Movies and TvShows featuring "guest-worker" theme.

In 1755, soldier Ludvig Kahlen arrives on the barren Jutland heath to follow the king's call and cultivate the land. However, a cruel landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, claims the heath as his own and seeks revenge when Kahlen helps a runaway serf. Kahlen refuses to back down and risks his life and the bond with his new family on the heath.

Border Incident is a crime film noir thriller that explores the illegal immigration trade and the abuse suffered by Mexican migrant workers.

A documentary that explores the unknown music of Turkish guest workers and their descendants in Germany. It delves into the unique subculture and showcases the vibrant and forgotten stories of this community.

Hallo, Munich is a documentary short that explores the experiences of guest workers in Munich, focusing on the stories of those from Germany and Croatia. The film sheds light on the challenges faced by these individuals and the impact of their migration on their lives.

They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, energetic career woman who has managed to work her way up to become a successful television journalist. She goes to visit her parent's country, to do a story about the children of immigrant workers in their home country. Although she says she doesn´t need a "home" any more, even she feels strange in her own country. Peter is a rather "untypical" sort of man: a dreamer, a thinker. He has given up his steady job as a composer for advertising films and is divorced. He goes to Jugoslavia to find something out about the past. He travels to the places where his father was stationed during the Second World War.

Turkish immigrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared apartment and commuting daily to his job at a factory pressing machine parts. Diligently saving up his wages he hopes to one day marry and buy a house back home, but his immediate future in Berlin is clouded by indignities at the hands of racist coworkers and botched attempts at romantic intimacy. With only his fellow immigrant housemates as patchwork community, Husseyin perseveres with a quiet dignity in the face of an alienating country.

The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and the other one wants to earn money by smuggling, Beli. Between them two there's young woman, Mila, who has had experience with the second one. Running away from the man who is the incarnation of evil for her, she is trying to find happiness and peace with another one in vain.

Harvest of Loneliness is a documentary that delves into the lives and struggles of Mexican immigrant farm workers in the United States. It sheds light on their journey, challenges, and contributions to the American agricultural industry.

Follows the life of a Turkish woman living and working in Germany.

Tenants of one old building in the centre of Münich are featured in this film: most of them are foreigners who work in Germany as "guest workers" (Yugoslavs, Italians, Turks, Greeks etc.). In their mother tongue, each of them tells who he or she is, and briefly talks about their major worries, new hopes and plans for the future.

A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his 20 year old son back in their country of origin. However the son plans to marry his German girlfriend, and doesn't even think of returning to their land.