Maria Full of Grace (Maria Ilena eres de Gracia) (2004) (Columbia) - R
Desperate for money, a pregnant Colombian teenager travels to New York City and becomes a drug mule in this stunning, award-winning Spanish language film.

In America (2002) (Africa & Ireland) - R
The lives of a young family of illegal Irish immigrants are touched by a reclusive African artist.

The Buena Vista Social Club (2002) - G
This Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of Ry Cooder's goal to bring a group of legendary Cuban musicians together in order to preserve the "lost" music of pre-revolutionary Havana.

Gangs of New York (2002) (Ireland) - R
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winner of a Golden Globe for Best Director, Martin Scorsese's film looks at the violent criminal life in New York's Lower East Side in the last part of the 19th century.

Real Women Have Curves (2002) (Mexico) - PG-13
A lovely, full-figured East LA Latina honor student dreams of college while her mother has more traditional plans.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) (Greece) - PG
In this sleeper hit, an unmarried daughter finds love outside her warm extended Greek-American community.

The Joy Luck Club (1993) (China) - R
The beautiful film adaptation of Amy Tan's novel is a timeless mother-daughter story told with intimacy amidst the sweep of Chinese history.

Mississippi Masala (1992) (India) - R
Mira Nair's engaging and sexy romance finds Sarita Choudhury's Mina, whose Indian family has been violently exiled from their native Uganda, falling in love with Denzel Washington's handsome carpet cleaner Demetrius.

The Mambo Kings (1992) (Cuba) - R
Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was the source for this film staring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas as the Castillo brothers, Cuban musicians who follow their dreams to America in 1952.

The Godfather films (Italy) - R
Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant and brutal epic trilogy captures the life of an Italian immigrant family.

Big Night (1995) (Italy) - R
Set in the fifties, this small, elegant film captures a family's passion for food, music and community.

Avalon (1990) (Russia) - PG
Baltimore is the setting of Barry Levinson's evocative film which traces the lives of a Jewish Russian family over several generations.

Prisoners Among Us (2004) (Italy) - NR
The battle for assimilation Italians faced in America during World War II is the subject of this award-winning documentary.

Hester Street (1975) (Russia) - PG
Joan Micklin Silver's classic fictional story of Jewish immigrants making their way in the New York tenements at the end of the 19th century won an Academy Award nomination for Carol Kane's endearing performance.

Before Night Falls (2000) (Cuba) - R
Javier Bardem was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as gay Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas in this moving and powerful film.

Bread and Roses (2000) (Latin America) - R
Immigrant cleaners in a non-union shop risk possible deportation and certain poverty when they challenge management in Ken Loach's committed and passionate film.

The Lost City (2005) (Cuba) - R
The beauty that was pre-revolutionary Cuba is recreated with love by actor-director Andy Garcia, whose family fled Castro's Cuba.