Migrant Worker Movies

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Indian migrant worker Najeeb Muhammad goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like...

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the...

After escaping the dust bowl of Texas, a family struggles to survive in a Californian migrant camp. With Thanksgiving fast approaching, they are...

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house...

Set against the margins of Mumbai, the film follows four migrants – a gay husband, his wife working in a bar, a thief, and a pimp – whose...

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Little Intan was used as collateral for a debt by her mother, who was forced to become a migrant worker and leave her behind. But from that moment,...

Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of...

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...

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

Naeem, a Bangladeshi migrant worker employed as a street sweeper, initially feels fearful and keeps his distance from the locals. However, his...

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...

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

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...

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...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly...