Movies Similar to Number Eighty

Frozen River(2008)

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

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Lovers(1999)

A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.

5.9

EDGES - the borders that define us(2024)

To some, Doña Cecilia is an invisible, elderly woman. For others, her presence validates their existence. This movie on children's civil rights shows how borders are transformed into bridges by the power of unconditional love and music.

0.0

A Million Miles Away(2023)

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

7.7

The Visitor(2008)

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

7.2

Dirty Pretty Things(2002)

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

6.9

Babel(2006)

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

7.2

Maria Full of Grace(2004)

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

7.2

Shaft in Africa(1973)

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

6.1

The Terminal(2004)

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

7.3

It's a Free World...(2007)

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

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Your Happiness Depends on Me(2006)

When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

6.0

Borderline(1980)

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.

5.9

True North(2007)

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

6.6

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada(2005)

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

7.0

Fast Food Nation(2006)

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

6.1

Time Suspended(2015)

An extraordinary film about memory, and specifically the fading memory of an 86-year-old political activist who has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for justice in Argentina. The director’s grandmother, Laura Bonaparte, was one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, formed during the 1970s by women whose children and family members had been disappeared by the Videla military dictatorship. Laura herself lost three children and their partners, including the director’s parents. Today, after a lifetime battling that the disappeared never be forgotten, Laura faces her own struggle to remember.

10.0

The Class(2008)

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

7.0

De ida y vuelta(2001)

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.

8.0

Backyard(2009)

Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.

6.4