Movies and TvShows featuring "ethnic-minority" theme.
The film follows the story of the legendary rock band Queen and their lead singer Freddie Mercury. It covers their rise to fame, the challenges they face, and their historic performance at Live Aid in 1985. Along the way, the movie explores Freddie Mercury's personal life, his relationship with Mary Austin, his struggles with identity and sexuality, and his battle with AIDS. It showcases the band's triumphs, including the creation of iconic songs like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'We Will Rock You', as well as the lasting impact they had on the music industry.
Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, lives one step away from asylum on the path to U.S. citizenship. Struggling to balance two cultures and three languages, Mo faces numerous setbacks while adapting to his new life in Houston, Texas.
Midnight Sun (2016) is a crime drama TV show set in northern Sweden. The story revolves around a female homicide detective and a French police officer who form an unlikely partnership to solve a series of murders in a small town near the Arctic Circle. As they investigate the killings, they uncover a conspiracy that leads them to confront their own deeply guarded secrets.
A story that follows a man who discovers a new way of living after he falls in love with a Dai girl and its people. From the moment he fell in love with Yu Bo, Xu Haoran grew to appreciate the Dai people's culture, their positivity and their philosophy towards nature and towards life. He starts to pour his passion and focus towards protecting the rainforest and the animals. Not one to be confined, Xu Haoran never expected to fall for a Dai girl and he never imagined that falling in love would be so hard. Yu Bo has just drank the cross-cupped wine with Yan Long, a man from her tribe who has been pursuing her. His girlfriend Han Wenwen is unwilling to accept that she has lost in love. Moreover, Yu Bo's aunt turns out to be the woman that his father abandoned a long time ago. Even as he finds solutions for his problems, it is said that to love is easy but to stay together is difficult. Will he overcome the challenges to be with the woman that he loves?
Set in and around Stanton, a faceless and grim Northern enclave, The Cops depicts the daily grind for a group of policemen and women out on the beat as they interact, and sometimes clash, with the local community.
Before the Rain is a movie set in war-torn Macedonia, exploring themes of love, violence, and social commentary. The story follows three interconnected parts, depicting the lives of various characters affected by the ethnic warfare in the Balkan region.
Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.
In the village of Utfjord, Sami Elin fights to preserve the pastures of the family that runs reindeer, but when she falls in love with Daniel, her values are put to the test.
After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.
Sami Blood is a powerful coming-of-age drama set in 1930s Lapland, following a Sami girl who is sent to a boarding school where she experiences racism and struggles with her cultural identity. Determined to prove herself, she faces pain and desires to return to her home and people. The film explores themes of race, lineage, and the search for belonging.
Roma is Russian-Armenian. He is studying to be a lawyer but does not want to be a lawyer, he tells his parents that he goes to college, but he works in a pizzeria, he tells a friend that he likes Natasha, but this is not true. Once he meets Lesha, and everything in life takes on meaning: study, friendship, relationships with relatives and friends. Everything in life becomes important with love.
The Children of Leningradsky is a documentary that follows the lives of homeless children living in the Leningradsky Railway Station in Moscow. It explores the tragic events and struggles of these children, including drug abuse, child prostitution, and the challenges they face as orphans in post-Soviet Union Russia.
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.
A thought-provoking documentary that delves into the complex issues surrounding surveillance, privacy, and human rights in the age of advanced technology.
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during a war between Russia and Chechnya.
Century of Smoke is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the profound impact of opium addiction on a father-son relationship in Laos. Through the lens of art and personal experiences, the film sheds light on the struggles faced by an ethnic-minority family, highlighting the complexities of addiction and its repercussions on family dynamics.
In the early 1900s, a young girl falls in love with a gypsy amidst a backdrop of ethnic minority discrimination. Their tragic romance is met with challenges as they navigate through a world of theft and hardship. The story is told through captivating musical numbers and explores themes of love, loss, and cultural struggles.
Somewhere in Sweden, a gigantic dumpster breaks free from a heavy chain suspended underneath a big helicopter. The dumpster hits the ground with a formidable crash and the garbage spouts out into the surroundings. Meanwhile, an aging Roma woman wakes up in her house with an extremely strong desire to get her old wall clock back.
The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior and resources; and thousands of their youngest members were separated from their families to be Christianized: a cultural genocide that still resonates in Canadian society today.