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1. Crash (I) (2004)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave
Votes: 449,740 | Gross: $54.58M
2. Downsizing (2017)
R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig
Votes: 125,245 | Gross: $24.45M
3. The Transporter (2002)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Frank Martin, who "transports" packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.
Directors: Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen | Stars: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, François Berléand
Votes: 321,994 | Gross: $25.30M
4. Io Capitano (2023)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo, Hichem Yacoubi
Votes: 10,790
5. The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.
Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford
Votes: 46,878 | Gross: $17.45M
6. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 172,589 | Gross: $130.44M
7. The Kite Runner (2007)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub
Votes: 82,636 | Gross: $15.80M
8. Premium Rush (2012)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Sean Kennedy
Votes: 118,651 | Gross: $20.28M
9. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Unrated | 123 min | Drama
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Votes: 1,778
10. Sin Nombre (2009)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado
Votes: 34,084 | Gross: $2.53M
11. Out in the Dark (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khoury, Alon Pdut
Votes: 9,265
12. Frozen River (2008)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
Director: Courtney Hunt | Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe
Votes: 26,486 | Gross: $2.51M
13. Collision (2009)
TV-PG | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives.
Stars: Douglas Henshall, Dean Lennox Kelly, Lucy Griffiths, Phil Davis
Votes: 2,559
14. Barbara (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Votes: 16,039
15. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 591
16. Cartel Land (2015)
R | 100 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Tim Foley, José Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles, Paco Valencia, Chaneque
Votes: 18,839 | Gross: $0.70M
17. The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Tuomari Nurmio
Votes: 13,701 | Gross: $0.18M
18. Bordertown (2007)
R | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Irineo Alvarez
Votes: 11,434
19. Trade (I) (2007)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Adriana, 13, is kidnapped in Mexico City by Russian sex traffickers. Her criminal 17 y.o. brother starts looking for her. Across the border in Texas, he gets help from a cop.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: Kevin Kline, Kathleen Gati, Paulina Gaitan, Cesar Ramos
Votes: 17,946 | Gross: $0.21M
20. The Breaking Point (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 4,448
21. The Border (1982)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates
Votes: 7,110 | Gross: $6.12M
22. Under the Same Moon (2007)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama
After his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.
Director: Patricia Riggen | Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo, Adrian Alonso, Maya Zapata
Votes: 7,474 | Gross: $12.59M
23. Mafioso (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Votes: 2,976 | Gross: $0.40M
24. Judith (1966)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, War
A beautiful woman who survived a concentration camp goes to Israel in 1948 to track down her Nazi husband who had betrayed her.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins, Hans Verner
Votes: 461
25. El Coyote (2019)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime
The Italian mob descends on the Mexican border to take on the most powerful cartel in America. Spencer, an ex-mobster in witness protection, battles the cartel who captured his son in Arizona, with his mob buddies coming to help.
Directors: Jeffrey Nicholson, Michael Saquella | Stars: Michael Saquella, Robert Costanzo, John Capodice, Kristin Dattilo
Votes: 164 | Gross: $0.95M
26. The War Boys (2009)
Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Ron Daniels | Stars: Victor Rasuk, Brian J. Smith, Benjamin Walker, Peter Gallagher
Votes: 1,908
27. Border Cop (1980)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
US Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Telly Savalas, Danny De La Paz, Eddie Albert, Michael V. Gazzo
Votes: 376
28. Lost Souls (1980)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Hung Yen, Feng Chi, Ming Chen, Shen Chan
Votes: 434
29. The Girl (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
Director: David Riker | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rivas, Austin West, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 1,386
30. Yaban (2022)
82 min | Drama
An expatriate in Turkey, Claire pays the services of a smuggler to flee the country with her only daughter, whose custody she has just lost. But he abandons them in a dilapidated house in the middle of the forest.
Director: Tareq Daoud | Stars: Amira Casar, Khava Israpilova, Doganay Ünal, Haydar Sisman
Votes: 42
31. Freight (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Russian gang in the UK traffic Eastern Europeans then enslave them, the women to sex, the men to illegal fights. They cross a local businessman and a war escalates.
Director: Stuart St Paul | Stars: Billy Murray, Craig Fairbrass, Danny Midwinter, Sam Kennard
Votes: 837
32. Tae-poong (2005)
R | 124 min | Action
A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.
Director: Kyung-taek Kwak | Stars: Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Mi-yeon, David Lee McInnis
Votes: 1,393 | Gross: $0.14M
33. Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
Director: Albert Zugsmith | Stars: Vincent Price, Linda Lin Di Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Votes: 784
34. Blood of My Blood (2007)
TV-MA | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Director: Christopher Zalla | Stars: Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández, Jorge Adrián Espíndola, Paola Mendoza
Votes: 1,196 | Gross: $0.05M
35. I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 778
36. Forbidden Passage (1941)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama
This short film portrays the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to capture a ring of smugglers who prey on desperate immigrants waiting entry by convincing them they have influence with the Immigration Service if they just pay a fee.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Addison Richards, Wolfgang Zilzer, Hugh Beaumont, George Lessey
Votes: 310
37. Final Stop (2016)
22 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A last stop for gas before entering America's desert wasteland turns a family dream vacation into a small town nightmare for a teenage girl and her parents as they all become victims of a human trafficking ring.
Director: Bobby Bosko Grubic | Stars: Jenny Robinson, Keira McCarthy, Miraj Grbic, Enrique Almeida
Votes: 27
38. Sword in the Desert (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler
Votes: 320
39. Heaven Is Waiting (2010)
PG | 15 min | Short, Drama
After being smuggled into Israel for a suicide bombing, a Palestinian girl must convince her handler that, although she is a woman she is prepared to do it. Once on the team, strapped with a bomb, she realizes she might not be ready to die.
Director: Shlomi Ben-Yair | Stars: Arturo Castro, Rachel Claire, Noam Harary, Claudio Laniado
Votes: 17
40. Wetbacks (1956)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hard on his luck, a fishing charter boat captain unwisely gets involved with a crime ring smuggling illegal Mexicans into California.
Director: Hank McCune | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates, Barton MacLane, John Hoyt
Votes: 108
41. True North (II) (2006)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Director: Steve Hudson | Stars: Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis, Steven Robertson
Votes: 1,122
42. Before Snowfall (2013)
96 min | Drama
A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.
Director: Hisham Zaman | Stars: Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Ozen, Ava Abdulsattar
Votes: 599
43. Human Cargo (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bonnie Brewster and Packy Campbell are rival reporters who board a ship in Vancouver to go after a smuggling ring which brings in illegal aliens.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 208
44. Yellow Cargo (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Jack La Rue
Votes: 123
45. Daughter of the Tong (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Thriller
A detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring.
Director: Raymond K. Johnson | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers, Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien
Votes: 221
46. The High Frontier (2016)
98 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male-bonding adventure. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the cabin, their outing turns into a struggle for survival.
Director: Wojciech Kasperski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Grabowski, Bartosz Bielenia
Votes: 1,000
47. Criminals of the Air (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rosalind Keith, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet
Votes: 94
48. King of the Coral Sea (1954)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Crime
A human smuggling racket off the Australian coast prompts the authorities to request a pearl diver's help in the investigation.
Director: Lee Robinson | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Ilma Adey, Rod Taylor
Votes: 94
49. Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary, Crime
With 27 million victims worldwide, Stopping Traffic starts the conversation on a taboo topic through the eyes of survivors, activists, and front-line rescue teams to launch a movement to end modern-day slavery in the U.S. and abroad.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Susanne Dietzel, Carolina Douthit, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, Mario Garfias
Votes: 138
50. Tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib (1998)
R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
After spending a couple of years behind bars, Lando wins back his freedom. But his prison record has incapacitated him from landing a job. Fortunately, a friend of his knows someone who ... See full summary »
Director: Joey Del Rosario | Stars: Robin Padilla, Maricel Soriano, Ricardo Cepeda, Dick Israel
Votes: 58