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, tense and captivating films and TV shows about / with mexican american border, u.s. mexico border, society, murder, immigrants, mexican border, mexican, gun, violence and chase plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Mexico, France and other countries.
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mexican american border movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as mexican american border: The Hollow Point (2016), The Golden Dream (2013), The Girl (2012), Desierto (2015), Sin Nombre (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007), Two Men in Town (2014), The Border (1982), Rambo: Last Blood (2019), Julia (2008).

List of mexican american border movies

The Hollow Point (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: mexican american border, small town sheriff, investigation, sheriff, gunrunner, woman in danger, old love, attempted murder, one against many, gunfight, undercover, hitman ...
Place: arizona, southern usa
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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, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mexican american border, u.s. mexico border, coming of age, friendship, follow your dream, on the road, hopes, leaving home, border crossing, slaughterhouse, communication problem, poverty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, guatemala, central america, latin america
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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, serious ...
Plot: custody, mexican american border, smuggling, immigrants, introspection, single parent, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, haunted by the past, illegal immigration, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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 6.1
 10K
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, touching, rough, bloody ...
Plot: desert, survival, truck, mexican, running for your life, human prey, mass murder, mexican border, mercilessness, psychopath, characters killed one by one, border crossing ...
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 7.5
 33K
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, hopes, juvenile delinquency, street gang, family reunited, train, immigrants, gang member, social problems, u.s. mexico border, gangsters, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, los angeles, new jersey, california ...
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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, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, 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, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: sheriff, starting over, haunted by the past, going straight, society, friendship, small town, redemption, parole, arrest, convict, mexican american border ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and ...
Style: thought provoking, emotional, realistic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, redemption, vengeance, desert, small town, revenge, justice, murder, promise, loss of friend, racial slur, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, mexico, california, austin texas, usa ...
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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, serious, rough, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: corruption, murder, cheerleading, u.s. mexico border, moral ambiguity, police, dark hero, hitman, police corruption, happy ending, character study, emigration ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: texas, mexico, latin america, california
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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, emotional, captivating, controversial ...
Audience: manly
Plot: violence, lone hero, vigilante, final battle, vengeance, post traumatic stress disorder, rambo, human trafficking, revenge, death, fight scenes, rescue ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, arizona, sonora, usa
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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, stylized, sexy, neo noir ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, suspense, kidnapping, insanity, twists and turns, loneliness, mental illness, ransom, character study, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, anger ...
Place: mexico, france, san diego california, europe, england ...
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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, dishonesty, law enforcement, police corruption, life is a bitch, society ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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 7.0
 2K
Skin Game (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Quincy Drew (Garner) and Jason O'Rourke (Gossett) travel from town to town in the south of the United States during the slavery era. Drew claims to be a down-on-his-luck slave owner who is selling O'Rourke as a slave. Quincy gets the ...
Style: funny, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: con artists, slavery, racism, interracial relations, rescue, mexican american border, disorder, righting the wronged, friends, mistaken identity, cons and scams, fish out of water ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: missouri, kansas, usa, texas, southern usa
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The Hunting Party (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Style: brutal, sexy, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, stockholm syndrome, hunter, gunfight, love, murder, revenge, infidelity, sexual abuse, criminal, journalism, violent ...
Time: 19th century, 70s
Place: texas
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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, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, woman in danger, rivalry, smuggler, chase, drugs, suspense, smuggling, mexican american border, graphic violence, drug traffic, gunfight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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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: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, murder, police corruption, investigation, confined, uncover truth, partners against crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, life is a bitch ...
Place: latin america, tijuana mexico, mexico, somalia
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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, futuristic, intellectual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: distopia, virtual reality, survival, dam, life is a bitch, cyberpunk, dishonesty, corporate crime, future dystopia, worker, destruction, remote control ...
Time: future
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
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A Man Called Django! (1971)
Genre: 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.
Plot: cowboy, clumsy, capture, execution, massacre, horse, husband wife relationship, secret, office, violence, woman killed, friend ...
Time: 1910s
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Good Day, Ramon (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, motivational ...
Plot: friendship, immigrants, hopes, society, fish out of water, mexican, beggar, unemployed, life is a bitch, migration, friends, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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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: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, train robbery, battles, soldier, warlord, mexican border, suicide, anti war, tough heroes, heroes, lone wolves ...
Time: 1910s
Place: texas, usa, latin america, mexico
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 6.0
 523
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!
Plot: satire, national guard, border crossing, absurdism, rebellion, mexican army, male female relationship, general, u.s. mexico border, sergeant, tour guide, mexican american border ...
Time: 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: immigrants, illegal immigrant, mexican, immigration, mexican immigrant, u.s. mexico border, illegal immigration, travel, mexican border, mexican american border
Place: america
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 5.5
 241
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: arizona desert, mexican, illegal immigrant, brother brother relationship, immigrants, mexican immigrant, u.s. mexico border, mexican border, immigration, illegal immigration, mexican american border, travel
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 8.0
 105
Mother Earth (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 62 min.
Story: TIERRA MADRE is based on the true story of Aidee Gonzalez, a woman determined to raise her children with her female partner in the Mexican border town of Tecate. Aidee works hard as an exotic dancer providing for her family. One day her girlfriend ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, family relations, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, society, gays and lesbians, friendship, friends, couples, gay parent, lesbian mother, husband wife relationship, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, tijuana mexico
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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, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, vengeance, life is a bitch, sex with a minor ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, latin america, california, south central los angeles ...
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 5.8
 1K
Geronimo (1962)
Genre: Action, Biography, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native american, jungle, injustice, heroes, rebellion, on the run, interracial relations, racism, tough heroes, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora, arizona
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The Virgin of Juarez (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a reporter travels to Juarez to cover the ongoing story of the mass murder of local working women, she uncovers the amazing story of "The Virgin Of Juarez," a survivor of an attack who has developed stigmata, a sign of holiness, and ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, talky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, woman in danger, investigation, psychopath, who done it, journalism, law enforcement, religions or cults, life is a bitch, immigrants, religion ...
Place: los angeles, usa, latin america, mexico, el paso texas
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 5.1
 122
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: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drugs, escape, farm, stoners, kids in trouble, disorder, criminal heroes, drug dealing, youth, society, rivalry ...
Time: 50s
Place: mexico, latin america, new mexico, canada
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 4.7
 347
Border Cop (1980)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between Mexico and the United States. Although it has a good standing with the poorest of Mexican towns near the border. Two are Leina and Benny, a couple ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious
Plot: migration, misfit, law enforcement, society, immigrants, life is a bitch, tough law enforcer, car chase, organized crime, desert, exploitation, corrupt cop ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, california
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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 crossing, illegal immigration, black market, crime gone awry, partners, homosexual, lgbtq, friends, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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