I det lovløse grænseområde mellem USA og Mexico slutter den unge FBI-agent Kate Macer sig til forsvarsministeriets agent Matt Graver for at deltage i kampen mod de mexicanske narkokarteller. Den lille specialgruppe, der også tæller den hemmelighedsfulde Alejandro, begiver sig ud på deres hemmelige opgave. Snart går det op for Kate, at hun må lægge sin gamle opfattelse af lov og ret bag sig, hvis hun vil overleve.

Vi har savnet ham i 20 år, men nu er Rambo endelig tilbage! På grænsen til det borgerkrigshærgede Burma begynder det hidtil blodigste kapitel om frihedskæmperen John Rambo. Et hold nødhjælpsarbejdere er fanget bag fjendens linjer, og kun én mand tør krydse grænsen og kaste sig ud i den ondeste junglekrig. Navnet er Rambo, og metoden er klar: Burn Burma, Burn!

A.K. Walthers er krigshelt og officer i det amerikanske frømanskorps – The Navy S.E.A.L.S. Hans enhed sendes til det krigshærgede Nigeria for at redde den amerikanske statsborger Dr. Lena Kendricks ud af landet, inden det er for sent.

Men da den hårdhudede Walthers og hans enhed når frem, nægter Hendricks at forlade sin farm, der fungerer som tilflugtsted for krigens ofre. Tværtimod bønfalder hun Walthers at eskortere flygtningene på en farefuld flugt gennem junglen mod Camerouns grænse.

Betjent Ray Owens fik nok af livet som narkostrømer i Los Angeles. Nu hygger han sig som politimester i den fredelige grænseby Summerton Junction. Skæbnen vil, at en eftersøgt narkobaron har kurs mod netop denne flække i sin supertunede Corvette. FBI har sit hyr med at indhente ham, så en meget modvilllig Owens må forsøge at pågribe kartelbossen, inden han slipper over grænsen til Mexico.

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.

Den mexicanske narko-politimand Mike Vargas er på bryllupsrejse med sin hustru. Idyllen afbrydes dog hurtigt af et bilbombe-mord, som Vargas drages ind i opklaringen af. Det er starten på en omsiggribende kriminalintrige, hvor Vargas pludseligt befinder sig i et minefelt af magtmisbrug, korruption og ondskab.

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

Charlie Smith er grænsevagt ved Rio Grande. Han er indblandet i smugling og har overskredet grænsen adskillige gange. Han beslutter sig for at gøre bod og hjælpe en 'illegal' kvinde med at blive genforenet med sit barn. Det giver uforudsete udfordringer, og Charlie rager uklar med både sin korrupte afdeling, sin griske kone og sin skånselsløse nabo.

After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Den håbløst generte Turo hænger fast i en nordfinsk landsby. Det eneste lysglimt i hans liv er hans heavyband. Han og vennerne har spillet i 12 år uden at give en eneste koncert. Et tilfældigt møde med lederen af en norsk metalfestival giver dem dog blod på tanden. Det er nu eller aldrig! Så bandet stjæler en varevogn, et lig og en kiste fra den lokale kirkegård og sætter kurs mod Norge.

Maria er en succesrig direktør, der kæmper en kamp for at opnå sit højeste ønske - at sætte et barn i verden. Da hun halvvejs i sin graviditet endnu engang mister barnet, og efterfølgende af sin læge får at vide, at hun er blevet for gammel til at føde børn, styrter Marias verden sammen for hende. Maria kan ikke affinde sig med sin skæbne og ude af sig selv begiver hun sig afsted på en desperat og farefuld rejse i jagten på drømmen om hendes barn.

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan.

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the ocean to find there a better life. A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy parable on loss, loneliness and the power of imagination.

Col. Jack Knowles bliver sat til at bevogte grænsen mellem Tjekkiet og Vesttyskland. På den anden side af grænsen har vi Col. Valachev. Begge er krigsveteraner, begge er blevet gjort mere eller mindre unødvendige af Glasnost og afkølingen af den kolde krig, så da de to støder hovederne sammen eskalerer en lille konflikt hurtigt til noget, der er tættere på en krigstilstand!