Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.

Hold Back the Dawn

1941

English

7.3

♡ 8

100%

Mitchell Leisen Director

Edward Fielding as American Consul

Paulette Goddard as Anita Dixon

Rosemary DeCamp as Berta Kurz

Nestor Paiva as Fred Flores

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Begum Jaan

2017

Hindi

5.6

♡ 8

8%

india pakistan border

period drama

prostitution

Srijit Mukherji Director

Vidya Balan as Begum Jaan

Rajit Kapoor as Ilias

Naseeruddin Shah as Rajaji

Rajesh Sharma as Shyam

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan.

Birders

2019

English

6.4

♡ 2

environmental conservation

nature

short film

Otilia Portillo Padua Director

Zinthia López as Biologist

John Kaye as Count Master & Hawk Watch

Brian Miller as Meteorologist

Richard Moore as Wildlife Photographer

Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful species.

Undocumented

2010

English

5.8

♡ 4

57%

undocumented immigrant

Chris Peckover Director

Jsu Garcia as El Torro

Alona Tal as Liz

Casey Adams as Student #2

Peter Stormare as Z

A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.

Close Quarters

2020

Spanish

5.8

♡ 7

Andres Clariond Director

Fernando Becerril as Jefe

Paulina Gaitan as Lupe / wife

José Pescina as Manuel / husband

Verónica Langer as Susana

Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.

Heavy Trip

2018

Finnish

7.0

♡ 41

94%

Juuso Laatio Director

Rune Temte as Frank Massegrav

Pertti Sveholm as Kunnanjohtaja

Anssi Niemi as Rankinen

Joel Hirvonen as Rankinen

Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.

200 Meters

2020

Arabic

7.2

♡ 13

90%

illegal border crossing

palestine

zealous

Ameen Nayfeh Director

Anna Unterberger as Anne

Doraid Liddawi as Avi

Ali Suliman as Mustafa

Lana Zreik as Salwa

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

Trade

2007

English

7.3

♡ 6

33%

Marco Kreuzpaintner Director

Anna Maria Horsford as Detective Martinez

Kate del Castillo as Laura

Linda Emond as Patty Sheridan

Kevin Kline as Ray Sheridan

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

Tears of the Sun

2003

English

6.6

♡ 98

34%

Antoine Fuqua Director

Tom Skerritt as Captain Bill Rhodes

Monica Bellucci as Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks

Cole Hauser as James 'Red' Atkins

Bruce Willis as Lieutenant A.K. Waters

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.

The Fourth War

1990

English

5.5

♡ 8

64%

John Frankenheimer Director

David Palffy as Gawky Soldier

Harry Dean Stanton as Gen. Hackworth

William MacDonald as MP Corporal

Dale Dye as Sergeant Major

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.

Sauna

2008

Finnish

6.2

♡ 11

52%

Antti-Jussi Annila Director

Ville Virtanen as Eerik

Elena Leeve as Isännän tyttären ääni

Olavi Kari as Kaatamolainen talonpoika

Rain Tolk as Rogosin

It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.

Joint Security Area

2000

Korean

7.7

♡ 36

88%

Chan-wook Park Director

Ahmedov Ayder as

Christoph Hofrichter as Maj. Gen. Bruno Botta

Byung-hun Lee as Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok

Kang-ho Song as Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

Separated

2024

English

6.5

♡ 1

97%

Errol Morris Director

Jonathan White as Self

Gabriela Cartol as Self

Lee Gelernt as Self

Allan Bualoy as Self

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together they show that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop, audiences can begin to absorb the U.S. government’s role in developing and implementing policies that have kept over 1300 children without confirmed reunifications years later, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

No Bears

2022

Persian

7.2

♡ 13

99%

Jafar Panahi Director

Mina Khosrovani as

Jafar Panahi as Jafar Panahi

Ehsan Ahmad Khanpour as Kid

Sinan Yusufoglu as Sinan

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Borderless Fog

2024

Indonesian

5.2

♡ 7

Edwin Director

Paula Rontoi as Arum

Lukman Sardi as Panca

Putri Marino as Sanja

Yusuf Mahardika as Silas

A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.

I Carry You with Me

2020

Spanish

6.7

♡ 11

97%

Heidi Ewing Director

Luis Alberti as Cucusa

Enrique Arreola as Iván's Boss

Arcelia Ramírez as Magda

Michelle Rodríguez as Sandra

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

To Kill the Beast

2021

Spanish

5.0

♡ 4

100%

Agustina San Martín Director

Ana Brun as Aunt Inés

Ignacio Benítez as Extra

Sabrina Grinschpun as Helena

João Miguel as Lautaro

Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.

Touch of Evil

1958

English

7.9

♡ 51

96%

Orson Welles Director

Keenan Wynn as Bartender

Joseph Cotten as Coroner

Joanna Moore as Marcia Linnekar

Valentin de Vargas as Pancho

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

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