A Minute for Murder (1962)

Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.

Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.

19世紀のデンマークの小島を舞台に、スウェーデンからの移民親子の可酷な体験と少年の成長を描く。製作はペア・ホルスト、マーティン・アナセン・ネクセの原作『勝利者ペレ』の〈幼年時代〉を基に、監督・脚本は本作品が日本公開第一作になるビレ・アウグスト、撮影は「マイライフ・アズ・ア・ドッグ」のヨルゲン・ペルソン、音楽はステファン・ニルソンが担当。出演はマックス・フォン・シドー、ペレ・ヴェネゴーほか。88年カンヌ映画祭グランプリ、89年アカデミー賞外国語映画賞受賞作。

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

ソ連からアメリカへ亡命した著名なバレエ・ダンサーのニコライ。ある日、搭乗していた旅客機がシベリアに緊急着陸し、KGBに軟禁されてしまい……。ミハイル・バリシニコフとグレゴリー・ハインズのダンス・シーンも見もの。

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

1938年4月、少女レギーナと母イエッテルはナチスの迫害を逃れるため、故郷のドイツを後にし、先にケニアに渡っていた父ヴァルターのいるロンガイの農場へとやってきた。ドイツでは弁護士をしていたヴァルターもここでは農場で働く一介の労働者。予想を超える過酷な生活に、お嬢様育ちのイエッテルは耐えられず弱音を吐いてばかり。一方ヴァルターは、欧州情勢の悪化に、残してきた父や妹の安否が不安でならない。そんな2人を尻目に、レギーナは料理人のオウアやケニアの子どもたちとすぐに仲良くなり、アフリカの大地でたくましく成長していく…。

In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life..

Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...

When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.

In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.

A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.

Sweden, 1849. A poverty-stricken family decides to move to America in the hope of finding a better and more prosperous life. Although they know the journey will be dangerous and the pressure of facing a new life in a strange and wild land is great, they are determined to succeed.

The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.