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Tag: illegal immigration

  • The Terminal

    An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    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 exhumes Estrada’s corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

  • Fast Food Nation

    A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America’s love affair with fast food.

  • Babel

    Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

  • It’s a Free World…

    Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

  • Frozen River

    After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

  • The Shepherd: Border Patrol

    A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.

  • The Visitor

    A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

  • Welcome

    Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can’t swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won’t be as easy as he imagined… The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais

  • Sin Nombre

    Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra’s life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.