Immigrants Immigration

Question:

films about immigrants/immigration?

Answer:

I am doing some research on (recent) films about immigrants and/or immigration. So far I have come up with these films:

Mississippi Masala Joy Luck Club Heaven and Earth Coming to America Green Card

Avalon Far and Away An American Tail Scarface (1983 w/ Al Pacino) West Side Story

The Emigrants and The New Land, a pair of Swedish films by Jan Trolle from the early 70s, with Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman.

Great Choice! Joe Morton was amazing. He is such an underrated actor. Did one hell of a job in "City of Hope" and " Lone Star".

Here a couple more choices:

The Godfather Part II Italian-American Sophie's Choice Queen of Hearts

Very nice thread, in which i hope my contribution will be helpful. To encourage posting on-topic, i am posting my contribution on rec.arts.movies.lists+surveys however, rather than here.

Two films recently shown here (Southern California) on immigration that I found engaging were "Someone Else's America" and "L'america". SEA starred Tom Conti as a Spaniard living in New York and was about how he and his friends and family adjusted to America. Pretty good. L'america isn't actually about America, but rather Albanians trying to emigrate to their promised land - Italy. (the title comes from the America being to Italy early in the century what Italy is to Albania now)

The best film that I have ever seen concerning immigration into the U.S. is "Santa Fe" by the Austrian director Axel Corti; you will no doubt have to search to get your hands on a copy of it (it is part of a magnificent trilogy called "Where To and Back"), but it is well worth the effort. Otherwise, "El Norte" is the best film readily available on video.

On a mainstream note, Avalon from Barry Levinson is a nice immigrant family saga with some very strong performances by an impressive cast (Armin Muller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn)