American Dream Movies

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the...

Examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power and control has glorified individualism, institutionalized...

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a deep dive into the heart of Arizona, meeting the...

Wokman shares an immigrant Chinese family’s pursuit of the American Dream from inside of their restaurant, China Wok. Based in 1998...

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

Following in the footsteps of the first film, "The Price of the American Dream II" continues the story of Laura Munoz who has grown considerably...

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become...

When Paul and Sandy Darden (Judge Reinhold and Demi Moore) move into a seemingly quiet upper-middle-class community, their American Dream is all but...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will...

Iconic imageries and moments of strange magic in California.

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...

A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

In order to pass a history class and save his student visa, Caleb Shatar must earn extra credit by starring in his eccentric history...

So Yun Um’s debut feature is a moving portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of...

Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and...