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Nothing to Declare(2010)

1h 48min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 500 votes)

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

Frozen River(2008)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 130 votes)

Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.

The Border(1982)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

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.

Borderline(1980)

PG
| 1h 37min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

Green Border(2023)

2h 27min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Piotr Stramowski, Agata Kulesza, Maciej Stuhr, Jalal Altawil, ...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce(1964)

NR
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Passion, intrigue, adventure, love... everything happens in The Yellow Rolls-Royce. One luxury automobile ties together three stories as it passes from owner to owner. In the first, an aristocrat with a penchant for the racetrack discovers his wife has a penchant for backseat amour. Then a moll takes a spin down lover's lane in the Rolls while her mobster boyfriend is busy rubbing out the competition. Finally, an imperious widow purchases the car and drives straight into danger as she helps an anti-fascist escape the Nazis.

Free Zone(2005)

1h 30min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.

Directed by Amos Gitai - With Natalie Portman, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Hana Laszlo, Makram Khoury, Aki Avni, ...

The War Boys(2009)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

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.

Undocumented(2010)

1h 36min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.

Papers, Please: The Short Film(2018)

11min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

An official adaptation of the award winning game "Papers, Please" by Lucas Pope.

The Snorkel(1958)

NR
| 1h 30min | Thriller, Crime, Horror
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.

Directed by Guy Green - With Peter van Eyck

14 Kilometers(2007)

1h 35min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

Directed by Gerardo Olivares
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The Aliens(2018)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A UFO believer must choose between the aliens above he has never seen or the mysterious guide who appears in his campsite week after week.

Night Chase(1970)

1h 35min | TV Movie, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.

Directed by Jack Starrett

Which Way Home(2009)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 8 votes)

"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.

Directed by Rebecca Cammisa

Common Ground(2018)

1h 7min | Documentary

An internet personality journeys to his hometown on the border between Texas and Mexico to visit family members, only to discover that his family’s immigration story parallels that of people risking everything to immigrate to the U.S. today.

Directed by Mat Hames

Night Bus(2017)

2h 19min | Drama

A group of civilians share a bus ride to Sampar, a town full of natural resources. It is heavily guarded by the state army who is fighting against the rebel militias, who want freedom over their homeland.

Jeff Ross Roasts the Border(2017)

50min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Roastmaster Jeff Ross explores the world surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border, speaking to immigrants, DREAMers, detainees, border patrolers, human traffickers and Trump supporters. Then he puts on a show next to the border wall to roast American immigration policies, random audience volunteers and every ethnicity imaginable.

Sonntagsfahrer(1963)

1h 26min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Gerhard Klein

A Hero's Death(2001)

50min | Documentary

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.

Night Without Distance(2015)

23min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

An instant in the memory of landscape: the smuggling that for centuries crossed the line between Portugal and Galicia. The Gerês Mountains knows no borders, and rocks cross from one country to another with insolence. Smugglers also disobey this separation. The rocks, the river, the trees: silent witnesses that help them to hide. They just have to wait for the night to cross the distance that separates them.

The Right Girls(2020)

1h 26min | Documentary
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this documentary about friendship and perseverance, three young transgender women from El Salvador and Honduras go on a 2,400-mile journey with the high-profile migrant caravan. These women, strangers at the outset and fleeing extortion, discrimination, and abusive relationships, endure hardship as they slowly make their way to the US, teaming up with other trans girls along the route and integrating with the caravan’s LGBTQ community.

Option Zero(2021)

1h 20min | Documentary

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.

Birth on the border(2018)

28min | Documentary

One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day in both directions. Among them are women from Ciudad Juárez who cross to give birth in El Paso, Texas. Even with visas that allow them to cross, their journeys are uncertain. Gaby and Luisa, two women from Ciudad Juárez, cross legally into El Paso, Texas, in order to give birth. Two Chicana midwives in El Paso, Lina and Sandra, support the women who cross. After living through the extreme violence that engulfed Ciudad Juárez from 2008-2012 and with the looming threat of obstetrical violence in Mexican hospitals, Gaby and Luisa choose to cross, seeking a safer future for their children and the opportunity for natural childbirth with midwives. They risk losing their visas, getting turned back, and harassment at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol. Against the backdrop of oppressive U.S. border policy, these women's stories of risk and resilience reveal the complexities of life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Line(2014)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A teenage girl and a young boy run for their lives to cross 'The Line', but are they running away from danger or towards it?