Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "smuggler"

51. Spy/Master (2023)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Victor Godeanu, Ceausescu's right-hand man, has a secret. He is also a KGB agent and must escape before he is discovered, so he will seize a valuable diplomatic opportunity.

Stars: Alec Secareanu, Parker Sawyers, Ana Ularu, Svenja Jung

Votes: 3,800

52. Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009 Video)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A pair of professional divers are hired to find Columbus' hidden treasure.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Chris Carmack, Laura Vandervoort, Marsha Thomason, Michael Graziadei

Votes: 5,469

53. Black Cat, White Cat (1998)

R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.

Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini

Votes: 56,353 | Gross: $0.35M

54. The Brothers Bloom (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi

Votes: 52,574 | Gross: $3.52M

55. Money Talks (1997)

R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Heather Locklear, Elise Neal

Votes: 31,257 | Gross: $41.07M

56. Stage Fright (1950)

Approved | 110 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding

Votes: 16,109

57. Cocaine Godmother (2017 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.

Director: Guillermo Navarro | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenny Pellicer, Alejandro Edda, Warren Christie

Votes: 2,671

58. BioShock (2007 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

In 1960, a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.

Director: Ken Levine | Stars: John Ahlin, Greg Baldwin, Jane Beller, Susanne Blakeslee

Votes: 21,947

59. The Company You Keep (2012)

R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller

After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte

Votes: 34,967 | Gross: $5.13M

60. Vice Versa (1988)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Divorced executive Marshall and his 11-year-old son Charlie casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers Marshall's mind to Charlie's body and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.

Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz

Votes: 10,566 | Gross: $13.66M

61. Law of Tehran (2019)

131 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.

Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani

Votes: 18,408

62. Balthazar (1966)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert

Votes: 22,788 | Gross: $0.04M

63. BioShock

Action, Adventure, Horror | Pre-production

Based on the popular Video Game "Bioshock".

Director: Francis Lawrence

64. Black Sunday (1977)

R | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver

Votes: 9,075 | Gross: $15.77M

65. Shanghai Surprise (1986)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.

Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths

Votes: 5,760 | Gross: $2.32M

66. Locked Up Abroad (2007– )

TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Drama

Survivors share their stories and experience of survival abroad.

Stars: Natalie Dunne, Max Wrottesley, Manuel Villasenor, Jerry Murillo

Votes: 2,229

67. Frozen River (2008)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?

Director: Courtney Hunt | Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe

Votes: 26,454 | Gross: $2.51M

68. La Viuda Negra (2014–2016)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama

"The Black Widow" is based on the life of Griselda Blanco. This Colombian novela walks you through the life of the infamous Griselda Blanco, a Cocain Kingpin in the early 1980's.

Stars: Ana Serradilla, Julián Román, Juan Pablo Gamboa, Francisco Bolívar

Votes: 284

69. Jumong (2006–2007)

TV-Y | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

An epic based on the myth of Jumong, founder of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo in 37 B.C.

Stars: Song Il-guk, Han Hye-jin, Kim Seung-su, Jun Kwang-ryul

Votes: 4,099

70. Desierto (2015)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.

Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño

Votes: 10,755 | Gross: $1.83M

71. Slipstream (1989)

PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.

Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton

Votes: 3,061

72. Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller

Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi

Votes: 7,769

73. McHale's Navy (1997)

PG | 108 min | Action, Comedy

A retired Navy officer returns to active duty, along with a group of misfit sailors, to battle his former nemesis.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, Ernest Borgnine, Debra Messing

Votes: 7,098 | Gross: $4.53M

74. Silk (2007)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance

The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.

Director: François Girard | Stars: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Sei Ashina

Votes: 11,746 | Gross: $1.10M

75. Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis

Votes: 770

76. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon

Votes: 6,241 | Gross: $18.00M

77. No Such Thing (2001)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Margrét Ákadóttir, Julie Anderson

Votes: 4,452 | Gross: $0.06M

78. Jamaica Inn (2014–2015)

TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, History, Mystery

A young woman moves in with her aunt and uncle and soon discovers unsavory happenings in her new home.

Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew McNulty, Sean Harris, Joanne Whalley

Votes: 1,958

79. Soldier of Fortune (1955)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

After Jane Hoyt's journalist husband disappears, she arrives in Hong Kong determined to find him but instead meets shady shipping magnate Hank Lee.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry

Votes: 1,718

80. Mr. Nice (2010)

121 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

The life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Luis Tosar

Votes: 7,924

81. It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Mike and Danny hitch a ride to the World's Fair in Seattle after the sheriff seizes their crop duster biplane to cover Danny's gambling debts. Mike looks after the driver's 7 y.o. niece at the fair, where he meets a cute nurse.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu

Votes: 3,126

82. Confidential Report (1955)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina

Votes: 9,223

83. In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 3,447 | Gross: $21.75M

84. She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.

Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland

Votes: 7,032 | Gross: $4.80M

85. Lola (1961)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott

Votes: 7,521

86. Frontera (2014)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A former Arizona sheriff's wife is killed while riding on their ranch property. It would appear a Mexican man illegally crossing into the US is at fault. As the former and the current sheriff search for answers, lives are changed forever.

Director: Michael Berry | Stars: Ed Harris, Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, Amy Madigan

Votes: 8,419 | Gross: $0.06M

87. Cold Sweat (1970)

PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

With his wife and daughter being held hostage, a seasoned ex-military man is involved in a shady smuggling operation to save his family.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Charles Bronson, James Mason, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland

Votes: 3,063

88. Pamfir (2022)

107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Pamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.

Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | Stars: Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potiak, Solomiia Kyrylova, Olena Khokhlatkina

Votes: 3,290

89. Yellow-Faced Tiger (1974)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Director: Wei Lo | Stars: Chuck Norris, Sylvia Chang, Don Wong, Wang Tsun

Votes: 726

90. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The adventures of supernatural private investigator, Dylan Dog, who seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans.

Director: Kevin Munroe | Stars: Brandon Routh, Aníta Briem, Sam Huntington, Taye Diggs

Votes: 15,636 | Gross: $1.18M

91. Christina (1984)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

The world's most notorious heiress and bachelorette is kidnapped from the Italian countryside. Will she survive the ordeal?

Director: Francisco Lara Polop | Stars: Jewel Shepard, Ian Serra, Enrique Johnson, Emilio Linder

Votes: 402

92. The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966 TV Movie)

GP | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.

Directors: Terence Young, Henry Levin | Stars: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson

Votes: 1,057

93. Out of Control (1984)

R | 78 min | Action, Drama

Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Martin Hewitt, Betsy Russell, Claudia Udy, Andrew J. Lederer

Votes: 515

94. Terra Estrangeira (1995)

110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to his mother's native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.

Directors: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas | Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernando Alves Pinto, Alexandre Borges, Luís Melo

Votes: 1,921

95. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

Not Rated | 82 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven

Votes: 1,579

96. City in the Sea (1965)

Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart

Votes: 2,597

97. Deewaar (1975)

Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Vijay struggles as a dockworker and eventually becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother Ravi is an educated, upright policeman. This divide causes problems in their relationship.

Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi

Votes: 11,708

98. The King of Algiers (2023)

92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Omar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.

Director: Elias Belkeddar | Stars: Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar, Haroun Attalah

Votes: 655

99. The Diamond Arm (1969)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.

Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov

Votes: 16,209

100. O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)

88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.

Director: Piotr Szulkin | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik, Mariusz Dmochowski

Votes: 1,691