Migrant Worker Movies

  • 1994
    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    5.51994HD

    Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

    Money for Bread
  • 2023
    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

    02023HD

    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...

    A Thousand Pines
  • 2021
    Dignity Keeper

    Dignity Keeper

    Dignity Keeper

    02021HD

    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...

    Dignity Keeper
  • 2003
    El Contrato

    El Contrato

    El Contrato

    02003HD

    This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...

    El Contrato
  • 2014
    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

    102014HD

    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés
  • 1970
    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

    01970HD

    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...

    The Blueberry Blues
  • 1962
    Wild Harvest

    Wild Harvest

    Wild Harvest

    3.71962HD

    Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.

    Wild Harvest
  • 2025
    Bitter Sweet Ballad

    Bitter Sweet Ballad

    Bitter Sweet Ballad

    02025HD

    This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the...

    Bitter Sweet Ballad
  • 2024
    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

    02024HD

    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...

    Nurse Unseen
  • 2021
    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    02021HD

    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...

    Migrant Mother
  • 2017
    See You, Lovable Strangers

    See You, Lovable Strangers

    See You, Lovable Strangers

    52017HD

    Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were...

    See You, Lovable Strangers
  • 2020
    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

    02020HD

    This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...

    The Lucky Woman
  • 2017
    The Workers Cup

    The Workers Cup

    The Workers Cup

    42017HD

    Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of...

    The Workers Cup
  • 2016
    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    Farewell Ferris Wheel

    7.32016HD

    Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

    Farewell Ferris Wheel
  • 2020
    In Safe Hands

    In Safe Hands

    In Safe Hands

    02020HD

    ‘In Safe Hands’ follows the journey of two Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officers who worked closely together with other agencies and NGOs,...

    In Safe Hands
  • 2016
    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

    02016HD

    Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...

    Freedom Runners
  • 2017
    Borders

    Borders

    Borders

    02017HD

    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...

    Borders
  • 2016
    The Ambassador's Wife

    The Ambassador's Wife

    The Ambassador's Wife

    02016HD

    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...

    The Ambassador's Wife
  • 1970
    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

    01970HD

    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...

    I Am Golden Karen
  • 2017
    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    62017HD

    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...

    Terrain Vague