Illegal immigration movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant illegal immigration movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with illegal immigration, immigrant, immigration, illegal immigrant, life is a bitch, society, police officer, u.s. mexico border, cigarette smoking and refugee plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Mexico, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as illegal immigration: Mediterranea (2015), True North (2006), Dirty Pretty Things (2002), America (2005), Border Run (2012), Tiresia (2003), The Girl (2012), The War Boys (2009), Fast Food Nation (2006), Sin Nombre (2009).

List of illegal immigration movies

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 6.6
 2K
Mediterranea (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: illegal immigration, migration, interracial relations, job seeking, storytelling, family relations, promise, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, friendship, drunkenness, refugee ...
Place: italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
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 6.8
 1K
True North (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, touching
Plot: fisherman, ship, illegal immigration, moral dilemma, parents and children, smuggling, human nature, life is a bitch, stowaway, ocean, landscape, human trafficking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, grim, neo noir ...
Plot: immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, nigeria, england, britain, europe ...
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 5.6
 416
America (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: América is a Brazilian telenovela that was originally broadcast in 2005 by Rede Globo. The telenovela focused on the life of an illegal immigrant to the United States and the lives of those she left behind in Brazil. It stars Deborah Secco and ...
Style: novela, soap opera, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: immigration, illegal immigration, lolita, dream, illegal immigrant, changing lives, social problems, emigrant, countryside, aspiration, emigration, female protagonist ...
Place: mexico, brazil, miami, rio de janeiro
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 4.2
 2K
Border Run (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, uncover truth, investigation, danger, dishonesty, journalism, u.s. mexico border, siblings, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, arizona, mexico
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 6.2
 1K
Tiresia (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, prostitute, transsexuality, captivity, society, confined, obsession, hostage, gay, lgbt, illegal immigration, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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 6.2
 1K
The Girl (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
Style: realistic, touching, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: custody, mexican american border, smuggling, immigrant, parents and children, introspection, single parent, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, illegal immigration, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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 6.5
 2K
The War Boys (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three young vigilantes huddle on la linea ready to chase illegals back across the border into Mexico... but they soon learn that there are borderlines deep within each one of them that each of them has to cross.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay sex, border, illegal immigration, border crossing, black market, partner, crime gone awry, homosexual, gay relationship, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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Dias Police: Police from Another Country (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: About 150,000 illegal entrants live in Tokyo. They are not recognised as refugees and live in poor conditions. To protect themselves, the illegals create a secret organisation. The organisation has a bank which Japanese Financial Services Agency is ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: illegal immigration, secret organization, justice, police, refugee, illegal alien, life is a bitch, fight for justice, society, police officer
Place: japan
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an ...
Style: talky, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, bad ending ...
Plot: fast food restaurant, food, junk food, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, satire, public health, illegal immigration, greed, health, workplace ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, colorado, mexico
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 7.5
 34K
Sin Nombre (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style: road movie, serious, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gang, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, rape, street gang, social problems, family reunited, train, gang member, u.s. mexico border, hopes, illegal immigrant ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, central america, guatemala
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 7.2
 17K
Dheepan (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Style: political, disturbing, emotional, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, refugee, brutality, culture clash, character study, greed, gangster, illegal immigration, migration, social realism, gang war, migrant ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: sri lanka, france, paris france
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Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Ecuador, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style: realistic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, life is a bitch, illegal immigration, women, loneliness, drug abuse, depression, addiction ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, latin america, new jersey, usa ...
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 6.6
 148
Coyote (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two Americans find that smuggling illegal immigrants into the country is more lucrative than a regular job.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: best friend, deportation, heroes, immigrant, partner, dishonesty, misfit, illegal immigration, greed, desert, border patrol, engaged couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, arizona, latin america, tucson arizona
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The Melon Route (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, danger, escapades, immigrant, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
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 4.6
 4K
Conspiracy (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Gulf War veteran with PTSD (Kilmer) heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, war, politics, uncover truth, missing person, military life, retiring, soldier, army investigation, danger, spy, amputee ...
Place: iraq, arizona, mexico
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, border patrol, corrupt cop, police investigation, partners against crime, drug dealing, danger, confined, tough law enforcer, master criminal, police corruption, gunfight ...
Place: new mexico, new orleans, usa, latin america, mexico
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The Second Civil War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news ...
Style: dark comedy, cynical, biting, offbeat, futuristic ...
Plot: satire, american politics, journalism, politics, civil war, illegal immigration, journalist, government, translator, extramarital affair, gang violence, governor ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: idaho, washington d.c., middle east, usa, pakistan ...
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 5.5
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King of Ravens (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the middle of the urban jungle, Darko, a young and handsome undocumented immigrant meets Alina, a mysterious woman who leads a steady life in Germany. Despite social and cultural differences, they share an immediate erotic connection. They start ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: oral sex, cheating wife, illegal immigrant, forbidden love, illegal immigration, star crossed lovers, immigrant, undocumented immigrant, love triangle, fall in love, love interest, romantic triangle ...
Place: germany
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 5.4
 2K
Night Shift (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Hugo Boris, Night Shift focuses on three Parisian police officers charged with driving a stranger back to the border. However, Virginie (Efira) realizes their prisoner will most likely be killed upon return to his country and so ...
Style: crying
Plot: cheating wife, police, massage, immigrant, fear, airport, police station, police officer, interracial sex, illegal immigrant, illegal immigration, immigration officer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, france
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 3.2
 302
Border Blues (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Moskow police detective Andrei Somov resigns and emigrates from Russia, but has to accept a menial job in a restaurant while his adolescent son and pregnant daughter-in-law are denied exit visa's. 'Andy' does however get to know some ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: hugging, father son relationship, illegal immigrant, police, chief of police, illegal immigration, police detective, immigrant, smuggler, police officer, russian immigrant, immigration ...
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 9.0
 10K
Harga (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Italy
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Harga, a word that defines the illegal one-way journey by death boats, from Tunisia across the Mediterranean sea, to Europe the safe haven in the eyes of these illegal immigrants, who dream of a better life and a promising future, filled with hope ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, harsh
Plot: boat, life is a bitch, fight, struggle for survival, immigrant, life, immigration, illegal immigrant, hopes, illegal immigration
Place: tunisia
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The Little Nyonya (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the 1930s, the drama spans across several generations of a wealthy Straits-born Chinese family in Malacca, and revolves around the feuds surrounding it. Yue Niang, a strong-willed Nyonya refuses to be consigned to her lowborn status in life ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: immigrant, social problems, chinese immigrant, biracial, family life, cultural difference, racial issues, race issues, immigration, social relations, society, racial relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: malaysia
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No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, immigrant, survival horror, occult, supernatural, illegal immigrant, secret, human sacrifice, female protagonist, survival, struggle for survival, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s, 60s, year 1963
Place: cleveland ohio
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 7.2
 1K
The Wolves (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.
Style: controversial, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, immigration, grownups, illegal immigration, immigrant family, bigger dreams, motive, mother son relationship, secret, female protagonist, immigrant, stealing ...
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Bloody Border (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What do you get when you mix two hit-men brothers, their cocky protege, a couple of injured illegal immigrants, border patrol agents and a few colorful townsfolk in the small border town of Bisbee, AZ whose water supply has been contaminated with ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing
Plot: zombie, border patrol, contamination, hitman, immigrant, agent, brother brother relationship, illegal immigrant, illegal immigration, zombie attack, killer, patrol ...
Place: arizona
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 7.5
 316K
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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Fighting for Freedom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
Style: hispanic
Plot: farmer, illegal immigration, immigration, national security, politics, amnesty, american dream, border patrol, patriotism
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 7.7
 6K
The North (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 141 min.
Story: 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.
Style: political, depressing, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, immigration, magic realism, culture clash, indigenous people, chicano, working class, american dream, strike, border, racism, tragedy ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: los angeles, mexico, guatemala, latin america, usa ...
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 7.1
 26K
Frozen River (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: melancholic, emotional, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: poverty, single parent, native american reservation, winter, native american, working class, survival, christmas, snow, courage, parenthood, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, canada, new york state, usa, quebec
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