Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "migrant-farmworker"

1. East of Eden (1955)

PG | 118 min | Drama

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives

Votes: 48,772

2. Ander (2009)

128 min | Drama, Romance

A love story between a Basque farmer and a Peruvian immigrant.

Director: Roberto Castón | Stars: Eriz Alberdi, Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, J.C. Gurrutxaga

Votes: 982

3. The Migrants (1974 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Cloris Leachman, Ron Howard, Sissy Spacek, Cindy Williams

Votes: 117

4. Count the Hours! (1953)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara

Votes: 604

5. Alambrista! (1977)

Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty

Votes: 773

6. The Unbroken Sky (2023)

24 min | Short, Biography, Drama

In 1950s California, an undocumented Mexican teenager struggles to stay in school while working weekends with his family in the fields and dodging the authorities to avoid deportation. Based on the beloved books by Francisco Jiménez.

Director: Josh Peterson | Stars: Ricardo Gonzalez, Edgar de Santiago, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Julia Arteaga

7. Maldita miseria (1983)

95 min | Drama, Music

Poor people struggle with hardship.

Director: Julio Aldama | Stars: Mercedes Castro, Rafael Inclán, Lupita Castro, Alfredo Wally Barrón

Votes: 20

8. ...and the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)

99 min | Drama

Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing... See full summary »

Director: Severo Perez | Stars: Jose Alcala, Rose Portillo, Art Bonilla, Marco Rodríguez

Votes: 165

9. The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011)

80 min | Documentary

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.

Director: U. Roberto Romano | Star: Perla Sanchez

Votes: 72 | Gross: $0.00M

10. Mountain Rhythm (1943)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Music

The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lynn Merrick

Votes: 16

11. Immokalee U.S.A. (2008)

Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary

Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. A vast majority of... See full summary »

Director: Georg Koszulinski

Votes: 36

12. Esperanza's Turn (2020)

12 min | Short, Drama

A 12 year-old immigrant farm worker taps into her imagination to confront a bully at school.

Director: Melissa Gregory Rue | Stars: Niku Edlund-Farsad, Nelda Reyes, Tom Avila, Maxwell Sivers Boyce

13. New Harvest, Old Shame (1990 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

A sequel to Edward R. Murrow's famous Harvest of Shame documentary, showing the deplorable conditions of migrant farm workers in 1960, found little has changed in 30 years.

Director: Hector Galan | Star: Dave Marash

14. The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode: Smoke Screen (1963)

TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Kimble and a group of farm workers are surrounded in the hills by a huge fire and he must reveal that he's a doctor in order to save the life of a pregnant, illegal immigrant.

Director: Claudio Guzmán | Stars: David Janssen, Beverly Garland, Alejandro Rey, Pina Pellicer

Votes: 235

15. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Migrant Workers (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Inside information helps thieves rob a group of recently-paid itinerant fruit pickers, but murder results when one particularly desperate victim refuses to follow their orders.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Michael Monroe, Rayford Barnes, Eddie Foy III

Votes: 67