Oh, I can think of loads off the top of my head. I saw 'Wetback' and 'Crossing Arizona' over the summer, and they were really interesting. There was another one about INS headaches, I'm not completely sure about the title though -- 'Founded Fears' or something? Those are both more documentary than drama, though, so I'm not sure if they're what you're looking for. Other films I can think of:
Bread and Roses, Mexico House of Sand and Fog, Iran West Side Story, Puerto Rico The Joy Luck Club, China Bend it Like Beckham, India The Mambo Kings, Cuba Lost Boys of Sudan, Sudan obviously God Grew Tired of Us, Sudan Spanglish, Mexico Stand and Deliver, Mexico (I think, it's been eons since I saw this)
Oh, and AN AMERICAN TALE, which I was positively obsessed with when I was a kid.
Haven't seen "The Terminal", is that with Tom Hanks? "Maria Full Of Grace" was interesting and I liked "Crash" even though I thought they really took it to the extremes.
I know you are looking for features, but I just saw a documentary on PBS about garment workers called *Made in L.A.*. But you probably know that. I thought it was very good.
I thought of two movies when I read your post, Man Push Cart about a Pakistani coffee seller in Manhattan and the more positive What's Cooking about thanksgiving in an LA neighbourhood, where one family is Mexican and another Chinese. Ah, and then of course The Namesake about the gap between the American-born Gogol and his Indian parents.
Oh wow, "Man Push Cart" sounds really interesting, so does "The Namesake", thanks - I put in it my Netflix queue. :) I have seen "What's Cooking" and thought it wasn't that great but it definitely was on topic.
This year I saw an Australian film: "Romulus, My Father" which I liked a lot, which is about the immigrant experience here in Australia. Franka Potente was in it. I am not sure if it ever made it to the states. Australia, like America is a country of immigrants.
I have always been interested in the subject, but mostly because it's more personal than for most people.
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Bread and Roses, Mexico
House of Sand and Fog, Iran
West Side Story, Puerto Rico
The Joy Luck Club, China
Bend it Like Beckham, India
The Mambo Kings, Cuba
Lost Boys of Sudan, Sudan obviously
God Grew Tired of Us, Sudan
Spanglish, Mexico
Stand and Deliver, Mexico (I think, it's been eons since I saw this)
Oh, and AN AMERICAN TALE, which I was positively obsessed with when I was a kid.
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Maria Full of Grace, Colombia
Crash, general
The Terminal, bit of a stretch but same idea
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East is East (1999) also. Like Bend it Like Beckham this is also set in the UK.
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I have always been interested in the subject, but mostly because it's more personal than for most people.
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