Lamerica

Detective Carlos crossed the border three times that night, but never with the same passport. Gino and Fiore are two Italian con men who arrive in post-communist Albania, seeing only easy money and desperate people. They plan to set up a fake company, but their arrogant scheme unravels in a land of crumbling roads and profound poverty. Their search for a helpless figurehead becomes a disorienting journey into a nation’s soul, where the hunter and the prey slowly change places. Gianni Amelio’s 1994 drama is a stark, road-movie parable about exploitation, identity, and the shattered dream of a better life just across the water.