Which Way Home (2009), The Visitor (2007), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), Under the Same Moon (2007), In This World (2002), Frozen River (2008), Someone Else's America (1995) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Illegal Immigration movies.
Storyline: "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. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans, who are desperately trying to reach their parents in the US.; children like Jose, a ten-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise fourteen-year old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the children you never hear about; the invisible ones.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: migrant, immigrant, young boy, young girl, teen boy, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Connecticut, lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna ...
Plot Keywords: professor, musician, mother, heartwarming, sad, emotional, connecticut ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In order to free his best friend Paul Bondi from jail, cowboy Jack Burns gets himself imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased in the mountains by sheriff Johnson with a helicopter and jeeps.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: cowboy, sheriff, wife, deputy, friend, disheartening, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Plot Keywords: rancher, border patrol officer, sheriff, waitress, wife, ranch hand, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his grandmother dies, a Mexican boy (Adrian Alonso) sets out to join his mother (Kate del Castillo) in the United States.
Plot Keywords: cleaning lady, child, grandmother, inspiring, emotional, los angeles, border ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families poses a terrible challenge to the boys.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: refugee, smuggler, police officer, travel agent, brother, mother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila - and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game.
Plot Keywords: mother, dog, young girl, widow, immigrant, emotional, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".—Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>
Plot Keywords: immigrant, illegal immigrant, mother, bar owner, friend, emotional, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy film-noir menace...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, migrant worker, farmer, gang member, undercover agent, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Plot Keywords: son, con artist, father, prostitute, police officer, gritty, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands in the lovely form of Kirk's daughter, Julie, whom he catches swimming in the nude and pumps for information. But she's fiercely loyal to her dad, and may be too attractive for Joe's own good. Racy pre-Code sexual situations.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: reporter, smuggler, daughter, illegal immigrant, police officer, editor, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An illegal Honduran immigrant (Jesus Nebot) flees with his daughter (Chelsea Rendon) after accidentally killing a child while driving.
Plot Keywords: illegal alien, immigrant, daughter, filmmaker, father, professor, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Plot Keywords: migrant, mexican, psychopath, sniper, dog, woman, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tucson, Ariz., businessman Steve (Brian Petersen) is bored with his post-retirement life, until he has an idea for a new money-making scheme: becoming a "coyote" and smuggling Mexicans across the border into the United States. Together with his friend J. (Brett Spackman), Steve puts his business savvy to work for his fledgling smuggling business, offering an easy, gentle transition into the States. But he soon realizes he's bitten off more than he can chew.
Plot Keywords: smuggler, businessman, mexican, son, militia member, fiancée, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Plot Keywords: illegal immigrant, young woman, bleak, brooding, emotional, moving, intense ...
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