Smuggling Contraband Movies

Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard.

A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in...

A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a...

Life changes for Eeva, working in a hosiery factory as she was chosen as a model. Soon she gets involved in a police operation while working as a...

A young slacker circumstantially gets involved in the smuggling of falsified English pounds via Trieste-Yugoslavia route. He helps the police to...

Meet Rubel, fourteen years old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga acting as the international border. The...

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young,...

An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European...

A boatman who worked for others all his life gets into smuggling of luxury watches so he could earn enough for old age. A girl he loves and money is...

California’s fight to protect valuable native succulents from an international poaching ring. When suspicious packages are found in a small...

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...

Old John Carstens sells his marine‐equipment firm to Lafrenz, unaware it’s now a fuel‐smuggling front. Living above the showroom...

Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics, which I’ll touch on in an introduction before the screening. One of Eugene...

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...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In...

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...

The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.

Madrid, Spain, 2120. The city has been transformed, stratified: the rich above, near the sky; the poor below, among the garbage. Nitrogreen, a highly...