Bordertown (
2007) | IMDb:
6
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Starring:
Jennifer Lopez
,
Martin Sheen
,
Antonio Banderas
,
Maya Zapata
,
Sônia Braga
,
Kate del Castillo
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
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.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones
,
Barry Pepper
,
Dwight Yoakam
,
January Jones
,
Melissa Leo
,
Julio Cedillo
Dance with the Devil (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.
Starring:
Rosie Perez
,
Javier Bardem
,
Harley Cross
,
Aimee Graham
,
James Gandolfini
,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Old Gringo (
1989) | IMDb:
5.8
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Directed by:
Luis Puenzo