Transamerica
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
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Amexicano
Duration: 1 h 24 m | 2007
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
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