The SADDEST Immigration Movie Ever! (A Better Life)

The main actor who played the father Carlos, Demián Bichir, was nominated for best actor at the 2012 Oscars for this role.

When I was a kid it was just my mom and I. I would come home to the apt from elementary and lock the doors until mom came home from work. The fear of her getting randomly caught and deported was always in my 8 year old mind thinking about what I would do. That was 22 years ago. Now I'm a Marine vet and an engineer and she is close to getting her residence. My wife and I are taking her to Hawaii to celebrate. Her struggles paid of for a better life for us. Need to watch this movie and am glad I saw your vid.

That hit way hard, I'm a poor, often homeless black man, constantly trying to move up. This definitely is a universal theme.

Bruh that 1st voicemail hit me outta no where… it’s so emotional 💔 all alone… lotion on… just strokin his shit :(

Pulling at my heart strings man, my father was deported twice. 2nd time took him 2 weeks to go home, dehydrated & starved while having to defend a few young girls from the coyotes. I can never thank that man enough for fighting for his family and risking his life for us and others.

I don't have a dad but my grandpa is the only person I'll ever consider as a father figure. He reminds me of the dad in the movie. Hard working man. He also has had his truck stolen multiple times but thankfully he is armed with guns to protect himself from thugs

I'm a British Asian and i have always been fascinated with Mexican American/Chicano culture. Got yourself a new subscriber.

the first time I ever saw this movie, I cried and hugged my dad super hard...

You got mad potential chamaco, got them notifications on keep these videos coming guarantee you're gonna blow, us Hispanics been needing a channel like yours for a long ahh time now, fw your channel heavy 💯💯💯

Bro someone stole my immigrated Grandpa's truck too back in Fontana😭 lol glad I found your channel 😎

His boss was also in El Infierno. Should give that a watch/review 🔥

Bro this movie hits to close to home dawg. It was straight up me and my dad..especially the voicemail part...here i am 29 my dad got deported when i was 21 we had our first beer toogether then the next day got the voicemail from him havent seen him in person since but i got two new baby sisters within the time but in 2 years he's gna be able to come back and visit.

Yes another Mexican-American YouTuber that's going to make it up there I'm one myself let's hope we do good Godspeed

Just binge watched the whole channel, not many. But definitely worth it; only bad part is I gotta wait for the next upload

Dont say that mijo killed me everytime

Yooo 😂 that voicemail caught me off guard 😂😂😂 You’re a character hermano. keep it up!

Lol you ain’t got no licenses.” Don’t say that too loud 😂😂😂😂😂 I can relate

my dad was deported when I was 10. The actor in this film looks identical to him. It was hard to watch. I really wish i had a dad growing up. Maybe i'd have a better life if that was the case...

This video was on my feed, thanks to the YouTube algorithm. This movie really hit me when I saw it since a lot of things portrayed in it were things my mom and myself experienced. We were living in Arizona for the most part when we lived back in the US the whole immigration situation started to worsen yearly since the 9/11 event. I remember one summer I worked to buy one of them prepaid cellphones and use it on the bus just to call my mom every morning while I went to school since there was no shorter route for her to take to work however, some occasions there was roadblocks where ICE would do random inspections. I would call my mom to inform her if there was or not, it was just my mom and myself where we couldn't afford to have her deported in case she would get stopped for an inspection. My mom also had her car robbed by a so called "friend's mom" of mine where my mom was doing a good deed to help her by selling the car we had so she could move around with her family and with that money we would then buy a better car. I remember going around the town to hunt her down after she kept avoiding my mom's calls for the money, she sold the car to someone else but didn't want to give my mom the money she owed her, I wanted to beat the 💩out of her but my mom stopped me and simply forgave her, soon a few months after a decline in my mom's health we came back to Mexico and have been here for almost 17 years now since this event. Every time they broadcast this movie on tv, it brings these memories back to me...

My dad cried when he saw this movie