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Green card (107 min.): Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
Hope springs (92 min.): After he is dumped by his fiancee, Vera, British artist, Colin, flees to the village of Hope in New England to bury himself in his art. Colin ends up sulking about in a small Vermont hotel...
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Kitchen mayhem, irate customers and potential romance unfolds as Robert, an illegal immigrant working at a Chinese restaurant in New York as a waiter, desperately searches for a way to stay in the United States. He reluctantly agrees to meet an American woman, Claire, with the hopes of marrying to obtain a green card. Will Robert obtain his green card before immigration catches up with him?
3) Green card
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Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
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Illegal immigrant and showgirl "Johnny" Jones is due to be deported from the USA back to Nazi occupied Austria. Her only hope is to get married, but her publisher boyfriend Barton Kendrick is already married. When she meets a broke author, Bill Smith, and proposes a marriage of convenience in order to remain in the country, her only goal is instant citizenship, but Bill has more ambitious ideas.
5) Saint Judy
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The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood as she represents and fights for Asefa Ashwari, an Afghan woman who was forced to flee her home country after being persecuted by the Taliban for opening a school for girls. Despite setbacks and losses, their efforts culminate in arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as they seek to save not only Asefa's life, but countless others across the world.
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From acclaimed director David Sutherland comes this unique look at the immigration issue. The film follows the efforts of Elizabeth Perez, a decorated United States Marine veteran, to reunite her family after the deportation of her husband, an undocumented worker from Mexico. Her struggle begins to challenge her assumptions about justice and fairness in the nation for which she fought. A co-presentation with FRONTLINE.
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La naturaleza compleja de las cambiantes reglas y leyes se delinean par ayudar a los inmigrantes a moverse a traves del sistema del Buro de Aduanas y Servicios de Inmigracion, con enfasis en la migracion familiar. Se anima a la gente pensando en hacerle la ciudadania.
The complex nature of the changing rules & regulations are outlined to help immigrants better understand the B.C.I.S. system, with emphasis on family migration. Encourages those thinking...
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Ubicada en 1994, durante el gobierno del ex-gobernador de California Pete Wilson y el lanzamiento de la propuesta anti-inmigrante 187, la cual distranciaba como nunca a mexicanos y americanos. Es la historia de Richard Macedo, un ejecutivo simple y conservador mitad mexicano y mitad americano, tratando de sobrevivir una noche perdido en un ciudad que nunca había visitado y que podría haber sido su propio hogar.
A businessman of mixed heritage finds...
11) Tony Driver
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One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60s, at the age of nine, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American, hot dogs and rockabilly included. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested because of his side hustle: smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border into the USA. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in...
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Chronicles the rise of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez through the professional boxing ranks to number one contender for the World Championship when the U.S. government enacted two tough immigration laws that ordered the immediate deportation of all non-U.S. citizens with a criminal conviction. Despite his clear rehabilitation Jesus, with a prior conviction for armed robbery, was deported to Mexico.
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