HD
When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...
- 2003
El Contrato
El Contrato02003HD
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...
- 2014
Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés
Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés102014HD
- 1970
The Blueberry Blues
The Blueberry Blues01970HD
Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers from all over scramble before the frost puts an...
- 1962
Wild Harvest
Wild Harvest3.71962HD
Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.
- 2025
Bitter Sweet Ballad
Bitter Sweet Ballad02025HD
This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the...
- 2024
Nurse Unseen
Nurse Unseen02024HD
Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles...
- 2021
Migrant Mother
Migrant Mother02021HD
Migranta tells the stories of Vicky, Betty and Lety, (three mothers who have come to Canada from Mexico as part of the federal government’s...
- 2017
See You, Lovable Strangers
See You, Lovable Strangers52017HD
Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were...
- 2020
The Lucky Woman
The Lucky Woman02020HD
This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...
- 2017
The Workers Cup
The Workers Cup42017HD
Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of...
- 2016
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel7.32016HD
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...
- 2020
In Safe Hands
In Safe Hands02020HD
‘In Safe Hands’ follows the journey of two Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officers who worked closely together with other agencies and NGOs,...
- 2016
Freedom Runners
Freedom Runners02016HD
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...
- 2017
Borders
Borders02017HD
A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before...
- 2016
The Ambassador's Wife
The Ambassador's Wife02016HD
The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is...
- 1970
I Am Golden Karen
I Am Golden Karen01970HD
I AM GOLDEN KAREN is a coming-of-age story of Thaawa, a Karen refugee in search of his identity as a migrant in Thailand. In between puberty and...
- 2017
Terrain Vague
Terrain Vague62017HD
A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...