migrant worker movies

A Million Miles Away (2023)
7.809 / 10

Drama, History

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

God's Own Country (2017)
7.783 / 10

Romance, Drama

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Ilo Ilo (2013)
7.063 / 10

Drama

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

The Goat Life (2024)
7 / 10

Drama, Adventure

The real-life incident of an Indian migrant worker, Najeeb Muhammad, who goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds...

Of Mice and Men (1939)
7.289 / 10

Drama

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Youth (Spring) (2023)
7 / 10

Documentary

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...

Angel City (1980)
6 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

El Contrato (2003)
0 / 10

Documentary

This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...

Terrain Vague (2017)
6 / 10

Drama, Comedy

A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...

Dignity Keeper (2021)
0 / 10

Drama

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...

Number Eighty (2016)
0 / 10

Drama

Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone...

Sex: My British Job (2013)
5.4 / 10

Documentary

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...

Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés (2014)
10 / 10

Documentary

The Charcoal People (2000)
7.4 / 10

Documentary

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

Brothers of the Night (2016)
5.4 / 10

Documentary, Drama

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell...

Harvest of Shame (1960)
6.6 / 10

Documentary

In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range...

A Thousand Pines (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

Wild Harvest (1962)
3.7 / 10

Drama, Romance

Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.

The Blueberry Blues (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers from all over scramble before the frost puts an...

The Lucky Woman (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...