Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "illegal-alien"

1. The Proposal (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

Director: Anne Fletcher | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson

Votes: 360,364 | Gross: $163.96M

2. 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: 449,039 | Gross: $54.58M

3. The Hunt (II) (2020)

R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.

Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall

Votes: 128,836 | Gross: $5.81M

4. Capernaum (2018)

R | 126 min | Drama

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad

Votes: 105,413 | Gross: $1.66M

5. 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: 124,539 | Gross: $24.45M

6. Exodus (1960)

Approved | 208 min | Action, Drama, War

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford

Votes: 11,389 | Gross: $18.97M

7. The Immigrant (2013)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 33,791 | Gross: $2.01M

8. Crossing Over (2009)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama

Crossing Over is about illegal aliens of many nationalities in the Los Angeles area and the authorities and individuals dealing with them.

Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Jim Sturgess

Votes: 24,533 | Gross: $0.45M

9. The Astronaut Farmer (2006)

PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A NASA astronaut, forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.

Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Max Thieriot

Votes: 23,282 | Gross: $11.00M

10. 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: 13,648 | Gross: $0.18M

11. Jimmy's Hall (2014)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby

Votes: 6,955 | Gross: $0.56M

12. Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

R | 101 min | Drama

Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle, Mauricio Venegas

Votes: 3,820 | Gross: $0.15M

13. No News from God (2001)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Jero García, Gerardo Giacinti

Votes: 5,718 | Gross: $0.08M

14. Lost Paradise (2012)

93 min | Drama

Lucie lives with her father Hugo. Her mother has been gone for a year and the abscence brought father and daughter even closer. However, when the mother returns, Hugo's taken by ... See full summary »

Director: Ève Deboise | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Olivier Rabourdin, Florence Thomassin, Ouassini Embarek

Votes: 244

15. My Man Godfrey (1957)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

The spoiled daughter of a rich American family hires as butler an Austrian vagrant she finds on a pier, without knowing that he illegally jumped ship.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis, Robert Keith

Votes: 1,123

16. Mala Noche (1986)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama

A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really... See full summary »

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Nyla McCarthy

Votes: 4,329

17. Home (2019–2020)

27 min | Comedy, Drama

Peter, his new partner Katy, and her son John return home to Dorking from their first holiday together in France. Hiding in the boot of their car is Sami, a Syrian refugee.

Stars: Rufus Jones, Rebekah Staton, Youssef Kerkour, Oaklee Pendergast

Votes: 1,134

18. That Girl in Yellow Boots (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British woman faces challenges while attempting to locate her father in India.

Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kalki Koechlin, Prashant Prakash, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulshan Devaiah

Votes: 4,089

19. Silver City (2004)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Maria Bello, Billy Zane

Votes: 4,226 | Gross: $1.02M

20. Icon of French Cinema (2023– )

Comedy, Drama

Judith, a former successful French actress, comes back to Paris to resume her career after a few years break in LA. Meanwhile, she sees her teenage daughter engaging in a relationship with an older man, just as it happened when she was 14.

Stars: Judith Godrèche, Tess Barthélémy, Liz Kingsman, Gina Cailin

Votes: 106

21. Ladrón que roba a ladrón (2007)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two former thieves reunite to rob the biggest thief they know -- Moctesuma Valdez, a TV infomercial guru who's made millions selling worthless health products to poor Latino immigrants. When none of their affiliates want to go undercover as day laborers to pull off the heist, the two men turn to the real thing for help.

Director: Joe Menendez | Stars: Fernando Colunga, Miguel Varoni, Julie Gonzalo, Saúl Lisazo

Votes: 1,982 | Gross: $4.00M

22. A Lady Without Passport (1950)

Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

During the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in love with a smuggled woman.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready

Votes: 917

23. Operation Eichmann (1961)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, History

With the defeat of Germany that ends World War II in Europe, the Allies discover the true horror of more than six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis - and the fact that one of the ... See full summary »

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Werner Klemperer, Ruta Lee, Donald Buka, Luis Van Rooten

Votes: 314

24. Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004 TV Special)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Comedy

Are you ready for Rock? Actor/director/comedian Chris Rock performs a gut-busting set in his fourth HBO stand-up special taped before a live audience at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Director: Joel Gallen | Stars: Chris Rock, Dionicio Chambers, Doug E. Fresh, Eric Edwards

Votes: 5,693

25. Margarita (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Behind the facade of a beautiful urban home, a combination of complacency and bad investments has left power couple Ben and Gail disconnected, resentful and just about broke. When the ... See full summary »

Directors: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert | Stars: Nicola Correia-Damude, Patrick McKenna, Claire Lautier, Christine Horne

Votes: 460

26. A Season in France (2017)

100 min | Drama

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys, Ibrahim Burama Darboe

Votes: 599

27. Final Sale (2011)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman undergoes an illegal organ transplant only to discover that the young girl who donated the kidney died during the operation. Determined to stop this heinous activity, but torn by ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew C. Erin | Stars: Laura Harris, Ivan Sergei, Kaitlin Doubleday, Jonathan LaPaglia

Votes: 303

28. Illégal (2010)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A single mother of a thirteen-year-old boy from Belarus seeks refuge in Belgium with dreams of a better life, but instead, she will be incarcerated and separated from her son, risking deportation.

Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse | Stars: Anne Coesens, Alexandre Gontcharov, Milo Masset-Depasse, Natalia Belokonskaya

Votes: 943 | Gross: $0.00M

29. For the Love of Mary (1948)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn

Votes: 417

30. Morgen (2010)

100 min | Drama

A low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration.

Director: Marian Crisan | Stars: András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalçin, Elvira Rimbu, Dorin C. Zachei

Votes: 1,170

31. A Mother's Story (2011)

100 min | Drama

Makeup artist Medy (Pokwang) was given the chance of a lifetime to accompany a concert star to the United States for a performance. She promised her family that she would return after a ... See full summary »

Director: John-D Lazatin | Stars: Pokwang, Nonie Buencamino, Rayver Cruz, Xyriel Manabat

Votes: 50

32. In the Courtyard (2014)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building.

Director: Pierre Salvadori | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kervern, Féodor Atkine, Pio Marmaï

Votes: 1,449

33. The Aliens (2017)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A UFO believer must choose between the aliens above he has never seen or the mysterious guide who appears in his campsite week after week.

Director: Byron Yee | Stars: Byron Yee, Stephanie Arcila, Mauricio Zatarain, Anne Marie Scheffler

Votes: 85

34. Förortsungar (2006)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Kidz in da Hood is the gripping and warm story of Amina, who came to Sweden with her grandfather three years ago. Amina has not yet received her residency permit and when her grandfather ... See full summary »

Directors: Catti Edfeldt, Ylva Gustavsson | Stars: Beylula Kidane Adgoy, Gustaf Skarsgård, Embla Hjulström, Jennifer Brown

Votes: 965

35. Smugglers' Cove (1948)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

The Bowery Boys run into a smuggling operation when Slip checks out a manor he mistakenly believes he's inherited

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 348

36. Boy (2012)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama

"Boy" tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an undocumented Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being... See full summary »

Director: Tami Ravid | Stars: Gerald Gonzales, Bart Klever, Arvin Quirante, René van Zinnicq Bergman

Votes: 59

37. Silent Cargo (2011)

16 min | Short, Thriller

12 Illegal immigrants are smuggled across the ocean in a shipping container. Trapped in the container 3 weeks longer than expected, most have died leaving only 4 survivors with diminishing ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Azimov | Stars: Ellen Wong, Saad Siddiqui, Ronica Sajnani, Supinder Wraich

Votes: 41

38. My Father's Guests (2010)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy

Lucien Paumelle has been a human-rights activist for decades and his relatives are not astonished when he announces that he is determined to help illegal immigrants by giving them shelter ... See full summary »

Director: Anne Le Ny | Stars: Karin Viard, Flore Babled, Michel Aumont, Fabrice Luchini

Votes: 845

39. In the Shadows (2013)

48 min | Documentary

This documentary by Dan Glynn follows the personal story of Jairo, a hard-working Mexican who immigrates to the US in order to find work to support his family back in Mexico. The film looks... See full summary »

Director: Dan Glynn

Votes: 8

40. Hop (2002)

106 min | Comedy, Drama

All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law. He must embark on a ... See full summary »

Director: Dominique Standaert | Stars: Kalomba Mboyi, Jan Decleir, Antje de Boeck, Ansou Diedhiou

Votes: 457

41. Nachbarinnen (2004)

88 min | Drama

The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life... See full summary »

Director: Francis Meletzky | Stars: Dagmar Manzel, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jörg Schüttauf, Berndt Stübner

Votes: 132

42. Al-Adham (2009– )

Drama

Adham travels to Ukraine with a group of illegal immigrants to seek employment and escape the conflicts that had torn his family apart for more than twenty years.

Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Cyrine AbdelNour, Salah Abdullah, Hanan Sulieman

Votes: 142

43. Maple Palm (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A lesbian couple of fifteen years lives with the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. With no legal way to protect their relationship, the couple lives in fear of deportation. After an ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Torjan | Stars: Deborah Stewart, Taymour Ghazi, Andrea Carvajal, Robert J. Feldman

Votes: 409

44. American Harvest (2008)

100 min | Documentary

Anti-immigration sentiment sweeps across America. A journey from Florida to New York, including a trip to the Mexican border, reveals the lives and issues of legal and illegal migrants and ... See full summary »

Director: Angelo Mancuso

Votes: 23

45. GG 19 - Eine Reise durch Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

143 min | Comedy, Drama

GG 19 is a cinematic journey through Germany within 19 articles. Á la short cuts, in 19 stories, the fundamental rights of the Federal Republic of Germany become an emotional experience. ... See full summary »

Directors: Boris Anderson, Ansgar Ahlers, Marcel Ahrens, Sabine Bernardi, Axel Bold, Savas Ceviz, David Dietl, Nina Franoszek, Johannes Harth, Marion Kracht, André F. Nebe, Carolin Otterbach, Kerstin Polte, Christine Repond, Andreas Samland, Harald Siebler, Suzanne von Borsody, Johannes von Gwinner, Philipp von Werther | Stars: Adriana Altaras, Thomas Bading, Claudia Maria Bauer, Stephan Boden

Votes: 51

46. Days of Love (1999 TV Movie)

Comedy

The adventures and sexual encounters of youth coming age.

Directors: Eitan Dotan, Evgeny Afineevsky | Stars: Yehuda Efroni, Dina Golan, Aviva Marks, Aryeh Moskona

Votes: 7

47. Il tramite (2004)

104 min | Drama

In southern Italy, Rollo, a nearly mute, large, muscular young man, is part of a crime gang. He wants to go on "an escort," to smuggle a ten-year-old Moroccan boy into Switzerland where ... See full summary »

Director: Stefano Reali | Stars: Maurizio Mattioli, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Ana Papadopulu, Bayed Mohamed Ismail

Votes: 162

48. Gen. Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty (2017 Video)

56 min | News

Stefan Molyneux interviews Lionel of "Lionel Nation" about Michael Flynn, Kate Steinle, and more.

Stars: Lionel, Stefan Molyneux

49. Chasing Life (2007 Video)

R | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A female rock singer and her band, on her way to Los Angeles, in search of love and stardom, is forced to face the secrets of her past when her band breaks down in a racist town in Texas.

Director: Daniel Glasser | Stars: Jodi Nelson-Tabor, Tristan Aronovich, Jason Bonduris, Ransom Boynton

Votes: 8

50. Spartacus & Cassandra (2014)

80 min | Documentary

Spartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children and performs ... See full summary »

Director: Ioanis Nuguet | Stars: Cassandra Dumitru, Spartacus Ursu, Camille Brisson, Lamina Dumitru

Votes: 114