The Terminal

2004-06-17

new york city, airport, marriage proposal, translation, craftsman, stewardess, illegal immigration, language barrier, jfk international airport, immigration law, fast food restaurant, jazz singer or musician, saxophonist, autograph, passport, eastern europe, friendship

Terminal 2

A Lady Without Passport

1950-08-03

immigration, illegal immigration, immigration law, noir

Fast Food Nation

2006-05-16

texas, illegal immigration, illegal employment, fast food restaurant, butcher, hamburger, junk food

87546

Big Night

1996-09-20

new jersey, jazz, restaurant, immigrant, food, car salesman, italian restaurant, feast, 1950s

Tripoli Cancelled

2017-04-08

New York, New York

1977-06-21

new york city, jazz, saxophonist, falling in love

Journey to Portugal

2011-06-16

Lost in Transit

1993-09-01

The Expanding Airport

1958-01-01

Restless City

2012-04-27

new york city, hustler, immigrant, independent film, aspiring musician

The Bus

1975-01-01

The Visitor

2007-09-07

michigan, flat, immigration, illegal immigration, drum, class, college professor

The Out-of-Towners

1970-05-28

new york city, airport, travel

The Avocado

2019-11-15

illegal immigration, immigrant, police, romance, food, dating

The Rat Race

1960-07-10

roommate, jazz singer or musician

Here and Now

2018-11-09

new york city, singer, diagnosis

They Come to America

2012-03-31

immigration, illegal immigration

The Trip to Greece

2020-03-03

greece, europe, trip, restaurant, friendship, food

Lush Life

1993-10-01

jazz singer or musician, musician, bebop

An Autumn's Tale

1987-07-16

new york city, immigration, immigrant, woman director, college student

Your Happiness Depends on Me

2006-06-01

love triangle, cleaning lady, fictitious marriage, illegal immigration, idealism, in flagranti, hospital, doctor, relationship

Chuchotage

2018-04-24

interpreter, language barrier, conference, translator, short

Everything is Wonderful

2019-05-23

new york city, friendship, cheating husband, brooklyn, new york city

Small Fry

2011-11-23

fast food restaurant, toy, fast food, short

Lady Liberty

1971-01-01

MOANIN'

jazz, jazz singer or musician, moanin, charles mingus

We Were Not Born Refugees

2020-07-27

barcelona, spain, immigration law, immigrant life, immigrants integration

An American Pickle

2020-08-07

immigrant, time travel, brooklyn, new york city, duringcreditsstinger, yiddish language

Never Sleeps

2007-08-04

Nectar

2020-08-21

Coming to America

1988-06-29

new york city, fast food restaurant, prince, heir to the throne, fish out of water, fake identity, duringcreditsstinger, searching for love

Everyone Says I Love You

1996-12-06

new york city, adultery, robbery, infidelity, marriage proposal, new love, restaurant, lover, musical, grandfather, senility, tourist, dysfunctional family, family relationships, mistaken identity, redemption, unfaithfulness, divorce, christmas

Sweet and Lowdown

1999-12-03

new york city, guitar, jazz, night life, egocentrism, jazz singer or musician, independent film, pretty woman

Petty Crimes

2002-03-27

Mickey Blue Eyes

1999-08-16

new york city, marriage proposal, fbi, mafia boss, mafia

Nomads

2010-10-18

suicide, new york city, undocumented immigrant

A Plane from Budapest

1961-01-01

The Trip to Spain

2017-08-31

spain, europe, restaurant, friendship, cafeteria, food critic, actor, sight

The Immigrant

1917-06-17

new york city, card game, immigrant, slapstick, poverty, silent film, short

Two Lost in a Dirty Night

2002-08-13

new york city, brazilian, immigration, friendship, love, based on play or musical

Turbulence

2016-12-02

stewardess, career, airplane, relationship problems, flight, lgbt, new job, flight attendant, young couple, turbulence, gay couple, airplane flight, gay

The Clock

1945-05-25

new york city, love, soldier, church

The Garden Left Behind

2019-03-09

new york city, mexico, immigrant, relationship, young, grandmother, trans woman, gender transition

Layla Live or Die

2008-07-04

airport, beach, exotic dancer, plane, obscene finger gesture

Love with the Proper Stranger

1963-12-25

new york city, italian american, jazz singer or musician, unwanted pregnancy, abortion

When Harry Met Sally...

1989-01-12

new york city, husband wife relationship, restaurant, platonic love, orgasm, friendship, diner, central park, central park, new york city

The Immigrant

2013-07-03

new york city, sibling relationship, corruption, magic, immigrant, nightmare, ship, quarantine, love, murder, money, escape, doctor, prostitution, illness

Singular

2019-03-02

jazz, jazz singer or musician

Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark

2014-05-13

jazz singer or musician, biography, black singer, african american music, african american man

Soul Plane

2004-05-28

black people, hip-hop, stewardess, nightclub, airplane, chaos, champagne, lawsuit, crude humor, airport security, flight attendant, african american comedy

Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm

2004-04-01

husband wife relationship, jazz, jazz singer or musician, musical, jazz club, marriage, paperboy

Borderless

2019-01-01

refugee, europe, immigration, illegal immigration, border, immigrant, immigration law, investigation, human trafficking, investigative journalism, asylum seekers, border control, ngo, european refugee crisis

New World

2015-09-17

immigration

Orly

2010-06-01

airport, woman director

Sweet Smell of Success

1957-07-04

new york city, sibling relationship, newspaper, jazz singer or musician, media tycoon, noir, gossip columnist

I Love Your Guts

2020-09-25

fast food restaurant

Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport

2000-01-01

Unfinished Sky

2007-08-04

immigrant, illegal

Hold On

2008-05-16

new york city, short

New Orleans

1947-04-18

jazz singer or musician

My American Dream

2019-11-02

new york city, immigration, drug dealer, american dream, immigrant, racism, family conflict, gang violence, chinese immigrant, american dream stories

Crooklyn

1994-05-13

black people, 1970s, jazz singer or musician, dysfunctional family, teacher, urban, parenthood, brooklyn, new york city, semi autobiographical, street kid

Dear Galileo

2009-07-23

europe, illegal immigration, friendship, love, romance, travel, eiffel tower paris

Young Man with a Horn

1950-03-01

based on novel or book, jazz, jazz singer or musician, musician, musical, jazz club, trumpet

The Specter of Terror

1973-06-09

vietnam veteran, stewardess, psychopath, serial killer, whodunit, strangler, flight attendant

Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye

2005-04-15

Weird Nightmare

jazz, jazz singer or musician, cello, musician, making of, bass

Nueba Yol

1995-08-16

new york city, emigration, dominican republic

Tricicle: Exit

1985-01-01

airport, social satire, filmed theater

Four Passports

2016-08-18

immigration

Dirt

2004-01-23

Food Place

2019-08-16

The Castle

1997-04-10

underdog, airport, court case, australian, family history, australia, court, cult comedy, kickboxing, cult film, david and goliath

View from the Top

2003-03-21

stewardess, airplane, casting, boss, flight attendant, small town girl