Illegal alien movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant illegal alien movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, captivating, touching, serious and semi serious films and TV shows about / with illegal alien, illegal immigrant, society, immigrants, family relations, suspense, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, deportation and immigration plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as illegal alien: Crossing Over (2009), Illegal (2010), The Other Side of Hope (2017), That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010), A Season in France (2017), The Proposal (2009), Dreams I Never Had (2017), Capernaum (2018), Kidz in da Hood (2006), Looking for Lola (1997).
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, intense, touching ...
Plot:
immigrants, culture clash, extramarital affair, illegal alien, illegal immigrant, deportation, jewish, society, social differences, female nudity, fighting the system, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, canada, tijuana mexico, san diego california ...
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927
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
Style:
captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, political ...
Plot:
rebellion, human spirit, fighting the system, social differences, injustice, hopes, life is a bitch, immigrants, family relations, parents and children, society, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Style:
captivating, serious, humorous, realistic, political ...
Plot:
racism, refugee, loss of family, illegal alien, syrian refugee, unemployment, life is a bitch, restaurant, empathy, mission, chaos, humour ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, tense, dark
Plot:
accidental incest, father daughter relationship, father daughter reunion, search for father, illegal immigrant, police corruption, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, illegal alien, family relations, parents and children, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Plot:
illegal alien, interracial couple, illegal immigrant, eviction, single father, dead mother, migrant, goldfish, funeral, french teacher, missing mother, interracial relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
africa, paris france
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336K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style:
feel good, romantic, light, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, love story, happy ending, love and romance, relationships, wedding, initially antagonists, couples, opposites attract, unlikely couple, pretend relationship, proposal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, new york, canada, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Plot:
teenage girl, held captive, wealthy family, illegal alien, domestic violence, teen romance, escape plan, couple relations, slave, teenage love, love story, male female relationship ...
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93K
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
social, sad, thought provoking, rough, cynical ...
Plot:
poverty, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, refugee, neglected child, child protagonist, child labor, low lives, life is a bitch, child neglect ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
immigrants, deportation, society, youth, family relations, illegal alien, rock musician, slacker, little girl, hopes, young heroes, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Looking for Lola is a comical look at the world of relationships and highlights just how far we will go to impress that special someone... Mike (Mark Kassen) has moved to L.A. with dreams of being a writer. In order to keep his parents satisfied, he ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Plot:
dancing, nightclub, comedy of errors, young lovers, follow your dream, showbiz, dancer's life, lie, illegal alien, fall in love, true love, twentysomething life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, thrilling
Plot:
organized crime, violence, female doctor, illegal alien, true crime, cleaning lady, witnessing a crime, female protagonist, criminal underworld, witness, outlaw gang, suspense ...
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, family relations, breaking point, undocumented immigrant, immigrants, golden years, misfit, elderly, society, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
desert, survival, immigrants, border crossing, stranded in the desert, struggle for survival, suspense, illegal immigrant, social problems, illegal alien, unlikely friendships, smuggling ...
Place:
africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of ...
Style:
tense, factual
Plot:
desperation, cross cultural relations, interracial love, criminal, breaking the law, framed for a crime, suspense, male female relationship, accusation, suspect, female doctor, problem ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
captivating, futuristic
Plot:
ufo, desert, alien, mysterious stranger, ufo sighting, alien contact, camp, illegal alien, border crossing, border, drug smuggler, drug smuggling
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1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
What happens when you return from a family holiday to France and open the boot to find a Syrian refugee where your luggage was supposed to be? That’s the situation facing new couple Peter and Katy when they get back to Dorking from their first ...
Style:
emotional, sitcom
Plot:
mother and son, refugee, illegal alien, culture clash, syrian, house, car, illegal immigrant
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot:
friendship, aging, elderly, midlife crisis, career change, anxiety, depression, nervous breakdown, musician, illegal alien, bittersweet, retiring ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
Plot:
woman strangled to death, illegal alien, misogynist, female nudity, erotica, serial killer, dead woman, immigrants, mexican, death, murder, immigration officer ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
All young Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy watching a soccer game together. When this simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law, the boy must now embark on a thrilling adventure to reunite with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
anarchist, father son relationship, introspection, moral dilemma, parents and children, teenage life, society, fighting the system, jail, soccer match, terrorism, black boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, germany, africa, belgium, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political ...
Plot:
heist, unemployment, disorder, cons and scams, gang, dishonesty, goofy hero, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, love, theft ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ma Seok-do works as a detective squad chief. His team struggles to bust a criminal ring who originally came from Yanbian, China and led by Jang Chen.
Style:
tense, brutal, harsh, intense, interesting
Plot:
organized crime, police, brutality, street gang, cruelty, suspense, strong violent content, tough law enforcer, police investigation, crime boss, gangsters, tough cop ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
seoul, south korea
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114K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style:
melancholic, semi serious, satirical, exciting, mind bending ...
Plot:
shrinking, experiment, ecology, neighbor, doctors, scientist, downsizing, divorce, laboratory, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
istanbul turkey, new mexico, norway
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59
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Boy ('the helper') tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an illegal Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his ...
Style:
tense, sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay subtext, gay youth, alcohol abuse, photographer, gay lead character, depression, gay club, gay asian, gay friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
netherlands
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he’s placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His ...
Plot:
bad father, jazz, fleeing, dream, informant, swamp, illegal immigrant, male female relationship, car theft, father daughter relationship, love, female nudity ...
Place:
copenhagen, denmark, spain, germany
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125
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story:
Adham travels to Ukraine with a group of illegal immigrants to seek employment and escape the conflicts that had torn his family apart for more than twenty years.
Plot:
marriage, husband wife relationship, wealth, poverty, sibling, drug dealer, illegal alien, immigration, homelessness, absent father, rich
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Medy, a make-up artist, was given the chance of a lifetime to accompany a concert star to the United States for a performance. She promised her family that she will return after a week.
Style:
unusual plot structure, light, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
employer employee relationship, gambler, american dream, immigration, housekeeper, mother, overseas worker, getting home, family problems, relationships, money problems, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
usa, the philippines
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
transvestism, friends, social differences, nightlife, fall in love, celebrity culture, city life, down on your luck, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, showbiz, hollywood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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578K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
alien, government agency, secret agents, partners, ufo, space and aliens, superhero, invasion, alien encounter, undercover, save the world, creature ...
Time:
jurassic, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, plymouth, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrants, deportation, mistaken identity, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, biting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
human trafficking, illegal immigration, border patrol, manhunt, immigrants, murder, border crossing, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, fugitives, gang, drug dealing ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
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