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1) Cry macho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
2) Sicario
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In the Old West, a family of renegades controls the only water source in a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought. However, when a stranger arrives to reclaim his father's land, a violent confrontation changes all of their lives forever.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Formats
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In the drug war, there are no rules, and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver calls on the mysterious Alejandro, whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin₂s daughter to inflame the conflict. But when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men.
6) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
While out on a father-son border patrol, Jackson accidentally kills a Mexican immigrant boy. When Jackson's father tries taking the blame, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a gringo 'illegal alien' in Mexico. Chased by Texas Rangers and Mexican Federales, Jackson journeys across Mexico to seek forgiveness from the dead boy's father only to fall in love with the land he was taught to hate.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Includes all ten episodes of season two. The next chapter in Kurt Sutter's award-winning Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Ezekiel 'EZ' Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
10) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When a murder victim is discovered on the bridge connecting El Paso and Juarez, detective Sonya Cross must work with her Mexican counterpart, Marco Ruiz, to catch a serial killer terrorizing both sides of the border. But their investigation will uncover shocking secrets and relentless danger that neither of them could possibly have imagined.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The first of the well-known "spaghetti westerns", this film, with its unremitting violence, gritty realism, tongue-in-cheek humour and striking visuals making full use of the widescreen format, launched the careers of director Sergio Leone and a little-known actor called Clint Eastwood. Borrowing the plot of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Eastwood plays a gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rival gangs.
13) El coyote
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The Italian mob descends on the Mexico border to take on the most powerful cartel in America.
14) The wild bunch
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
Outlaws on the U.S.-Mexican border face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member as they plan to rob a U.S. Army train.
15) Frontera
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Set along the tumultuous Arizona-Mexico border, follows Miguel, a hardworking father and devoted husband who crosses the border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife of a former sheriff. Miguel's pregnant wife lands in the hands of corrupt Mexican "Coyote" smugglers as she tries to help her husband, while the ex-lawman investigates his wife's death and unearths evidence that could destroy one family's future.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Marco Ruiz and Sonya Cross are brought together again by the murder of a cartel member whose body is found in El Paso. Meanwhile, reporters Frye and Mendez venture deeper into the border region underworld to follow the path of a money-laundering operation.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
FISTFUL OF DOLLARS: A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang.
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE: Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: A bounty hunting scam joins...
18) Touch of evil
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A narcotics officer and a corrupt cop are involved in a murder investigation in a small border town.
19) The border
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
As a border guard involved in drug smuggling along the Rio Grande, Charlie Smith has crossed the line many times. But when he decides to clean up his act and help unite an illegal woman with her baby, he runs afoul of his corrupt department, his greedy wife and a ruthless neighbor in this action-packed suspense-thriller.
20) Coyotaje
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Ed Montenez is a Shadow Wolves Tracker and Border Patrol Agent hunting a lone Coyote who carries a mysterious package. Infused into the chase is a pair of rogue militiamen hell-bent on defending the border and a suspicious Federal Agent investigating border killings and corruption. No matter their motives each one of them becomes indentured to the package once they uncover the nature of its contents.
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