Film+List

=Films you can use for final essay/presentation:=


 * //**Sin Nombre** (2009) (R)// // A (YOU NEED TO RENT IT) //
 * // **Lives for Sale** (2007) //// A new documentary on Immigration and Human Trafficking. //Lives for Sale //goes beyond the rhetoric to show why immigrants are willing to risk everything - even virtual slavery - for the American Dream. While politicians, activists and the media wrestle with the thorny issue of immigration, this new investigative documentary exposes the painful, rarely seen human side of illegal immigration; especially the growing black market trade in human beings. (IN THE LIBRARY)//
 * // **The Gatekeeper** (2004) (R) //// A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent who turns vigilante and goes undercover to pursue those he sees as "undesirables" crossing the border from Mexico. Things go very wrong when he is caught in the midst of a Central American drug ring. (IN THE LIBRARY) //
 * // **A Day Without a Mexican** (2004) //// One third of the population of California are Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans. How would it change life for the state's other residents if this portion of the populous was suddenly not there? Director** Sergio Arau **calls his film a "mockumentary." ** Yareli Arizmendi, ** married to Arau, co-wrote and stars in the film. She says it is their hope that lawmakers and moviegoers will recognize the valuable contributions made everyday by Latinos.  (I HAVE IT) //
 * // **Under the Same Moon** (2007) //// A (IN THE LIBRARY) // Heartwarming story about a mother who leaves Mexico to make a home for herself and her son (** Adrian Alonso **). When the boy's grandmother dies, leaving him alone, he sets off on his own to find his mother (** Kate del Castillo **).
 * **//7 SUNS / 7 SOLES//** (2009) tells the story of Negro (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) who gets hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants out of the smuggling business and claims this will be his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilán, a younger smuggler, to keep an eye on him. During the troubled crossing that lasts seven days across the Arizona desert, the smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human cargo. Negro now finds himself on the run from his former associates and the law. 7 Soles (7 Suns) is a movie that will allow the world to visualize the cruel tragedy that many undocumented immigrants suffer in the Arizona desert everyday. Beaten, tortured, robbed, kidnapped, raped, murdered. The scenes are based on real testimonies from those that have survived the journey across the devils highway. (YOU NEED TO RENT IT)
 * **Latinos on Campus** (2010) A probing, intimate look at the journey of LAtino students into mainstream American higher education. Latino students at Tufts University tell their stories and provide first-hand historic, economic, and cultural information about Latino students in the U.S.. (I HAVE IT!)
 *  //**Spanglish** (2004) (PG-13) // A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. (YOU NEED TO RENT IT)
 * A different movie approved by me!