Deportation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant deportation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sincere and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with deportation, society, hopes, life is a bitch, immigrant, family relations, politics, culture clash, death and love plots mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as deportation: In the Crosswind (2014), Hidden Away (2014), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), The Chronicles of Melanie (2016), Crossing Over (2009), The Cut (2014), Lost Birds (2015), Last Call for Nowhere (2016), White People (2015).
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
stalinism, deportation, world war two, wartime life, hunger, ethnic cleansing, separation from family, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, danger, family relations ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay love, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay teenager, gay youth, gay slur, gay romance, closeted gay, friendship between boys, teenage life, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, motivational ...
Plot:
child abuse, deportation, social worker, against the odds, uncover truth, fighting the system, injustice, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, rebellion, family reunited ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, australia, europe, south australia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, disturbing, rough, black and white ...
Plot:
deportation, world war two, gulag, survival, labor camp, politics, cruelty, grief, political prisoner, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1957, 1950s, year 1941, 50s
Place:
latvia, soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
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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:
realistic, serious, political, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
culture clash, illegal alien, extramarital affair, illegal immigrant, female nudity, deportation, society, social differences, state affairs, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, bangladesh, tijuana mexico, san diego california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Style:
sexy, exciting, tense, suspense, factual ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, genocide, turkish history, refugee, world war one, diaspora, deportation, mute, charlie chaplin, odyssey, mass murder, blacksmith ...
Time:
year 1915, year 2014, 1910s
Place:
ottoman empire, armenia, turkey, north dakota
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
children, deportation, brother sister relationship, search for mother, loss, social issues, family relations, search for father, social misfits, social problems, life is a bitch, travel ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot:
deportation, mistaken identity, fish out of water, refugee, foe turned friend, disorder, stereotypes, reluctant partners, social relations, social commentary, immigration, bureaucracy ...
Place:
france, malta
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Style:
psychological, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
deportation, prison, escape, freedom, illegal immigrant, female prisoner, female protagonist, prisoner, self sacrifice, escape attempt, immigration, social injustice ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at ...
Style:
feel good, thought provoking, romantic, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, deportation, chance meeting, first love, love story, romanticism, time jump, emigrant, passion, immigration, childhood memory, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him ...
Style:
crying, masala, entertaining, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot:
redemption, deportation, woman in jeopardy, courage, showdown, frame up, crime boss, criminal, tough cop, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, acid, injustice ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed ...
Style:
realistic, political, melancholic, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
labor union, immigrant, politics, working class, janitor, relationships, deportation, fighting the system, working conditions, attorney, cleaning lady, union ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico city, tijuana mexico, guatemala ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, visually stunning, grim, mind twisting ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, life philosophy, escape, prison break, runaway, prison life, jail, protector, human spirit, escape attempt, escape plan ...
Time:
year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 70s
Place:
south america, persia, guyana, latin america, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrant, life is a bitch, hopes, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, self discovery, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, mistaken identity, deportation, weed, farce, adaptation, lone hero, twists and turns, fish out of water, dishonesty, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, tijuana mexico, california
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, hispanic ...
Plot:
subculture, gang, deportation, immigrant, alienation, gang war, immigration, war on drugs, party, homeless, loneliness, teenager ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Romania, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Style:
humorous, sad, surprise ending, feel good, road movie ...
Plot:
holocaust, train, nazi, world war two, shoah, judaism, deportation, great ending, railway, wartime life, bittersweet, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, year 1941
Place:
eastern europe, germany, palestine, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two Americans find that smuggling illegal immigrants into the country is more lucrative than a regular job.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
border patrol, best friend, deportation, heroes, immigrant, partner, dishonesty, misfit, greed, illegal immigration, desert, mexican american border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, arizona, latin america, tucson arizona
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, budapest, italy, spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, anti semitism, deportation, immigrant, idealism, heroic mission, against humanity, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
europe, belgrade, vienna, harvard university, chicago ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, where he worked as a dishwasher in the restaurant of a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, crying
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, deportation, immigrant, restaurant, eccentric family, love affair, family problems, estrangement, working class, parents and children, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, shanghai
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
teenage prostitute, young lovers, sex scene, forced prostitution, longing, nubile girl, illegal immigrant, poverty, deportation, love affair, gang, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
New York attorney Libby (Juliette Lewis) is a go-getter who won't let anyone stand in the way of her success. But when she accepts a pro bono case involving young Afghan dissident Meena (Layla Alizada), Libby finds her corporate dreams replaced ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, disturbing, touching, informative ...
Plot:
fighting the system, deportation, courtroom drama, rebellion, injustice, legal, hopes, hotshot lawyer, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, politics ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, bangladesh, new york, pakistan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the 1930s political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the 'Red Scare'.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, touching, political ...
Plot:
anti communism, rebellion, politics, catholic priest, priest, fighting the system, deportation, idealism, rebelliousness, social relations, injustice, clergy ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2014, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
ireland, new york
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Style:
captivating, serious, adult animation, sexual, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jazz, lovers apart, pianist, young lovers, love affair, desire, music, follow your dream, lifestyle, musician's life, deportation, youth ...
Time:
2010s, year 1948, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
cuba, paris france, las vegas, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Style:
psychological, factual, disturbing, talky, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
biopic, sex with teenager, justice, rape of a minor, artist, investigation, judge, betrayal, twists and turns, mentor, tragedy, manipulation ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
europe, usa, santa monica california, poland, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Style:
depressing, philosophical, touching, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, life, professor, destiny, loneliness, self discovery, friendship, jazz, arrest, lawyer, midlife crisis, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, connecticut, michigan, senegal, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
immigrant, deportation, youth, society, family relations, illegal alien, slacker, rock musician, little girl, hopes, young heroes, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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