American Dream Movies

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

A journey into time, landscape and consciousness: The Southwestern United States in the black-and-white moving images and unsettling instrumental...

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble...

In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own...

An ambitious Filipina nurse leaves her family behind in the Philippines to chase the American Dream in the 1990s, only to find herself battling...

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t...

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant...

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

A dejected Vietnam veteran in early 70s Los Angeles yearns for an obsolete American dream and faces the violence that comes with it.