In a sleepy coastal village a curse lies waiting. Legend has it one night centuries ago when a smuggler was delivering his illicit wares, the excise men pounced. One of the villagers had betrayed him. The smuggler was caught and quickly hanged as an example but, his widow was more than she seemed, the practitioner of an ancient religion of magic and sorcery. The villagers formed a mob to hunt her down as a witch, they brutalised her, tarred and feathered her, but before they could kill her she put one last curse upon the land; that nothing should flourish, no life or love, before taking her own life and spilling her blood upon the land.
A young woman, Abby, makes a deal with her younger brother Danny, allowing him to seek refuge at her apartment after an illegal job gone wrong. However, as days pass, she begins to question the faithfulness of his side of the deal, as well as the oddly intimate relationship he shares with his mannequin-shaped package.
Santi is a teenage father who lives in a small coastal town. During the day he has a job as a fisherman, while at night he smuggles seafood. While his girlfriend Lucia takes care of their baby all by herself, Santi, absent and overwhelmed by responsibility, seeks refuge and redemption in the sea.
In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the 'waste videos', South Korean films were also smuggled into the country via China.
California’s fight to protect valuable native succulents from an international poaching ring. When suspicious packages are found in a small town in northern California, Game Warden Pat Freeling, gets a tip about the peculiar activity. After further investigation he exposes a vast network of illegal plant poachers. These smugglers ravage the landscape as they rip thousands of the native succulent, Dudleya Farinosa, from their natural habitat. This small unassuming plant carries a hefty bounty on its head internationally, where a single succulent boasts a price tag in the thousands. With the help of volunteers, native plant biologists, and local government, they fight to stop this ecological destruction.
Saint Charles County, Missouri, December 1863. Edmond, a prosperous French perfume merchant, decides to flee to a safer place when the storms of the American Civil War start knocking at his door, threatening the life and fortune of his family.
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border. It is a game with no winner – all participants are driven to play by the sense of despair. While one side leaves home and undertakes a perilous journey to the other side of the globe, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in a free country, the other side risks their freedom to earn a chance to stay right where they are, in their homeland. *coyote – someone who smuggles illegal immigrants
Madrid, Spain, 2120. The city has been transformed, stratified: the rich above, near the sky; the poor below, among the garbage. Nitrogreen, a highly unstable liquid capable of generating vegetation instantly, is the most valuable smuggled goods… and a ticket out.
When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dangerous world he was about to step into. Betrayed and set up, Matt finds himself on the run from the CIA and hired mercenaries, all looking for a package that he has supposedly smuggled through customs. Hunted on all sides, Matt is aided by Agent Adriana Vasquez, a femme fatale with orders of her own to follow.
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
While transporting a dying man to the hospital, two paramedics find a million dollars in cash sewn into his clothing. When the man dies, they decide to keep it, setting them on a path for a hellish night of violence and mayhem.
Im Mittelpunkt steht der junge Schmuggler Han Solo dessen erstes großes Abenteuer gezeigt wird. Solo ist von der Flugakademie geworfen worden, weil er seinen eigenen Kopf hat – eine Eigenschaft, die er auch anschließend nicht verliert. Sein Mentor, der zwielichtige Gangster Tobias Beckett, schickt ihn auf eine wichtige Mission. Begleitet wird Solo unter anderem von seinem neuen, treuen Freund Chewbacca, von Qi’Ra die ihn kennt wie kein anderer – und von Lando Calrissian.
Sean Haggerty ist ein Drogenkurier und er spielt ein doppeltes Spiel. An Bord der Cessna, die er fliegt, ist eine Ladung Kokain. Er wird den Stoff über die Grenze bringen und die DEA wird von ihm erfahren, wo er die Ladung übergibt. Wenn die Falle über dem Kartell zuschnappt, bekommen Sean und seine Frau eine neue Identität und Jen die teure medizinische Behandlung, die ihr Leben rettet. Doch Seans Auftraggeber ändern ihren Plan und auch die DEA hat neue Ideen vom Ablauf der Aktion. Es wird eng für Seans Doppelspiel. Dann kommt eine Nachricht, die alles verändert – das Kartell hat Jen …
16-year-old Hormoz is consoled by the prospect of hiring on at the strip mine as he is married off to 13-year-old Hendi. Alas, the young man finds the doors of opportunity shut tight. When Hendi becomes pregnant Hormoz enters into an ominous pact with a smuggler in order to ensure his family’s livelihood.
A former smuggler attempts to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.
During the course of an excavation work for the construction of a new capital at Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, workers chance upon an antique idol of a young woman. A smuggler strikes a fancy deal to smuggle the statue abroad, but first it has to be transported to Hyderabad by road. And the antique idol suddenly comes to life!
Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
Efraim Diveroli und David Packouz sind zwei Freunde aus Miami Beach, die gerne einen Joint durchziehen und ein entspanntes Leben in Florida führen. Da es sich mit etwas mehr Geld auf dem Konto selbstredend noch besser leben lassen würde, beschließen sie, eine wenig bekannte Initiative der US-Regierung auszunutzen, die kleine Firmen für amerikanische Rüstungsaufträge verpflichtet. Allerdings haben sie nicht damit gerechnet, einen 300-Millionen-Dollar-Auftrag an Land zu ziehen...
The journey of the world's most notorious sandalwood and ivory smuggler, Veerappan who was finally captured on October 18, 2004.
Twelve strangers embark on the Trans-Asia Express, a four-day train journey from Tehran to Istanbul. But not everyone is who they pretend to be or seem to be,