Humanitarian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant humanitarian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, touching, emotional, independent film and crying films and TV shows about / with humanitarian, hospital, death, husband wife relationship, family relations, hopes, danger, doctor, life is a bitch and children plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as humanitarian: The Last Face (2016), A Perfect Day (2015), Dragonfly (2002), The White Knights (2015), Ego Trip (2015), Anbe Sivam (2003), Tomorrow Ever After (2016), One Life (2023), Francesco (1989), Maestro (2023).

List of humanitarian movies

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The Last Face (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.
Style: intense, emotional, serious, suspense, non-linear
Plot: doctor, female nudity, love, riot, shooting, life is a bitch, social problems, volunteer, women, world war, civil war, medical profession ...
Time: year 2014, year 2003, year 1982
Place: africa, south africa, sierra leone, cape town south africa, geneva switzerland ...
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 6.8
 23K
A Perfect Day (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Film about a group of aid workers trying to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans.
Style: political, cynical, melancholic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: volunteer, war zone, soldier, aid worker, translator, world politics, bosnian war, ethnic conflict, war, life philosophy, landmine, un ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, balkan
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 6.1
 40K
Dragonfly (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: afterlife, hospital, supernatural, doctor, supernatural ability, medical, death, lovers apart, dealing with death, ghost, destiny, grief ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, colombia, venezuela
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The White Knights (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, sincere, social
Plot: children, rescue, child in peril, orphan, journalism, danger, life is a bitch, wartime life, child care, humanitarian, adoption, camp ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
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Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Dr Prakash Baba Amte : The Real Hero is a Marathi film on biopic of Dr. Prakash Amte featuring actors like Nana Patekar and Sonali Kulkarni.
Style: touching, tense, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, animal lover, doctor, police brutality, medical student, fall in love, marriage, sexploitation, rapist, accidental killing, affection, compassion ...
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 5.5
 268
Ego Trip (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with his family. In an effort to regain the love and respect of his audience, Marc’s agent decides to ...
Plot: abduction, third world, hypocrisy, egoism, talk show host, humanitarian, egocentrism, ransom demand
Place: haiti
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 8.6
 25K
Anbe Sivam (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Nalla Sivam and Anbarasu meet under different circumstances and their lives are changed as they take the journey of their life.
Style: serious, realistic, experimental, talky, feel good ...
Plot: life changing experience, communism, atheism, odd couple, accident, introspection, self discovery, social differences, tragic love, terrorism, fall in love, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Tomorrow Ever After (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel ...
Style: satirical, captivating, psychological
Plot: time travel, social issues, time loop, time machine, time warp, social problems, satire, time traveler, time jump, history lesson, social commentary, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
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 7.6
 9K
One Life (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Plot: world war two, jewish history, nazi occupation, nazi germany, jewish family, little girl, flashback, swimming pool, baby, train, restaurant, photograph ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century, 1940s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
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 6.3
 2K
Francesco (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to ...
Style: emotional, serious, bleak, factual, cult classic ...
Plot: saint, religion, monk, historical event, medieval, male nudity, clergy, hopes, religions or cults, society, starting over, christian ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1989, 13th century, 12th century
Place: italy, europe
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 6.6
 53K
Maestro (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Style: lgbt cinema, crying
Plot: marriage, gay, actress, cigarette smoking, composer, love, lgbt, train conductor, bisexual man, portrait, bisexual, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1955, year 1978, 20th century, year 1946
Place: new york
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 6.7
 24K
Crossing Over (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, ...
Style: serious, realistic, political, emotional, intense ...
Plot: culture clash, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, illegal alien, illegal immigrant, deportation, immigrant, social differences, society, female nudity, interracial relations, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, bangladesh, southern california, tijuana mexico ...
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 7.0
 53K
Soul Surfer (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.Bethany ...
Style: christian film, touching, uplifting, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: surfing, christian, disability, human spirit, shark, teenager, against the odds, surfer, shark attack, survivor, volunteer, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, thailand
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 8.0
 680K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, groundhog day, winter, time travel, time warp, time, life philosophy, redemption, fall in love, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, persia, america, pittsburgh
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The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story: The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. ...
Style: christmas classics, christmas special
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, stop motion, xmas, christmas wish, peasant, immortal, lion, flying, immortality, mortality ...
Time: middle ages
Place: japan
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Best Intentions (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New feature film by Gilles Legrand
Plot: emigrant, photography, male pubic hair, nudity, cycling, family relations, husband wife relationship, husband wife conflict, driving instructor, driving school, video game, prostitution ...
Place: paris france
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 1.8
 407
Maple Palm (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A lesbian couple of fifteen years lives with the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. With no legal way to protect their relationship, the couple lives in fear of deportation. After an innocent visit to the Statue of Liberty, the girls return ...
Style: avant garde, sincere, touching, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, female homosexuality, illegal immigrant, lesbianism, unconditional love, secret, border patrol, u.s. canadian border, hidden identity, sexuality, dark secret ...
Place: los angeles, montreal, vancouver, venice california, pacific ocean ...
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 7.0
 9K
The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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Parker's Anchor (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Krystal Parker's life fell apart when she discovered she couldn't have children. Everything she knew was gone, - but Letting Go Is Just The Beginning.
Plot: family relations, mother daughter relationship, adoption, humanitarian, infertility
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Alone: The Only Thing to Fear Is Yourself (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In today's world options are not running out, they are running away and we can't keep up. To be cutting edge today, one must hold their mind together when it simply feels as if it will explode. In the mind itself there are different parts ...
Style: spiritual, mystical
Plot: integrity, freezing, reptile, self-help, life, journey, humanity, witness, justice, guru, fight, humanitarian ...
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How Good the Whites Are (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ya bon les blancs depicts a fiercely farcical fable-like vision from Ferreri’s typically ruthless perspective where naïve white liberals attempt to give starving African spaghetti and tomato sauce as aid, ugly Italians attempt boning bloated ...
Style: grotesque
Plot: anthropophagus, aid worker, racism, colonialism, partisan, convoy, humanitarian, mozart, post colonialism, european, caravan, sacrifice ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa, north africa, morocco
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style: contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, genocide, politics, rescue, nazi, holocaust, world war, revolutionary war, diplomacy, judaism, revolutionary, israeli ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
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The Omega Code (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this spiritual thriller, an ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of Apocalypse. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien) is a expert on theology and mythology who has gained international fame as a ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, christian film ...
Plot: christian, good versus evil, religious, religion, destiny, heroes, heroic mission, save the world, society, danger, escapades, chaos ...
Time: year 1999, 21st century
Place: rome italy, israel, middle east, italy, palestine ...
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
Style: inspirational, heroic, realistic, touching, biblical ...
Plot: lone hero, gunfight, christian, christianity, religion, civil war, children, child in peril, atrocity, protector, army, biopic ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2003, 21st century
Place: uganda, africa, sudan, pennsylvania
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 3K
Lost Horizon (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, stylized, exciting, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: utopia, aviation, dancing, lost world, airplane crash, explorer, kidnapping, hijacking, revolution, clergy, artists and showbiz, escapades ...
Place: himalaya, china, asia, oxford university, southeast asia ...
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 5.8
 4K
Jack's Back (1988)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
Style: slasher, detective, sexy, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, murder of a prostitute, prostitute, doppelganger, serial murder, evil twin, lookalikes, whodunit, erotica, teenager, name calling ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 453
Christmas Eve (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, aging, new year's eve, mother son conflict, chambermaid, christmas spirit, humanitarian ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 29K
Beyond Borders (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: charity, unfaithful wife, un, war, abroad, love, brutality, corruption, survival, starvation, surgery, life & death ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 90s, year 1988, year 1989 ...
Place: africa, cambodia, london, england, europe ...
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Florence Nightingale (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who ...
Style: inspirational, costume drama, captivating, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: medicine, trailblazer, medieval, 007, soldier, hospital, nursing, biopic, reform, human spirit, hopes, fighting the system ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s, 1850s
Place: england, europe, turkey
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 43K
The Gunman (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his ...
Style: intense, suspense, exciting, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, chase, hitman, agent as target, gangster, gunfight, undercover, danger, conspiracy, home invasion, betrayal, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006, year 2014, 21st century
Place: south africa, europe, barcelona, london, africa
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