Refugees movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant refugees movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, melancholic, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with refugee, hopes, survival, family relations, immigration, orphan, immigrant, society, life is a bitch and grief plots mostly in Drama, War and Thriller genres shot in France, Germany, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as refugees: Zaytoun (2012), Jupiter's Moon (2017), Orphans of a Nation (2019), In This World (2002), The Weeping Meadow (2004), Our Own (2004), Miral (2010), Journey from the Fall (2006), Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009), Mother of Mine (2005).
Best films
New films
| His House (2020) | 6.4 | |
| 1978 (2024) | 4.9 | |
| A World Apart (2024) | 6.4 | |
| Dragon Girl (2020) | 5.4 | |
| Jana - Marked For Life (2024) | 6.2 |
List of refugees movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
boy, friendship, refugee, battle zone, danger, military, military life, soldier, israeli, on the road, man boy relationship, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
middle east, palestine, beirut lebanon, lebanon
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary ...
Style:
art house
Plot:
levitation, supernatural, refugee, doctor, war refugee, syrian refugee, nudity, elevator, female nudity, terrorism, police, migrant ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
hungary, former yugoslavia, budapest
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new ...
Style:
novela, sincere, disturbing, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
refugee, fall in love, male female relationship, love, danger, couples, destiny, society, rescue, brother sister relationship, sapphic, lesbian ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style:
inspirational, bleak, sincere, road movie, political ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, politics, hopes, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, tehran iran, pakistan ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, tragic love, wartime life, on the run, genocide, political unrest, fall in love, politics, self discovery, exile, revolution ...
Time:
year 2004, 1920s, year 1945, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place:
greece, ancient greece, europe, ottoman empire
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, behind enemy lines, who to trust, danger, parents and children, pow, refugee, patriot, soldier, countryside, ransom, hiding place ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Style:
realistic, stylized, emotional, sentimental, breathtaking ...
Plot:
politics, orphan, hopes, arab, refugee, injustice, rebellion, human spirit, society, fall in love, idealism, rebelliousness ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, persia, palestinian authority ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, society, tragic hero, hopes, danger, military ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, california, indochina
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style:
realistic, period piece, sexy, talky, intense ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fashion, classical music, art, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 2009, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
news report, murder, misfit, social misfits, refugee, immigrant, breaking point, down on your luck, chess, mass murder, minimalism, puzzle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
austria, germany, vienna, lebanon, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, children, foster child, coming of age, loneliness, wartime, family relations, life is a bitch, wartime life, adoption, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
finland, poland, tokyo, japan, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, racism, boy, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, hopes, orphan, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s
Place:
africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In this bittersweet family comedy, shy teenager Libby moves back to Israel to live with her hapless father Shaul, unexpectedly finding herself without a home as war breaks out around them. Shaul devises a creative solution: posing as refugees, they ...
Style:
suspense, depressing, disturbing, serious
Plot:
teenage girl, open relationship, asthma, father daughter relationship, sexual awakening, refugee, lie, estranged father, danger, 13 year old, infidelity, father ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
israel, middle east, lebanon
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Coastliners puts the theme of “human rights” together with different stories, and consists of five short fiction films made by internationally acclaimed different directors. We accompany the personal effects of refugees washed ashore, the ...
Style:
anthology, poignant, melancholic, political, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, human rights, migration, social issues, survival, mother daughter relationship, identity, trauma, empathy, resilience, loss, alienation ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, middle east, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Style:
bleak, poignant, melancholic, grim, intense ...
Plot:
refugee, class conflict, moral dilemma, integrity, realism, family drama, sacrifice, betrayal, industrialization, honor, orphan, humanism ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
kolkata
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spanish-German TV movie based on a story about immigration. The youth drama directed and written by Sören Voigt arrival by canoe account of a group of African immigrants.
Style:
romantic drama, tension, tense, tragic
Plot:
refugee, coming of age, immigration, moral dilemma, illegal immigration, social issues, teen romance, young love, cross cultural relations, family conflict, father son relationship, social realism ...
Place:
spain, catalonia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Follow the story of the people who were expelled from Krajina in 1995 and the suffering of the Serb people in Croatia.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, historical drama, tragic
Plot:
refugee, grief, trauma, war crime, exodus, political conflict, human rights, survival, evacuation, identity crisis, nationalism, border crossing ...
Place:
balkan, croatia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Viza za budućnost was one of the first post-Independence Bosnian sitcoms. Production started on June 22, 2001 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The final episode was filmed in Sarajevo on August 25, 2008 and aired in October. Viza za budućnost ...
Style:
sitcom, captivating, psychological, social, thrilling ...
Plot:
social issues, post war, refugee, satire, family life, social problems, family drama, everyday life, social satire, multiculturalism, homecoming, humour ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Greece, Cyprus
TV show
Story:
A couple of young people (she 17 and he 19) lose their three-month-old baby on the day of the invasion. They themselves are forced to leave their place, at the same time losing all hope of finding their baby.
Style:
heartbreaking, emotional, intense
Plot:
refugee, loss, separation, invasion, trauma, grief, mourning, young couple, evacuation, child abduction, teenage pregnancy, political conflict ...
Place:
cyprus
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Germany in the not-too-distant future: The borders are closed, refugees are collected in camps and turned away or accepted. The mood is charged, a police detachment is responsible for keeping the crowd in check. Volt is one of the cops. He ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
police, civil unrest, ethical dilemma, dystopia, violence, refugee, guilt, police brutality, social commentary, xenophobia, moral ambiguity, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the ...
Style:
multicultural, tension, comedy drama, political
Plot:
refugee, eviction, abandoned building, immigration, homeless, homeless man, human rights, poverty, everyday life, activism, solidarity, social justice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot:
refugee, empathy, personal growth, immigration, divorce, healing, child protagonist, compassion, female protagonist, hopes, resilience, humanitarian ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Mankind is suffering the biggest exodus in history. Three billion people from the future have traveled to the present to escape from an imminent global disaster. All the refugees must obey to rules: they must not talk about the future and they must ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, travel, save the world, humanity, fate of humanity, rescue mission, back in time, time travel, changing the past or future, time jump, time traveler, time warp ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Syria
TV show
Story:
The series sheds light on the Palestinian issue, through the story of a Palestinian rural family in the 1930s, passing through many important events, until the setback of June 1967, and how the family members survived despite the dangers of war.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
occupation, conflict, islam, israeli, arab israeli conflict, refugee, social problems, wartime life, identity crisis, family bonds, diaspora, exile ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
palestine, middle east
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
Truck driver Erwin believes that he's helping people when he smuggles refugees, but shocking consequences follow a moment of distraction.
Style:
suspense, tension, serious, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
refugee, police, truck driver, choice, family man, small town, syrian refugee, smuggling, immigration, driver, town, family life ...
Place:
syria
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Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A doctor, a soldier, a smuggler, a father, and a captain. In a world divided by borders and war, five lives intersect in the pursuit of safety and belonging. Their journeys reveal the heartbreak and fragile beauty of those who dare to start over.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, political, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, kids and family, problem, dysfunctional family, hopes, sacrifice, migration, humanity ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Pakistan
TV show
Story:
Bano and her fiance face the trials and tribulations caused by the 1947 Indian partition.
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
muslim, hindu, politics, refugee, relationships, social problems, life is a bitch, family relations, social issues, family conflict, tragedy, loss ...
Time:
year 1947
Place:
pakistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war meant many communist fighters sought refuge in communist countries. Told through the eyes of ...
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, melancholic
Plot:
socialism, greek civil war, refugee, uncle nephew relationship, communism, immigration, bittersweet, humanist, family drama, identity, exile, cold war ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
czechoslovakia, greece
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain ...
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, emotional, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, post apocalypse, refugee, post apocalyptic, natural disaster, social commentary, global warming, climate change, survival, kaiju, diaspora, overpopulation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
asia
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