Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "people-smuggling"

1. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

Votes: 172,552 | Gross: $130.44M

2. Harper (1966)

Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill

Votes: 10,983

3. To Have and Have Not (1944)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir

During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran

Votes: 38,083

4. Beyond Utopia (2023)

PG-13 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.

Director: Madeleine Gavin | Stars: Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry

Votes: 3,539

5. Desierto (2015)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.

Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño

Votes: 10,769 | Gross: $1.83M

6. The Border (1982)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates

Votes: 7,110 | Gross: $6.12M

7. Borderline (1980)

PG | 97 min | Action, Drama

On the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb's partner's murder.

Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner

Votes: 2,402

8. Wataha (2014– )

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After bombing attack, which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow trying to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.

Stars: Leszek Lichota, Aleksandra Poplawska, Andrzej Zielinski, Maciej Mikolajczyk

Votes: 3,130

9. Sold: Sex Slaves Next Door (2022 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

In every corner of the UK, women are being kept as slaves and sold for sex. Jean Mackenzie heads on a journey into Romania's underworld to uncover the shocking secrets of this ruthless trade.

Director: Andy Smythe | Star: Jean Mackenzie

Votes: 51

10. Monsieur Batignole (2002)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, War

In 1942, in occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When Pierre-Jean Lamour, his future ... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Jugnot | Stars: Jules Sitruk, Gérard Jugnot, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve

Votes: 3,458

11. PT Raiders (1955)

88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna

Votes: 669

12. Sword in the Desert (1949)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler

Votes: 320

13. Ghosts (2006)

96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A young Chinese girl is smuggled into the UK so she can support her son and family in China.

Director: Nick Broomfield | Stars: Zhan Yu, Tao Li, Ai Qin Lin, Zhe Wei

Votes: 844

14. True North (II) (2006)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.

Director: Steve Hudson | Stars: Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis, Steven Robertson

Votes: 1,122

15. Before Snowfall (2013)

96 min | Drama

A sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.

Director: Hisham Zaman | Stars: Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Ozen, Ava Abdulsattar

Votes: 599

16. Harragas (2009)

95 min | Drama

Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we ... See full summary »

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Lamia Boussekine, Nabil Asli, Samir El Hakim, Seddik Benyagoub

Votes: 157

17. Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016– )

173 min | Documentary

Shot over 3 years in 31 countries, continuing to follow the refugee crisis in Europe. Finding out what happened to some of the people featured previously and meeting others still making the journey.

Stars: Tariq, Isra, Paul Bown, Dominic Rowan

Votes: 73

18. Smuggled (2019)

46 min | Documentary

British citizens test the effectiveness of the UK's border security systems by using a variety of methods to attempt to smuggle themselves back into Britain without their passports. Will Border Force catch them?

Stars: Frances Barber, Tahir Shah

19. El alijo (1976)

105 min | Crime, Drama

A pair of Spanish truck drivers used to the game of escaping the police in smuggling operations, receive a new contract, overpaid in relation to the usual, so they won't say no: crossing ... See full summary »

Director: Ángel del Pozo | Stars: Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Sancho, Paloma Cela, Helga Liné

Votes: 20

20. Pirtukuningas (1986 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary, Biography

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Director: Timo Jokinen | Stars: Celia Andersson, Nils Dahlman, Fred Fagerström, Matti Jämsä

21. Félix: Autoficciones de un traficante (2011)

90 min | Documentary, Drama

Felix is a home-movie actor and human trafficker in Tijuana. He has managed to live, work and validate his immigration status in the United States without ceasing to transgress the border, ... See full summary »

Director: Adriana Trujillo | Stars: Fernando Sáenz, Felix Rosales

22. Lethe 2014 (1996)

83 min | Drama, Thriller

A migration-drama set in the year of 2014. A prophetic assumption that happened to predict the future correctly.

Director: Alexander Zahn | Stars: Christa Azzola, Carsten Boehme, Slava Demidow, Wanja Götz

23. The Mexicans (1983 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

John Pilger reports on political repression in Mexico.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Larry Hall

24. Tatort (1970– )
Episode: Amoklauf (1993)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Werner Masten | Stars: Manfred Krug, Charles Brauer, Lutz Reichert, Peter Lohmeyer

Votes: 55

25. Kisváros (1993–2001)
Episode: Gázkitörés (2000)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

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Director: Lajos Fazekas | Stars: Frigyes Hollósi, István Fillár, Tamás Balikó, Péter Beregi

26. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The People Importers (1968)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Whilst fishing off the South coast of England the Saint comes across an unsuccessful boat-builder who is nonetheless in the money because he is in the business of smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Roger Moore, Neil Hallett, Susan Travers, Gary Miller

Votes: 128

27. Dexter (2006–2013)
Episode: Love American Style (2006)

TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Homicide Division is buzzing after the Ice Truck Killer's latest victim is found mutilated but alive, while Dexter gets in over his head when he stalks a murderous human trafficker.

Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King

Votes: 6,693

28. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Episode: Part III (2022)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Obi-Wan searches for allies as he attracts the attention of the Empire, threatening the locals.

Director: Deborah Chow | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Vivien Lyra Blair, Moses Ingram, Sung Kang

Votes: 25,157

29. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Episode: Part V (2022)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Obi-Wan plans his next move as the Empire, closing in, tries to draw him out.

Director: Deborah Chow | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Vivien Lyra Blair

Votes: 21,257

30. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: The Last Don (2021)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

In the mid-1990s, left-wing guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries plunge Colombia into a civil war financed by the profits from cocaine trafficking.

Stars: Carlos Ramón Zapata, Chris Feistl, Jeremy McDermott, Salud Hernandez Mora

Votes: 19

31. Grace (2021– )
Episode: Dead Tomorrow (2022)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a body is dredged up from the seabed of the English Channel, it sets in motion a truly disturbing investigation which forces Grace to ask himself just how far anyone might go to save the ones they love.

Director: Kate Saxon | Stars: Seham Aar, Shamail Ali, Faith Alabi, Ellis George

Votes: 366

32. DI Ray (2022– )
Episode: Part Two (2022)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Rachita and the team race to track down Anjuli Kapoor, making grim discoveries in the process.

Director: Audrey Cooke | Stars: Parminder Nagra, Maanuv Thiara, Zoe Gibbons, Gemma Whelan

Votes: 220

33. DI Ray (2022– )
Episode: Part Three (2022)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The body count continues to rise as Rachita and the team uncover more evidence.

Director: Alex Pillai | Stars: Narayan David Hecter, John Hicks, Ian Puleston-Davies, Yasmin Allam-Pinnock

Votes: 208

34. Special Ops: Crime Squad UK (2022– )
Episode: Episode #2.5 (2022)

44 min | Documentary, Crime

Britain's answer to the FBI, the National Crime Agency, tackle a people-smuggling ring, a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling operation and organised online romance fraud.

Star: Lois Chimimba

35. The Paradise (2020– )
Episode: Run While You Can (2022)

50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Andrés Villanueva's visit in Finland gets a new turn when he starts to assist in the investigation. A young athlete Timo gets unwanted information about his health, while an African couple is trafficked to Spain by suspicious people.

Director: Marja Pyykkö | Stars: Riitta Havukainen, Fran Perea, María Romero, Alina Tomnikov

Votes: 22

36. Panorama (1953– )
Episode: Immigration Undercover (2013)

30 min | Documentary, News

It is estimated that there are more than half a million foreign migrants hiding from the authorities in the UK. Paul Kenyon goes undercover to expose the illegal travel network smuggling them in and OUT of Britain.

Director: Jason Gwynne | Star: Paul Kenyon

37. iZombie (2015–2019)
Episode: Thug Death (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Liv and Clive investigate a murder case in which there are no brains to eat. The only evidence they have to work with is a grainy video and a little bit of blood found at the crime scene. Blaine gets up to some of his old tricks.

Director: Dan Etheridge | Stars: Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley

Votes: 637