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Español
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Extranjeras (Foreign Women) shows the least known and most typical aspects of other cultures through the experience of various immigrant women living in Madrid. We see these women's everyday existence - their family environments, how they live and what they work at. We are given the chance to know what happens to their dreams, and where their affections lie. We also discover the new places they have created in order to meet and exchange.
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English
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Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain acceptance on Earth. The complete, uncut original broadcast...
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English
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Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest to figure out what happened to Chan and their missing cash leads them on a journey that illuminates the pitfalls of Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
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Criterion collection volume 1124
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English
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A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for a missing...
7) I'm new here
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Language
English
Description
Walk in the shoes of three elementary-school-aged immigrants as they learn how to balance becoming American with being Guatemalan, Korean, and Somalian as well!
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English
Description
Television series about four aliens from another planet who pose as humans to study the locals but don't understand the culture at all. In this final season, Tommy goes to college, Sally becomes a weather girl, Harry bothers the Amish, Mary's rich sister proposes, Dick buys a timeshare, evil nemesis Dr. Liam Neesam returns, and The Big Giant Head issues a shocking final order.
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English
Description
Follows four years of the lives of a group of contemporary immigrants as they journey to start new lives in America, including a couple from India in Silicon Valley, a Mexican meatpacker in rural Kansas, two families of Nigerian refugees, two baseball players from the Dominican Republic joining the L.A. Dodgers, and a newly-wed Palestinian woman in Chicago. The detailed portraits of these immigrants not only result in a kaleidoscope of immigrant life...
10) The house of Suh
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English
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One of Chicago's most famous murder cases surrounded sister and brother Catherine and Andrew Suh, first-generation Korean Americans, who conspired against, shot and killed Catherine's former boyfriend. Over a decade later, director Iris Shim revisits the case and opens a Pandora's box of family secrets that reveals the murder to be anything but black and white.
11) Hester Street
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Language
English
Description
An Eastern European Jewish woman comes to turn-of-the-century Lower East Side in New York to join her husband and is reluctant to shed her ethnic heritage and embrace American ways as her husband has.
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