This study aims to examine the meanings of border embodied in two Border movies, and , both of which have been academically acclaimed. The movies explore the political, historical and social influences of racial, ethnic, sexual and cultural differences in the border region of US-Mexico. John Sayles and Maria Novaro, the directors deploy the border or border crossing as a visual argument to reveal the arbitrariness, controversy and bloodiness deeply embedded in many official demarcations, which have exerted oppressive power to multifarious aspects of life in the border area. They implicitly contest a triumphalistic view of the border as a liberatory space in Border theories and Chicano writing that some recent scholars have begun to call into question. Aligned with this challenging view, the study attempts to analyze the narratives and visual representation of border so as to show how each film carves out the political and philosophical implications of border crossing in the very specific geopolitical site of the border cities such as La Frontera(imaginary )and Tijuana(real).