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82
7.5
/34882/
75
/831/
76
/729/
3.8
/19294/
88
/119/
89
/1262/
77
/22/

Sin Nombre (2009)
Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.
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Kanopy
81
6.4
/7626/
70
/173/
73
/113/
4.0
/14179/
94
/93/
77
/9/
90
/29/

Green Border (2023)
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.4
/37328/
73
/482/
71
/411/
3.6
/17159/
97
/142/
87
/1568/
87
/39/
cc age 17+

Maria Full of Grace (2004)
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
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Criterion Channel
81
7.2
/25096/
72
/479/
70
/460/
3.9
/30641/
99
/98/
75
/324/
82
/26/

Le Havre (2011)
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
poster
81
7.6
/45253/
73
/441/
71
/372/
3.8
/11022/
90
/174/
91
/1662/
76
/41/
cc age 15+

In America (2003)
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Netflix
80
7.4
/3325/
75
/110/
74
/61/
3.9
/32084/
99
/95/
90
/21/
77
/18/
cc age 15+

Left-Handed Girl (2025)
A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.
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Fandango at Home Free
80
7.4
/35092/
72
/680/
70
/391/
3.9
/29389/
91
/140/
83
/440/
79
/23/

Lone Star (1996)
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/45846/
73
/765/
71
/484/
3.7
/12987/
89
/121/
84
/3835/
79
/29/
cc age 13+

The Visitor (2008)
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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Kanopy
78
7.2
/45272/
71
/816/
68
/475/
3.6
/14752/
94
/142/
82
/1224/
78
/35/

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
poster
77
7.1
/27067/
68
/505/
66
/339/
3.6
/8122/
88
/137/
74
/1650/
82
/30/
cc age 16+

Frozen River (2008)
After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.
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Kanopy
77
7.3
/19105/
72
/1241/
71
/364/
3.8
/12133/
90
/98/
82
/179/
76
/27/

Cartel Land (2015)
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
poster
75
7.3
/4520/
66
/46/
62
/53/
3.6
/1402/
89
/62/
88
/117/
75
/25/

In This World (2003)
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
75
7.7
/8902/
73
/137/
72
/174/
4.0
/11110/
95
/22/
90
/104/
82
/17/

La Promesse (1996)
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
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Kanopy
75
7.2
/17815/
72
/497/
68
/501/
3.6
/19839/
88
/130/
81
/64/
76
/29/
cc age 17+

Dheepan (2015)
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
poster
74
7.1
/9386/
65
/115/
68
/156/
3.7
/5059/
85
/97/
69
/271/
80
/24/

Lorna's Silence (2008)
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.7
/6233/
64
/219/
66
/245/
3.5
/7836/
95
/93/
66
/25/
87
/20/
cc age 14+

Fire at Sea (2016)
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.4
/97370/
73
/1403/
72
/1162/
3.9
/62443/
66
/151/
75
/1684/
58
/33/
cc age 17+

Biutiful (2010)
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
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Kanopy
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70
7.5
/7792/
73
/184/
71
/254/
3.6
/4091/
87
/30/
86
/148/
61
/7/

Welcome (2009)
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
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77
69
7.6
/5328/
73
/135/
68
/148/
3.9
/6355/
89
/38/
86
/33/
74
/16/

The Golden Dream (2013)
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
poster
69
6.4
/36085/
62
/1172/
61
/834/
3.5
/70115/
89
/184/
58
/222/
74
/36/
cc age 18+

A Bigger Splash (2015)
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
poster
The Roku Channel
68
7.0
/4388/
63
/48/
62
/36/
3.3
/1534/
86
/94/
72
/386/
72
/31/
cc age 16+

Quinceañera (2006)
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
poster
71
68
6.8
/13156/
65
/222/
65
/345/
3.3
/5968/
85
/110/
84
/9941/
68
/21/

Paris (2008)
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
poster
72
66
7.3
/7826/
72
/134/
77
/303/
3.7
/17493/
71
/91/
82
/1175/
59
/24/
cc age 14+

Under the Same Moon (2007)
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
poster
Hulu
80
66
7.6
/3118/
78
/97/
78
/155/
3.4
/2957/
100
/6/
81
/32/

Good Day, Ramon (2013)
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
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76
65
7.5
/6499/
73
/98/
72
/116/
3.7
/3011/
86
/95/

Failan (2001)
After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.
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76
65
7.7
/6554/
72
/74/
71
/106/
3.5
/1164/
84
/25/
91
/154/
72
/14/

The Tunnel (2001)
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
poster
63
6.6
/4261/
63
/62/
58
/44/
3.3
/2756/
50
/10/
57
/56/

That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011)
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
poster
61
6.7
/68147/
68
/1210/
67
/1176/
3.2
/33517/
39
/18/
62
/1349/
53
/19/
cc age 12+

Goal! (2005)
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
poster
MGM Plus
59
6.2
/3154/
58
/55/
58
/53/
3.1
/1086/
71
/7/
29
/17/

The House on Carroll Street (1988)
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.
poster
AMC
58
6.6
/179100/
70
/6662/
66
/2817/
3.1
/64786/
53
/68/
64
/4441/
39
/21/
cc age 16+

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former leaders from prison and onto American soil.
poster
57
5.4
/47915/
60
/4558/
68
/2611/
2.3
/110031/
48
/161/
78
/521/
53
/33/
cc age 17+

The Forever Purge (2021)
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
57
6.9
/4031/
64
/59/
62
/34/
3.2
/3100/
79
/56/
72
/123/

Flower Drum Song (1961)
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
poster
62
57
6.4
/7513/
66
/152/
61
/138/
3.3
/3668/
65
/26/
52
/73/
66
/11/

The Border (1982)
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
poster
56
6.3
/25958/
60
/457/
60
/384/
2.9
/14552/
49
/146/
42
/3188/
64
/33/
cc age 16+

Fast Food Nation (2006)
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
poster
70
54
7.4
/4065/
70
/41/
58
/41/
3.5
/531/
78
/76/
79
/98/
64
/23/
cc age 17+

The Beautiful Country (2004)
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
poster
Peacock Premium
53
6.3
/24560/
64
/1888/
60
/475/
2.8
/20410/
40
/233/
62
/295/
47
/49/
cc age 15+

Irresistible (2020)
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
poster
fuboTV
66
52
7.0
/2974/
61
/45/
68
/43/
3.5
/2075/
71
/7/
57
/29/

Border Incident (1949)
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
poster
64
52
7.2
/11061/
64
/85/
64
/56/
3.4
/1407/
56
/78/

Tere Bin Laden (2010)
Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar), a reporter with a downmarket TV channel in Karachi, is keen to go to USA for a better life, but his visa has been refused six times in seven years. In desperation, he gets hold of an Osama Bin Laden look alike and makes a fake Osama tape which he sells to the owner of his channel to raise money for a false identity, a new passport and better luck with US visa. As one can expect, it is far from smooth sailing for him and his friends, as they get into a series of comic situations.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
6.7
/25350/
65
/706/
61
/393/
2.9
/3585/
15
/107/
49
/1011/
38
/31/
cc age 17+

Crossing Over (2009)
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
poster
Kanopy
69
50
6.3
/1840/
60
/93/
67
/68/
3.4
/9956/
88
/52/
72
/4/
71
/16/

Disco Boy (2023)
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei, a Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, a Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...
poster
62
48
6.6
/2509/
61
/73/
60
/48/
3.4
/2127/
57
/7/
60
/27/

The Second Civil War (1997)
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
poster
68
47
7.4
/2408/
71
/30/
66
/34/
3.6
/1652/
60

The Bus (1974)
A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.
poster
Kanopy
76
46
7.3
/1217/
75
/29/
65
/18/
3.5
/864/
88
/8/
84
/51/

Between Us (2009)
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana and Anthony Chisholm also star in this gritty independent drama jointly written and directed by Mendoza and her collaborator Gloria La Morte.
poster
The Roku Channel
49
43
5.5
/7724/
55
/200/
59
/207/
2.6
/1565/
27
/168/

The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
poster
62
40
6.2
/1265/
53
/19/
56
/18/
3.5
/683/
80
/25/
48
/112/
68
/9/

Heartbeat Detector (2007)
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
39
7.3
/899/
73
/36/
57
/20/
3.8
/1545/
100
/6/
78
/4/

Alambrista! (1977)
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
poster
69
37
6.8
/1161/
54
/17/
65
/13/
82
/11/
76
/23/

True North (2007)
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
poster
62
36
6.5
/1970/
61
/83/
59
/66/
3.1
/821/
65
/22/

The War Boys (2009)
David, George, and Greg, best friends since high school, are “The War Boys”. They used to perch on the US-Mexican border, waiting to spot illegal immigrants who were trying to run into the United States. Sometimes, without a thought for the immigrants, the boys chased them across the wasteland and back across the border – just for fun. It was just one of those games boys played to make themselves feel big. But high school’s over now. David is unexpectedly home from his freshman year of college and the War Boys have been reunited.


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