Migrant Worker Movies

  • 1980
    Angel City

    Angel City

    Angel City

    5.751980HD

    Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

    Angel City
  • 2024
    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    Beyond Ratings

    02024HD

    Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...

    Beyond Ratings
  • 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
  • 1960
    Harvest of Shame

    Harvest of Shame

    Harvest of Shame

    6.61960HD

    In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range...

    Harvest of Shame
  • 2000
    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    The Charcoal People

    7.72000HD

    This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

    The Charcoal People
  • 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
  • 2018
    Ali

    Ali

    Ali

    02018HD

    A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...

    Ali
  • 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
  • 2013
    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    Sex: My British Job

    5.42013HD

    Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...

    Sex: My British Job
  • 2018
    YAYA

    YAYA

    YAYA

    72018HD

    YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her...

    YAYA
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    02014HD

    Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down...

    Once Upon a Time
  • 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
  • 2001
    In Foreign Soil

    In Foreign Soil

    In Foreign Soil

    02001HD

    In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...

    In Foreign Soil
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1975
    The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors

    61975HD

    “Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins;...

    The Ambassadors
  • 2003
    La Vie sans Brahim

    La Vie sans Brahim

    La Vie sans Brahim

    102003HD

    La Vie sans Brahim