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Amazon Prime Video
88
8.8
/883051/
85
/13648/
84
/9376/
4.5
/671828/
97
/76/
97
/11688/
90
/7/
cc age 15+

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
poster
87
7.9
/21004/
78
/845/
77
/381/
4.2
/82106/
98
/198/
89
/66/
91
/33/
cc age 14+

Flee (2021)
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
poster
85
8.0
/22189/
80
/300/
78
/234/
4.2
/19730/
87
/71/
93
/687/
85
/31/

Turtles Can Fly (2005)
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
poster
84
7.9
/5021/
78
/299/
77
/58/
4.0
/10560/
100
/58/
99
/44/
85
/16/

Beyond Utopia (2023)
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.
poster
MGM Plus
84
8.1
/389904/
79
/6316/
77
/3060/
3.9
/134504/
91
/188/
94
/12274/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
poster
84
8.4
/122225/
83
/2725/
81
/1906/
4.2
/119523/
90
/181/
93
/194/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.2
/25171/
72
/481/
70
/466/
3.9
/31629/
99
/98/
75
/324/
82
/26/

Le Havre (2011)
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
poster
Kanopy
80
6.4
/7691/
71
/176/
73
/117/
4.0
/14515/
94
/94/
75
/10/
90
/29/

Green Border (2023)
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.2
/2895/
76
/139/
68
/71/
3.7
/3650/
91
/117/
81
/22/
77
/22/

Human Flow (2017)
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.
poster
Netflix
79
7.7
/90749/
76
/3744/
76
/1830/
4.0
/93216/
91
/149/
92
/543/
79
/30/
cc age 18+

Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
poster
77
7.3
/1047/
66
/22/
71
/9/
3.8
/7008/
98
/55/
84
/16/

To a Land Unknown (2025)
Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.1
/14065/
72
/608/
72
/382/
3.5
/40406/
82
/96/
79
/49/
69
/23/
cc age 15+

The Old Oak (2023)
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
poster
Kanopy
81
77
7.7
/13565/
74
/240/
78
/561/
3.9
/14650/
88
/8/
92
/147/

Two Women (1960)
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
poster
76
7.1
/1290/
71
/102/
69
/19/
3.5
/3838/
97
/34/
89
/9/
69
/7/

The Donut King (2020)
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.
poster
76
7.2
/5794/
71
/222/
69
/116/
3.9
/19520/
93
/122/
55
/19/
83
/26/
cc age 14+

Limbo (2020)
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
poster
Netflix
74
7.4
/39972/
73
/1303/
74
/623/
3.7
/65313/
82
/62/
84
/62/
62
/15/
cc age 14+

The Swimmers (2022)
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
poster
Netflix
74
6.4
/53901/
65
/2823/
64
/1194/
3.4
/170425/
100
/127/
72
/296/
72
/19/
cc age 16+

His House (2020)
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
poster
74
6.8
/7262/
67
/69/
63
/88/
3.5
/2839/
89
/100/
75
/197/
76
/28/

Kandahar (2001)
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.4
/35340/
74
/1142/
74
/567/
3.5
/9658/
84
/89/
82
/410/
65
/30/
cc age 13+

The Good Lie (2014)
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
poster
73
9.1
/10043/
65
/15/
80
/1/
3.4
/2330/
75
/20/
82
/43/

I Was a Stranger (2026)
A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.
poster
MUBI
73
8.0
/167376/
76
/2996/
78
/2610/
4.2
/186092/
70
/163/
89
/3415/
61
/39/

Dogville (2003)
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
poster
73
7.3
/11488/
72
/265/
69
/198/
3.6
/3287/
88
/114/
81
/229/
74
/36/

In Darkness (2011)
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).
poster
81
72
8.3
/10679/
77
/90/
76
/48/
4.1
/8022/
80
/5/
93
/90/

Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
poster
72
7.0
/20100/
71
/910/
68
/424/
3.4
/11206/
86
/14/
69
/476/

The Day After (1983)
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
poster
71
6.7
/2611/
60
/28/
60
/21/
3.4
/340/
80
/25/
85
/35/
79
/23/

Beautiful People (1999)
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
poster
70
6.4
/781/
74
/7/
54
/10/
82
/17/
74
/7/

Broken English (1996)
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.
poster
Netflix
70
6.3
/2230/
71
/177/
62
/62/
3.0
/658/
95
/19/
72
/81/
63
/7/
cc age 8+

All Saints (2017)
Michael Spurlock decides to trade in his corporate sales career to become a pastor. Unfortunately, his first assignment is to close a country church and sell the prime piece of land where it sits. He soon has a change of heart when the church starts to welcome refugees from Burma. Spurlock now finds himself working with the refugees to turn the land into a working farm to pay the church's bills.
poster
Kanopy
75
70
7.5
/7803/
73
/185/
72
/254/
3.6
/4316/
87
/30/
86
/148/
61
/7/

Welcome (2009)
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.2
/1862/
73
/74/
71
/56/
3.5
/896/
71
/31/
80
/13/
60
/11/

The Invisibles (2017)
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
poster
73
68
7.1
/11706/
68
/188/
69
/162/
3.4
/10166/
83
/30/
80
/247/
74
/11/

Woman of the Year (1942)
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.1
/767/
60
/20/
60
/14/
3.5
/300/
75
/7/
6.3
/430/

The Boat Is Full (1981)
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?
poster
76
67
7.6
/3705/
75
/169/
72
/101/
3.9
/5156/
7.9
/24867/

Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984)
It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.
poster
67
6.6
/17921/
64
/439/
61
/423/
3.5
/28536/
69
/154/
54
/27/
72
/30/

Happy End (2017)
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
poster
66
6.5
/3516/
65
/43/
58
/72/
3.3
/1152/
74
/61/
60
/70/
70
/27/

Strayed (2003)
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
poster
85
64
8.1
/1209/
81
/20/
78
/28/
4.2
/8386/
100
/45/
97
/69/
78
/12/

All That's Left of You (2025)
In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.
poster
Netflix
70
63
6.7
/4785/
71
/322/
73
/150/
3.3
/15678/
57
/7/
85
/27/
cc age 15+

My Name Is Loh Kiwan (2024)
After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.
poster
Netflix
75
63
7.0
/3722/
73
/129/
66
/110/
3.5
/4241/
94
/16/
80
/19/
77
/5/
cc age 16+

And Breathe Normally (2018)
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.8
/3602/
69
/67/
73
/54/
4.0
/6735/
86
/38/

The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
poster
77
61
8.1
/5595/
78
/88/
72
/35/
3.9
/5943/

Sudani from Nigeria (2018)
When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
poster
Kanopy
61
6.6
/136777/
69
/3929/
68
/2539/
3.1
/40950/
34
/154/
69
/4060/
48
/36/
cc age 17+

Tears of the Sun (2003)
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
5.7
/1178/
64
/91/
54
/25/
3.3
/409/
67
/36/
46
/2/
56
/6/
cc age 14+

The Flood (2019)
Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interrogation, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum.
poster
79
58
7.7
/2055/
69
/63/
74
/32/
3.7
/677/
92
/37/
88
/47/
79
/25/
cc age 14+

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
56
7.0
/4606/
66
/61/
72
/45/
3.4
/3827/
60

More (2017)
Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can't help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human suffering. Can you avoid becoming a monster when you've been raised by one? Onur Saylak's debut feature, adapted from the award-winning novel of the same title by Hakan Günday, one of the first novels to document the refugee crisis in Europe, "More" is the gripping story of a boy that gets to grow up in a world where there's no room for innocence.
poster
55
6.7
/1040/
52
/11/
64
/36/
3.5
/536/

The Secret (1974)
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?
poster
55
6.0
/2949/
55
/36/
52
/33/
3.2
/468/
45
/60/
36
/27/
57
/31/

Up at the Villa (2000)
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
poster
The Roku Channel
66
53
6.7
/5995/
68
/205/
67
/133/
3.2
/4528/
68
/14/

Combat Girls (2011)
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.
poster
Netflix
72
53
6.5
/2275/
68
/179/
65
/88/
3.3
/4918/
100
/5/
72
/6/

Life Overtakes Me (2019)
Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
poster
69
48
7.0
/2791/
71
/49/
68
/29/
3.6
/4352/
69
/30/

Come Live with Me (1941)
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.


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