Movies like la misma luna

Under the Same Moon (Spanish: La misma luna) is a 2007 Mexican-American drama film in Spanish and English directed by Patricia Riggen and starring Adrián Alonso, Kate del Castillo, and Eugenio Derbez.

The film tells the story of Rosario, a single mother who crosses while undocumented to the United States, and leaves behind her nine-year-old son, Carlitos. Rosario and Carlitos have not seen each other in four years, since Carlitos was five. Rosario, now living in Los Angeles, California, calls her son (who is still in Mexico) every Sunday at 10 A.M. from a payphone. Rosario describes the area around the payphone to Carlitos by saying that there is a laundromat, a mural, and a Domino's Pizza. Carlitos lives in a small Mexican village with his ill grandmother, who takes care of him, and next door to his repressive aunt and uncle, named Josefina and Manuel, who try to take custody of him in order to get their hands on the money that Rosario sends to Carlitos' grandmother every week. One day, while working for a woman named Doña Carmen, Carlitos encounters two American immigrant transporters (coyotes), Martha and David, who offer to smuggle small children and babies across the border.