Law Library Movies

	Alien Nation (1988) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    90 min.   Plot: When a detective's partner is killed, he sets out to solve the crime with the LAPD's first extraterrestrial cop. Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terrence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis. Directed by Graham Baker. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Immigration  Criminal Law
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	Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    99 min.   Plot: An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown. Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall. Directed by John Carpenter. Categories: Comedy  SciFi/Fantasy  Immigration
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	Coming to America (1988) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    116 min.   Plot: An African prince goes to Queens, New York, to find a wife. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley. Directed by John Landis. Categories: Comedy  Immigration  Employment
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	District 9 (2009) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    112 min.   Plot: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. Cast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Categories: Immigration  Politics  SciFi/Fantasy
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	Gangs of New York (2002) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    166 min.   Plot: In 1863, a man returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against his father's killer. Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Categories: Immigration  Drama
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	Hester Street (1975) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    89 min.  B&W Plot: While trying to earn the money to bring his family to the US, a recent Jewish immigrant becomes increasingly Americanized. Cast: Anna Berger, Ed Crowley, Paul Freedman, Sol Frieder, Lauren Frost, Martin Garner, Carol Kane. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. Categories: Immigration  Family  Drama
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	In America (2002) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    105 min.   Plot: An impoverished Irish family searches for a better life amidst the dangers of New York City's Hell's Kitchen. Cast: Samantha Morton, Paddy Constantine, Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Jim Sheridan. Categories: Immigration  Poverty  Family
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	Long Way Home, The (1997) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: VHS    120 min.  B&W Plot: After WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margoyles, David Praymer. Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. Categories: Documentary  War  Immigration
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	Maria Full of Grace (2004) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    101 min.   Plot: A young Colombian girl enters the ruthless world of drug trafficking to escape her country for the United States. In Spanish with English subtitles. Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Jhon Alexander Toro. Directed by Joshua Marston. Categories: Immigration  Poverty  Foreign
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	Scarface (1983) Rated:   Stars: ****1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  170 min.   Plot: A determined Cuban immigrant succumbs to greed while building a criminal empire. Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Brian De Palma. Categories: Criminal Law  Immigration
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	Sophie's Choice (1982) Rated:   Stars: *** 1/2 Format: DVD    150 min.   Plot: A Polish-Catholic concentration camp survivor embroiled in a lovers' drama in post WWII Brooklyn. Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Categories: Human Rights  War  Immigration
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	Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  89 min.  B&W Plot: A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise, and unwelcome, visit by his pretty sixteen-year-old Hungarian cousin. Cast: John Lurie, Estzer Balint, Richard Edson. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Categories: Immigration  Comedy
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	Terminal, The (2004) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    129 min.   Plot: An Eastern European visitor becomes a resident of JFK airport when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport. Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Categories: Romance  Immigration  International
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	Visitor, The (2007) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    104 min.   Plot: A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment. Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman. Directed by Thomas McCarthy. Categories: Immigration  Housing  Drama
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The W&M Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to our Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you think the library should own, please submit a suggestion form at the circulation desk, or send us an email at [[lawcir]]. You can see a list of all Law Library movies in the online catalog.