
A small group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the trials and inequities faced by Mexican undocumented immigrants. When they join a group of families crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained. What happens next plunges their group into unimaginable horror.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
A small group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the trials and inequities faced by Mexican undocumented immigrants. When they join a group of families crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained. What happens next plunges their group into unimaginable horror.
Leave your thoughts about Undocumented.
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsMarco Williams' remarkable film The Undocumented... considers these many burdens in a series of contexts. |
| User ReviewKen KThe best IFC Midnight movie ever. Brutal and sure to stir up lots of controversy. A must see if you like horror. |
| User ReviewTim MReally loved this movie. My favorite sub-genre (trapped, tortured, etc.) - well done, really stylish directing too. |
| User ReviewTodd S"What in the world....What is wrong with people...OMG....Are you kidding me....WTH...This is crazy....Why..." These are some of the things I said throughout this entire movie over and over again! |
| User ReviewRon SThis is not for the people with weak stomachs . Some torture horror is far fetched but this one seems like it is something that someone or group would attempt to do . You never turn your head after the action starts in this film and you become rooting for the captives this all together was a very good film . I highly suggest to fans of this type of movie |
| User Reviewstu b"Whatever you think is going on here, this is worse." A documentary crew accompany a group of illegal immigrants crossing the Border, but their plans run afoul when they are captured by a gang of sadistic radicals in New Mexico. REVIEW 'Undocumented' follows a documentary crew who is attached to a group of Mexican immigrants who have paid enormous sums of money to a coyote (not the cat-snatching mongrel, rather a smuggler of people) to get into the United States. Illegally, in case you weren't getting the point. The irony is that legal entrance to the United States is cheaper and safer, if safety is part of the calculation - but that's politics, and a hard topic to rationally discuss in Texas, California, or Arizona. Incredibly the creators of 'Undocumented' use blood and abject terror to drive the discourse in a way that TV's Border Wars simply cannot. And no matter what side you sit on the political spectrum, you will think about the subject matter. The cast does exceptional and memorable work: Liz, the high-minded liberal producer (Alona Tal, of lots o' TV and voice-overs since 2003); her erstwhile boyfriend and the project's journo-opportunistic director, Travis (Scott Mechlowicz, of 'Eurotrip'); the Mexican émigré cousin, Alberto (the more-than-credible Yancey Arias) of one of the crew, Davie (Greg Serano, with a solid TV CV); and drug-using sound guy smart ass, Jim (Alias' Kevin Weisman). Even the narratively expendable characters turn negligible "raw meat" roles into loss. The tragic chorus of ill-fated illegal aliens are authentic and utterly haunting, as if director Chris Peckover actually captured and tortured them. (He didn't. Right?) The film treads the kind of suggested territory that franchise torture porn such as Hostel and Saw is awkwardly compelled to throw at the audience in explicit, anatomically-correct splatter. The argument that such franchises are simply satire is lost: 'Undocumented' is pure and sophisticated satire that teases the sensibilities of the viewer without abusing them into disaffection. You care. And stranger still, your perspective - your "side" - is apt to vacillate. It's a "hard" movie. I could go on and on: I can't stop thinking about this film. I was on the edge of my seat early on, and gripped until the very end. It's a brilliant effort that touches nerves you may not even know you have. The closing shot and speech, the first reveal of the masked radicals, the enigmatic "Z" and the breadth of the cabal is unforgettable - cinema gold. |
| User ReviewMichael GA chilling and disturbing satire of immigration in America that really hits American society to the core! |
| User Reviewbrandon hthis was simply something i realy like the idea of it but its pretty messed up |
| User ReviewKrys MThis move made me want to hit someone with a hammer. |
| User ReviewPaul DTake your pick on the directors views of this situation that America is dealing with. Intense, and great acting as well. |