Movies and TvShows featuring "expat" theme.
Based on the true story and memoir, The Durrells is a comedy-drama TV show about a widowed mother and her four children who relocate to the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s. They experience culture shock and navigate the challenges of their new life, forming friendships and discovering the natural beauty of the island, all while facing the humorous challenges that arise from their peculiar family dynamics.
A tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong navigate their personal and professional lives amidst a vibrant and tumultuous backdrop. Margaret, Hilary, and Mercy's lives converge following a family tragedy, challenging notions of privilege and blurring the line between victimhood and culpability.
Liv moves to London and encounters a group of boys with the ability to travel through dreams. They decide to perform a ritual to make their greatest dream a reality, but it comes at a high cost.
In Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, a chance meeting leads two strangers to spend an evening together exploring the city. As they roam the streets of Hong Kong, they form a connection and share their personal stories. The movie explores themes of attraction, unrequited love, and the complexities of modern relationships.
In the summer of 1986, a group of Korean-American teenagers comes to Seoul to participate in a special government-sponsored summer camp. They are hoping to connect with their cultural heritage and find their identity as Korean-Americans. Throughout their time in Seoul, they navigate the challenges of teenage rebellion, cultural differences, and discovering their true selves. The camp becomes a transformative experience for all of them.
A man in Athens, Greece is married to a beautiful but demanding wife. He works as a mechanical engineer but constantly finds himself spending money on nights out and seductions. His cousin, a Greek-American expat, comes to town and gets him into even more trouble. Will he be able to keep his secrets and save his marriage?
Salmonberries is a drama film set in Alaska, where a lesbian musician from East Germany finds herself drawn to a loner librarian. The two form an unexpected bond and discover solace and companionship in each other's company. As they navigate their complex personal histories and cultural differences, they find common ground through their shared experiences of love, loss, and the search for identity.
John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit.
In the 1980s, an American man recovering from a broken leg travels to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. He forms a partnership with a native tribe and goes on a road trip to find gold. Along the way, he faces various challenges and obstacles, including a fistfight, car journey, and running out of fuel. He also deals with personal issues, like being a single father to his teenage daughter and making difficult decisions, such as mercy killing.
For too long, a nephew has been lying to his rich uncle about his marital status, to get his monthly cheques. But, when he pays a sudden visit, only a young architect can save him. Will she be able to pass herself off as his loving wife?
A look at what life is like for the millionaires and billionaires who live in the tax haven in the United Arab Emirates, as well as the people who serve them.
A troubled American living in England spends his days self-medicating and working as a reluctant substitute teacher until events force him to face his past and reclaim his life.
Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction develops between them and after a while Dinos asks for her hand in marriage. Helena though cannot accept his proposal because she is pregnant.
A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially.
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
'Atlal (Remnants)' is a fictional documentary that follows Bassam, a Palestinian man in his fifties, on a journey between the past and present. An abandoned school, the remains of a beach club, and a dusty cinema hold Bassam's cherished memories from his life in Qatar. Through personal archives and interviews with Bassam and his wife, Laila, we get a deeper look into their stories—slowly revealing the dismaying thoughts behind Bassam's nostalgia.
A notary calls in the office three brothers: Theophrastus, Telis and Kokkovio Karampoumpouna and announces the death of their distant uncle from Chicago, who left their legacy sixty thousand US dollars, provided to start a company together. Telis, the most intelligent, has its own photography and aims, with the help of his fiancée Bubi, eat whole heritage. Two friends Bubi, Mirka and Jenny, are employed, diplaronoun naive and the plan seems to be going well.
Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspondence, to find a rich woman from abroad to marry and, in this way, hit the jackpot.
Melina is part of a Czech cultural club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she practices traditional folk dance. She is in love with one of the other dancers in the group, Marco, but she can't express her love to him. During the witch-burning festival of pálení čarodějnic, she will attempt to express her feelings.