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84
8.4
/121040/
83
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81
/1879/
4.2
/114476/
90
/181/
93
/198/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
Netflix
82
7.2
/55149/
73
/2610/
71
/764/
3.5
/242325/
94
/372/
94
/1444/
84
/55/
cc age 11+

In the Heights (2021)
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
poster
81
7.7
/5972/
77
/112/
71
/76/
3.9
/8028/
92
/61/
82
/159/
75
/10/

El Norte (1983)
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
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84
81
7.9
/15790/
79
/245/
77
/204/
4.4
/39653/
95
/22/
93
/138/
80
/21/

Eternity and a Day (1998)
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.
poster
77
7.1
/27045/
68
/501/
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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Criterion Channel
81
75
7.7
/8888/
73
/135/
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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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/17001/
69
/397/
71
/260/
3.5
/7486/
86
/104/
79
/596/
64
/30/
cc age 14+

A Better Life (2011)
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.4
/97257/
73
/1401/
72
/1158/
3.9
/62233/
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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71
65
6.9
/5890/
65
/143/
67
/84/
3.8
/9116/
74
/31/
82
/182/
64
/13/

Princesses (2005)
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
5.3
/8961/
56
/566/
53
/216/
3.1
/28177/
91
/148/
67
/62/
72
/30/
cc age 15+

Nanny (2022)
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
poster
74
63
6.9
/2820/
68
/50/
65
/66/
3.9
/7671/
82
/11/
76
/46/
82
/8/

Blissfully Yours (2002)
Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant.
poster
62
57
6.4
/7502/
66
/151/
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.
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74
57
7.0
/3462/
69
/179/
69
/180/
3.5
/5174/
93
/27/
73
/6/

A Girl at My Door (2014)
Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.
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52
7.0
/2958/
61
/42/
69
/42/
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.
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Netflix
71
49
6.6
/1501/
63
/59/
59
/45/
3.5
/2063/
93
/14/
76
/4/
75
/5/
cc age 17+

Joy (2019)
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
poster
56
48
5.8
/3931/
64
/188/
55
/73/
2.9
/1295/
63
/10340/
40
/6/

Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them, swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture.
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MGM Plus
70
45
6.6
/585/
65
/11/
45
/2/
3.4
/894/
97
/29/
80
/13/

Preparation for the Next Life (2025)
Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.
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51
45
5.6
/7911/
60
/228/
59
/157/
2.5
/1781/
31
/170/

Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
Robinson, a once peaceful, law-abiding school teacher, has turned into an obsessed vengeance machine, intent on killing the man who murdered his wife - ruthless Las Vegas mob boss James Dolan. But to do so, Robinson must infiltrate the dangerous underworld, and devise a diabolical plan that will bury Dolan once and for all.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
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41
6.2
/876/
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/61/
71
/28/
3.5
/643/
100
/9/
78
/15/

Icebox (2018)
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
poster
75
40
7.2
/958/
71
/9/
60
/10/
3.6
/468/
100
/5/
79
/216/

The Home Song Stories (2007)
A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.
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59
32
5.8
/1506/
59
/65/
60
/36/
3.1
/650/
57
/30/

Undocumented (2010)
A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.
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68
32
6.9
/973/
66
/20/
64
/36/
3.7
/1083/

Poetical Refugee (2001)
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance
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64
24
6.9
/879/
73
/34/
63
/41/
3.5
/847/
46
/1/

Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
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64
21
6.3
/322/
65
/11/
65
/42/
3.3
/315/

The Order of Things (2017)
An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.
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69
20
7.5
/849/
72
/23/
64
/7/
3.4
/1146/

Road to Kabul (2012)
In Casablanca, Ali, Hmida, Mbarek and Messoud are four unemployed youths who spend their time dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands. One day, Hmida falls on a specialist of illegal immigration, Ouchen. The four friends manage to collect enough money only for the departure of one of them, Hmida. Several months later, it still has not given any sign of life. Ali, Mbarek and Messoud discovering that he is not in Holland but in Afghanistan, they decide to go looking for him on the road to Kabul.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
20
6.5
/862/
70
/23/
59
/51/
3.3
/297/
49
/5/

My Father's Guests (2010)
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-old.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
11
5.4
/2365/
24
/5/
87
/3/
3.0
/210/
100
/1/

Sawah (2019)
On his way to a DJ Championship in Brussels, a young Egyptian is mistaken for an illegal immigrant and detained in a country he's never heard of before.
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?
7.6
/31/

Broken Promise (2011)
Two Afghan illegal aliens take a walk at night. To the rhythm of their nocturnal stroll, we see how the Dutch reality, from bare mattresses in a condemned building, breakdancing in the street to running from the police, is at odds with their phone calls to relatives who stayed behind and have both concerns and high expectations. To reassure the home front, one Afghan takes a picture of himself in front of a nice house and expensive car.
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?
60
/2/
100
/1/

Tenemos una Voz! (2025)
Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these news.
poster
?
9.9
/18/
100
/1/

Ronnie California: The King of Artesia (2024)
Ronnie California, an Indian immigrant who operates an illegal gambling ring out of the back of his failing saree shop, must face the music when the community exposes his shady dealings.
poster
?
20
/1/

La Ballade des sans-papiers (1997)
N/A
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
9.5
/46/

Undocumented (2024)
A Mexican social activist fearing for his life seeks asylum in the U.S. He finds illegal work on a Vermont dairy farm alongside other undocumented workers. Here he learns that their ambiguous status leaves them vulnerable to the injustice, abuse and cruelty they were escaping from.
poster
?
6.9
/24/
60
/2/

Aurora (2015)
Six-year-old Aurora is abandoned in the mountains by human traffickers. She wanders until she finds a cabin in the woods.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
10
/1/
50
/4/

Sentenciado (1993)
A group of undocumented Mexican farm workers must fight against Neo-Nazis in the United States.
poster
?
10
/2/

Travelers (2023)
The diaspora of Filipinos around the globe is driven mostly by the economics of supply and demand. The yearning for something better, stability, and self-validation leads a handful of sojourners from the provinces of the Philippines into the arms of one of its former colonial masters — the USA. But what happens when they finally get what they want? And how? Filmmaker Dennis Empalmado explores the musings of Filipino expatriates and hopeful immigrants in "Naglalakbay" (Travelers).
poster
56
?
4.3
/160/
70
/2/

7 Welcome to London (2012)
Twenty five year old Jai (Asad Shan) leads an impoverished life in Delhi with his humble Punjabi family who he constantly struggles to support. He migrates to London on a three month tourist visa to fulfill his dream and earn a decent living as an illegal immigrant, leaving his family burdened with a loan. London is his most beautiful dream. Soon he finds a best friend Goldie (Aliakbar Campwala) on a council estate and find love on the London underground in the form of Simran (Sabeeka Imam) who is ShahRukh Khan s biggest fan. One phone call changes his life and he becomes trapped in a dark and dangerous situation leading to an edgy, exciting, fast paced thriller where each man is on his own and its a jungle law.
poster
?
7.3
/11/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Gabriela (2023)
It's the summer after high school graduation and Gabriela, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman, pursues her dream of swimming for an illustrious Country Club swim team. Despite her single-minded determination, Gabriela is continually confronted with her overprotective mother’s ears, limitations on her economic and legal status, and self-judgment. As she questions her self-worth against the structures of contemporary American Southern life, Gabriela embarks on a quest towards personal freedom and self-acceptance.
poster
?
20
/1/
50
/3/

Los apuros de un mojado (1999)
A freeloader who lives with his girlfriend in the US gets deported after a romantic rival tries to get him out of the way. His girlfriend goes to search for him in Mexico.
poster
?
6.7
/172/

Dirt (2003)
Dolores Del Rosario is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who works as a maid for wealthy New Yorkers. Treated patronizingly whenever she isn't simply ignored, she witnesses all her privileged employers' quirks and indiscretions, including affairs and other secrets. When she loses her highest-paying job because the family's political ambitions preclude employing an illegal immigrant, Dolores' neighbors, led by her best friend, Mona, come to her aid. (Cinetopia Film Festival)
poster
HBO Max
?
7.0
/19/
70
/1/
20
/1/

Unimundo 45 (2018)
When an anti-immigrant candidate wins the presidency, a jaded Latina news producer sheds her cynicism and reconnects with her suppressed activist side on live TV.
poster
Hoopla
?
7.1
/94/
30
/2/
63
/3/

Waiting for Barcelona (2018)
Waiting for Barcelona revolves around the struggles of undocumented immigrants collecting scrap metal and selling illegal replicas in Barcelona. The film centers on the idea of how the dream of the city is very similar to everyone, but in practice differs depending on your wealth and citizenship. Without the right documents for working our protagonists face serious difficulties and even end up on the verge of insanity.
poster
52
?
5.6
/116/
46
/8/
55
/2/

Amaraica (2020)
An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US government's 'Zero Tolerance' child separation policy at the US / Mexico border.
poster
63
?
6.4
/326/
63
/7/

Forbidden Passage (1941)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
poster
?
7.2
/36/
50
/2/
60
/1/

Juanita (2018)
An illegal Dominican immigrant and a lonely Spanish farmer start a love affair. Juanita and Mariano, who in Spain clung to each other like two castaways to a raft, will try not to drown in Santo Domingo this Christmas.
poster
?
60
/1/

Cranberry Nights (2020)
Behind her mother's back, 16-year old Juana sneaks out to a party to get closer to her crush, Robin. She never suspects that her best friend, Kelly, will risk Juana's life with a drunken slip of the tongue.
poster
?
4.0
/7/
25
/2/
45
/2/

Pink Thief (1982)
A group of young people are helped to illegally immigrate from China to Hong Kong by a local gang, but when they arrive they are immediately abused by the gang and paid little for the tasks they are given. Struggling to survive, the group turn to petty crime to make ends meet. When one of the group accidentally picks the pocket of a chief detective, he decides to use the group of desperate immigrants to help him infiltrate their gang.
poster
68
?
7.4
/221/
66
/3/
66
/5/

Farmingville (2004)
Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.
poster
?
5.9
/43/
60
/2/

London Babulu (2017)
While there is nothing wrong in aspiring for a better life abroad, the means are as equally important as the goal. Making use of forged certificates and lying to the authorities in the desperation for getting a visa will eventually result in nothing but trouble.


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