Asian American Movies

Short documentary on the screen depiction and public reception of fictional Chinese-American detective character Charlie Chan, as well as cultural...

After receiving a housewarming rug from his sister, a Cambodian adoptee discovers a dark history hidden underneath its surface.

When a journalist is assigned to profile a businessman, she discovers that he has a story that is related to her haunted past.

After being sexually assaulted by a well-respected professor, a reclusive Chinese American girl who grew up in an abusive family struggles to find...

The filmmaker's father and uncle, Norm and Stan, are third generation Japanese Americans. They are "all American" guys who love bowling, cards and...

A clumsy and rather unskilled, but good-hearted son of two Asian restaurant owners, concocts a new way to help the family business.

Three Asian Americans tell their stories of immigration, growing up, assimilation, and finding themselves in this heartfelt stand-up comedy special.

A man with night terrors is greeted by an unexpected and supernaturally gifted guru.

In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six...

A film about a boy's turbulent time in high school.

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

Feeling Asian American explores the emotional journeys of five individuals, who navigated their way through their own racial reckonings in the face...

A struggling actor's home is broken into by the famous acting coach, Sebastian Navarro Rodrigo Rivera, who offers to coach him.

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the...

Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...

A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...

A revenge-driven high school senior gathers a group of four other women, including a permanently limped former athlete, to plot the murder of their...

Through handmade outfits and dancing, Coby, a 93 year old retired Chinatown nightclub performer, and Stephen, an artist twenty years her junior, find...

Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American...