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1) Clemente
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Un hombre cruza el Rio Grande con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida en AmeaI?rica. Cuando una inesperada redada lo separa de su familia, Clemente es forzado a abrirse camino de regreso. Su traumaaI?tico viaje ilustra les motivaciones y peligros de muchas personas que enfrentan valerosamente esta desafiante odisea.
A man crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of starting a new life in America. When an unexpected raid separates him from his family, Clemente...
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A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
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Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
5) Deadfall
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Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
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David is a pot dealer in need of a fake family to use as a cover story in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. He is in major debt with his supplier and is desperate for the money to pay him back. He hires a stripper to be his fake wife, a runaway as his pretend daughter, and a goofy counterfeit son. Antics and madcap adventure ensue as this faux-family attempts to cross the border with the loot.
7) Sin nombre
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Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
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From dusk till dawn: The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers and truckers who've wandered off the beaten path. Everything seems...
9) Miss Bala
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Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Contains French descriptive video.
10) Go for sisters
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Bernice and Fontayne grew so close people said they could 'go for sisters, ' but time sent them down different paths. 20 years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer. When Bernice's son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice realizes she needs someone to navigate Rodney's world withoutinvolving the police,...
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Bordertown: "In 1880, Pemmican lay at the western edge of the Great Plains. Nearly a decade later, surveyors of the 49th parallel reached the small community to find it straddling the new Canadian-U.S. border. Now known as Bordertown, local law enforcement is dealt with on one side by Clive Bennett, a Mounti, and on the other by U.S. Marshal Jack Craddock. Whiskey traders, buffalo hunters, gold prospectors, silver miners, drifters and drunks keep...
12) 6 family movies
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Legend of the Ruby Silver: A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. When the mine doesn't produce as expected, dangers become more and more real.
Walking thunder: The coming-of-age saga of young Jacob McKay, who becomes stranded with his family in the Rocky Mountains, where they are befriended by human and animal inhabitants.
Long road home: Being left with nowhere else to go Seth moves to his grandparents farm in Utah. Seth grows...
13) Bordertown
14) Linewatch
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A Border Patrol Office in the New Mexico desert has a secret past that is about to catch up with him. When his old gang leader tracks him down and forces him to smuggle drugs across the border, he must choose between the life he swore to leave behind and saving his family at any cost.
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Cuando su pueblo natal de Sabinas Hidalgo ya no puede proveer mas que frijoles y torillas, Macario, un campesino mexicano sueña con cruzar la frontera en búsqueda de trabajo y una vida mas digna para su esposa. Nisiquiera la intervención divina podrá salvar a Macario de su destino, como lo indica el titulo de la película.
A Mexican peasant finds himself drawn uncontrollably to thoughts of crossing the border to find work and a more dignified...
16) Paraiso travel
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This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
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Tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as "the corridor of death" and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration. As the real-life drama unfolds we see this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, become a living and breathing human being with an important life story.
18) El norte
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Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte, the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. -- Container.
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Ivan's mother takes a job as a servant for the Lomeli Curiel family. One of the Curiels' daughters seduces Ivan and becomes pregnant, and the daughter's mother sends men out to beat him. During the brawl, one of the men is killed and Ivan is wrongfully accused of the crime. Having nothing to lose, Ivan crosses the border illegally into the U.S. where he meets an older businessman who adopts him and pays for his education. After eleven years, he returns...
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Western hero, television and film icon. Idolized role model. The cowboy who did right. Hopalong Cassidy, who rode into the hearts of millions as the good-guy of the West, is a shining piece of American history. William Boyd stars as the cowboy in black, with his trusty stallon Topper, in 35 classic, original Western films.