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10 Best Movies Like Poor Folk

If you loved Poor Folk, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Borderline

Borderline

1980★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible ...

#2
Contraband

Contraband

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farrada...

#3
The Border

The Border

1982★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market....

#4
Paradise Highway

Paradise Highway

2022★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when t...

#5
Skin Trade

Skin Trade

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy th...

#6
Blind Mountain

Blind Mountain

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Folk for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope o...

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