This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Two illegal immigrants meet a young kid and the three become best friends until one of them joins the Triads. Now the remaining two must fight the Triads in a battle to the death.
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the Getty Foundation in 2017.
A fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.
An emotionally disturbed young woman who is obsessed with the death of her father delves into the mystery.
Una organització governamental secreta s'encarrega de protegir la Terra de les amenaces alienígenes.
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
Niki wants to leave his family and work illegally in Germany. The voyage with his friend Cretu proves difficult.
On January 3, 2001 in Lorca there was a traffic accident that caused 12 deaths who were Ecuadorians, worked in agricultural fields and were in an irregular situation in Spain. This documentary reflects the harsh reality experienced by dozens of illegal Ecuadorians offering much cheaper labor in Spain.
Han passat quatre anys des que els agents J i K, els Homes de Negre buscadors d'alienígenes, van evitar un desastre intergalàctic, i des d'aleshores, K ha tornat a la comoditat de la seva vida civil, mentre que J continua la seva feina controlant els extraterrestres. Ara, davant una greu amenaça, J haurà de convèncer K perquè torni als Homes de Negre i l'ajudi a salvar la Terra.
Un thriller estrany que té lloc a la part de Londres que el turista no veu mai. El punt de vista correspon a un immigrant il·legal, Okwe, un nigerià que treballa com a xofer d’un minitaxi i com a recepcionista en un hotel menys que respectable...
Nop is a small time thief who gets a job from the local Chinese mafia in Bangkok. He and another guy have to pick up some girls from a small fishing port nearby who have been smuggled in from China to work in a Karaoke bar and deliver them to Bangkok. On the way back into town they are stopped at a police check point and the cops soon realize the people in the van are all illegal immigrants. He runs away with a girl who speaks some Thai named Liew who is coming to Thailand to pay back her family's debts. A chase leads to them nearly being captured and Nop is shot but they manage to escape and hide out in Pattaya for a few days. They have a relationship but Nop must hand over the girl to the mob no matter what. She does not want to work in the bar but is forced to. Nop does not agree...