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Children of Men(2006)

3.8/5 (with 3,288 votes)

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Charlie Wilson's War(2007)

R
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 641 votes)

The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.

Sisters Apart(2021)

1h 34min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.

Hotel Rwanda(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 1min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 1,239 votes)

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.

Air America(1990)

R
| 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 247 votes)

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 470 votes)

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Happy End(2017)

R
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 166 votes)

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.

In a Better World(2010)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 180 votes)

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Last Call for Nowhere(2016)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 123 votes)

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 terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!

Live and Become(2005)

NR
| 2h 20min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

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.

Sounds of Sand(2007)

1h 36min | Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

The Weather Inside(2015)

1h 40min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.

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Opération Turquoise(2007)

1h 55min | War, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Alain Tasma

Before It Ends(2023)

1h 30min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The film is inspired by true events and depicts a sensitive chapter in the history of Denmark: The handling of approximately 250.000 German refugees who came to Denmark right before the country´s liberation in the spring of 1945. When a Folk High School is turned into an internment camp for 500 German refugees, the headmaster family is thrust into an impossible dilemma. Should they go against the Danes´ anti-German sentiment and help the refugees – or stand firm in the resistance against the Germans?

Directed by Anders Walter - With Pilou Asbæk, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Ulrich Thomsen, Morten Hee Andersen, Peter Kurth, Jens Jørn Spottag, ...

Cinema Dadaab(2018)

58min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In one of the world's largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab, the inhabitans survive by watching films and dreaming. The refugees cannot leave the camp, but they let their minds escape the harsh reality: by going to the simple cinema hall run by Abdikafi Mohamed, the film's protagonist.

Directed by Kati Juurus

The Volunteer(2022)

1h 39min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Marisa, a recently retired doctor, decides to travel as a volunteer to a Greek refugee camp where, in her opinion, they need people exactly like her. When she gets there, it becomes clear that she is nothing like the other volunteers. When she meets little Ahmed, the boundaries between the need to care and the need to feel useful begin to blur.

Directed by Nely Reguera - With Carmen Machi, Itsaso Arana, Dèlia Brufau i Centelles, Yohan Lévy

Haifa(1995)

1h 15min
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.

Sea Sorrow(2017)

1h 14min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past and present establish a dialogue. A reflection on the importance of human rights.

Directed by Vanessa Redgrave - With Ralph Fiennes

The Donut King(2020)

1h 34min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry -- the doughnut.

Directed by Alice Gu - With Ted Ngoy, Chuong Pek Lee, Susan Lim, Mayly Tao, Daewon Song

What the Wind Took Away(2017)

1h 15min | Documentary

"We, the Yazidis, became doves. Doves without wings", says Hedil. Stranded with her family in a Yazidi refugee camp in Eastern Turkey, she reminisces about her former life in Northern Iraq and recounts the horrors of her escape. The film follows two families' attempts at normality in an otherwise miserable place. (ML)

Salam Neighbor(2015)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Two Americans deliberately head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 80,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp.

Directed by Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci

The Dream(1987)

45min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre.

Directed by Mohammad Malas

Wandering, a Rohingya Story(2021)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. Out of sight, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar in 2017 to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Prisoners of a major yet little publicized humanitarian crisis, Kalam, Mohammad, Montas and other exiles want to make their voice heard. Between poetry and nightmares, food distribution and soccer games, they testify to their daily realities and the ghosts of their past memories. Around them, the spectre of wandering, waiting, disappearing. In this place almost out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?

Directed by Olivier Higgins, Mélanie Carrier

Warehoused(2017)

1h 12min | Documentary

An estimated 12 million people live in refugee camps worldwide and only 0.1% are resettled, repatriated, or integrated into normal society each year. The feature-length documentary.

Future Left Behind(2004)

1h 11min | Drama, War

Samad is a 14-year-old boy, living in a refugee camp in Imishli. After blacking out in the forest, he finds himself in the midst of the Nagorno-Karabakh War that happened ten years ago.

Directed by Rüfat Asadov - With Fuad Poladov, Azerin

Calais: The Last Border(2003)

59min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets. Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, trying to make money against the odds.

Life on the Border(2015)

1h 13min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The fate of thousands of people is unified under the tarpaulins of the refugee camps in Kobanê and in Shingal. Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi has given eight children the opportunity to use a camera to tell their own stories. Each film gives us a glimpse into the plight of the children, as seen through their own eyes. Their stories tell of young people with their whole lives ahead of them, though they’ve already lost almost everything. At a certain point, the film crew leaves the camp and follows the 13-year-old Mahmod and his sister in the search for his parent‘s house in Kobanê. The town has been ravaged by the war and all the children find is rubble. The eight films reveal the courage and openness of the young filmmakers, who share their stories with great intensity, realism and poetry, despite their harsh fate.

Another Kind of Girl(2016)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Filmed during a media workshop for Syrian girls in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp, 17-year-old Khaldiya meditates on how the camp has opened up new horizons and given her a sense of courage that she lacked in Syria.

Directed by Khaldiya Jibawi

Land of empty promises(2022)

- No description / details available yet. -

Draussen bleiben(2007)

1h 24min | Documentary

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Alexander Riedel
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