Mexican american border movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mexican american border movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film and captivating films and TV shows about / with mexican american border, u.s. mexico border, murder, mexican border, immigrant, violence, border, society, immigration and police officer plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Mexico, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mexican american border: The Hollow Point (2016), The Girl (2012), The Golden Dream (2013), Desierto (2015), No Country for Old Men (2007), Down and Dangerous (2013), The Border (1982), Julia (2008), Sin Nombre (2009), A Better Life (2011).

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The Hollow Point (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired lawman works with a new sheriff when a botched Mexican drug deal and a vicious hit man threaten their border town.
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: mexican american border, small town sheriff, sheriff, investigation, woman in danger, gunrunner, old love, attempted murder, one against many, gunfight, secret service, hitman ...
Time: year 2016
Place: arizona, southern usa
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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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The Golden Dream (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style: road movie, serious, touching, rough, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: immigrant, u.s. mexico border, on the road, coming of age, friendship, follow your dream, hopes, leaving home, border crossing, border, danger, slaughterhouse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 11K
Desierto (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, rough, touching, bloody ...
Plot: survival, truck, desert, mexican border, running for your life, human prey, mass murder, characters killed one by one, mercilessness, psychopath, border crossing, u.s. mexico border ...
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
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Down and Dangerous (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, rescue, danger, woman in danger, rivalry, smuggler, chase, smuggling, mexican american border, violent content, conundrum, henchman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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 6.4
 7K
The Border (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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.
Style: talky, neo noir, serious, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: border, corruption, murder, u.s. mexico border, immigrant, moral ambiguity, police, character study, police corruption, happy ending, emigration, kidnapping ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, mexico, latin america, california, el paso texas
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 7.0
 7K
Julia (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, insanity, ransom, loneliness, mental illness, character study, life is a bitch, twists and turns, alcoholic, alcoholism, crime gone awry, pursuit ...
Time: year 2008
Place: mexico, france, san diego california, england, europe ...
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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
A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
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Two Men in Town (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: sheriff, haunted by the past, starting over, going straight, small town, friendship, society, redemption, parole, convict, arrest, mexican american border ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
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 6.9
 2K
Backyard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned ...
Style: serious, rough, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, woman in danger, fighting crime, incompetent police, injustice, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, police corruption, u.s. mexico border ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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 5.8
 2K
I Witness (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, police corruption, partners against crime, investigation, uncover truth, confined, law enforcement, fighting crime, state affairs, danger, dishonesty ...
Place: latin america, tijuana mexico, mexico, somalia
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Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his housekeeper’s daughter is kidnapped, Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to bring her home but finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels.
Style: serious, tense, action adventure, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vigilante, violence, lone hero, final battle, vengeance, blood, human trafficking, one man army, prostitution, revenge, death, rambo ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: arizona, mexico, sonora, usa
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 6.0
 7K
Sleep Dealer (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dam, cyberpunk, virtual reality, survival, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, dystopian future, corporate crime, distopia, destruction, worker ...
Time: future
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The entire cause of the problem evolves from the use of a deputy to translate. His command of Spanish is inadequate and he mistranslates what a witness tells the sheriff as to whether the real perpetrator of the crime is riding a mare (yegua) or a ...
Style: political, intercultural, historical drama
Plot: sheriff, texas ranger, language barrier, horseman, fugitive, multiple perspectives, folk hero, self defense, squad, trial, manhunt, latin american history ...
Time: year 1982, 1900s
Place: texas, mexico, san antonio texas
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 5.4
 1K
Coyote Lake (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Coyote Lake is a reservoir on the Rio Grande along a dangerous drug smuggling route that has become synonymous with cartel violence and mysterious disappearances. It is there, on the lake, that Teresa and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Ester, run ...
Style: dark, disturbing, bleak, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, brutality, serial killer, female assassin, nothing goes right, psychopath, murder mystery, moral dilemma, macabre, life philosophy, family secret, lake ...
Time: 2010s
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 5.5
 225
Charge! (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: bounty hunter, us military, army lieutenant, man on a mission, u.s. mexico border, shootout, gunned down, gunfight, muslim, machete, brawl, cowboy ...
Place: arizona, washington d.c.
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A Man Called Django! (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy
Plot: cowboy, clumsy, wild west, revenge seeker, ford mustang, automobile, dynamite explosion, arms deal, outlaw, buddy, bandit, mexican border ...
Time: 1910s
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 6.2
 457
Sugar Colt (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: woman with a gun, investigation, old west, last wish, uncover truth, amateur detective, vengeance, rivalry, horse, last will and testament, gunfight, outlaw gang ...
Time: 19th century
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Son of a Gunfighter (1965)
Genre: Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man stalks his mother's killers.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film
Plot: cowboy, parent child relationship, bondage, border, mexican american border, prison escape, business, father son relationship, strangulation, bullet wound, stagecoach, bare chested male ...
Place: sonora, mexico, arizona
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Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: mexican revolution, soldier, cowboy, train robbery, battles, cannon, border, rebel army, u.s. mexico border, suicide mission, mexican border, warlord ...
Time: 1910s
Place: usa, texas, latin america, sonora, mexico
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El jardín del Edén (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit ...
Plot: chicano, immigrant, tourist, illegal immigrant, photographer, american tourist, mexican american border, illegal immigration, mexican immigrant, mexican border, peasant, immigration ...
Place: tijuana mexico
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 5.9
 546
Viva Max! (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!
Style: independent film, slapstick comedy
Plot: satire, absurdism, national guard, border crossing, right wing, mexican stereotype, insurrection, male female relationship, u.s. mexico border, tour guide, incompetence, border guard ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: texas, san antonio texas
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Pepe & Santo vs. America (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pepe travels to America with Santo (The Patron Saint of Immigrants) in search of his grandmother's dying wish..."The Mexican Dream." Pepe hops across the border from Mexico to the United States.
Plot: immigrant, illegal immigrant, u.s. mexico border, mexican american border, mexican immigrant, travel, illegal immigration, immigration, mexican border
Place: america
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 5.4
 242
America 101 (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two brothers leave their home in Mexico in search of the 'American Dream', only to realize it was in front of them all the time. Angel is tired of living in his small Mexican town and has no interest in following in his father's ...
Plot: immigrant, brother brother relationship, illegal immigrant, arizona desert, illegal immigration, mexican immigrant, u.s. mexico border, mexican border, mexican american border, travel, immigration
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, ghetto, vengeance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, latin america, usa, california, south central los angeles ...
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 5.0
 143
Wild Youth (1960)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drug, escape, stoner, gangster, farm, kids in trouble, disorder, mischievous children, society, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1960, 50s
Place: new mexico, mexico, canada, latin america
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Borderline Cult (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Three serial killers team up at the US/Mexican border town of Juarez and go on a killing spree.
Style: serious, scary, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, gory, danger, law enforcement, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, tough heroes, brutality, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
Is relevant ?
 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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