Dans un mystérieux endroit niché au cœur des montagnes de Colombie, la fantastique famille Madrigal habite une maison enchantée dans une cité pleine de vie, un endroit merveilleux appelé Encanto. L’Encanto a doté chacun des enfants de la famille d’une faculté magique allant d’une force surhumaine au pouvoir de guérison. Seule Mirabel n’a reçu aucun don particulier. Mais lorsque la magie de l’Encanto se trouve menacée, la seule enfant ordinaire de cette famille extraordinaire va peut-être se révéler leur unique espoir…
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
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.
The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.
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.
Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myoung. Yet instead of feeling content, she constantly faces uncertainty, confusion and anxiety. While struggling with personal relationships and life's woes, Kye-na finally embarks for New Zealand despite everyone’s dissuasion on leaving her home behind.
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Georges, un Français, travaille dans un bistrot new-yorkais. En situation illégale, il rêve d'obtenir un permis de travail. Brontë, une Américaine passionnée d'horticulture et de botanique, est employée comme paysagiste dans les quartiers pauvres de la ville. Son rêve : un appartement avec jardin. Un ami commun, Anton, les convainc tous deux de contracter un mariage blanc : Georges obtiendrait ainsi la fameuse « green card » et Brontë, l'appartement qu'elle convoite et que seul un couple marié peut louer. Mais les autorités, méfiantes, les obligent à vivre ensemble 48 heures pour s'assurer qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un mariage factice…
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.
Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America—to find the child that was taken from her. In the end, Sister Tse must draw on the strength she found in transforming her victimhood into power.
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
En Russie, en 1885, les souris sont de plus en plus menacées par les chats. Fievel et sa famille décident alors d'émigrer aux États-Unis où on dit que les rues sont pavées de fromage et qu'il n'y a aucun chat. Après de multiples aventures, Fievel arrive dans la grande métropole et découvre que la vérité est toute autre.
A Mexican farmhand migrates to America to better support his family, but his dream crashes to the ground when his wife and daughter can't meet him across the border.
An unsuspecting homeless man comes across a dead body and a valuable necklace. When he tries to do the right thing, he finds himself trapped in an incredibly dangerous situation.
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
An immigrant from Hong Kong now lives in Los Angeles. He deals with his homesickness and sense of loss after encountering a strange old man.
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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!