Elis Island Tales (1980)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 58分
演出 : Robert Bober
シノプシス
"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit center was built, near the New York Statue of Liberty. "Ellis Island Tales, Stories of Wandering and Hope" - the book is composed of three major parts. Georges Perec and Robert Bober visited Ellis Island and with the help of texts and documents, restored what everyday life was about what some called "the island of tears".
妻に先立たれ、息子たちとも疎遠な元軍人のウォルトは、自動車工の仕事を引退して以来単調な生活を送っていた。そんなある日、愛車グラン・トリノが盗まれそうになったことをきっかけに、アジア系移民の少年タオと知り合う。やがて二人の間に芽生えた友情は、それぞれの人生を大きく変えていく。
What would you do if you found 30 million that no one was missing? Mahmut decides to do what he has always dreamt of: to be seen as a Swede. He changes his name to Sebastian, rents a nice house, buys a Volvo and starts wearing socks with patterns. But there's a problem, all of the money is in notes that become invalid in two weeks. His new life is threatened and he needs to find a way to launder 30 million in two weeks.
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
＜モンマルトル編＞駐車できる場所を探し求めてモンマルトルの坂道を走り回った末、ようやく見つけたスペースにマイカーを滑り込ませた男性主人公は、すぐ近くで女性が行き倒れとなっているのと遭遇する。＜セーヌ河岸編＞2人の悪友とともにセーヌ河岸に陣取って、道行く女性たちの品定めをしていたフランソワ。偶然目の前で転んだアラブ系の若い女性を助け起こした彼は、彼女の美しさにたちまち魅せられる。その他、計18話。
スティーヴン・スピルバーグが放つ、元気な末っ子ネズミ・ファイベルの冒険を描いた感動作品。嵐ではぐれたファイベルの奮闘を描く。子供から大人まで楽しめるファンタジー・アニメだ。
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
独身者はお断りの温室つきアパートに住みたい、アメリカ人ブロンディ。アメリカの永住権が欲しいフランス人ジョージ。2人はお互いの利益のために偽装結婚するが……。カルチャー・ギャップがオシャレなロマンティック・コメディ。
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
叔父からコイン・ランドリーの経営を任されたパキスタンの青年、オマール。経営がうまくいかず、幼なじみのジョニーの力を借りておしゃれに改装すると……。人種を超越した男同士の関係を描く。
アイルランドからNYへやってきた4人家族。両親は息子の死に縛られていたが、娘2人の純真な心と、ある芸術家との出会いが一家に思いがけない奇跡をもたらす。『父の祈りを』のジム・シェリダン監督の感動作。
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus Van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
