refugee crisis movies

Happy End (2017)
6.156 / 10

Drama

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...

Green Border (2023)
7.6 / 10

Drama

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and...

The Flood (2019)
5.3 / 10

Drama

Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants....

Retrograde (2022)
7.1 / 10

Documentary, War, History

The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan...

Coyote (2024)
0 / 10

Science Fiction, Thriller

A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future where teleportation technology enables two refugees to escape genocide. When they trust the wrong...

More (2017)
7.4 / 10

Drama, Crime

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...

Sea Sorrow (2017)
5.3 / 10

Documentary

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where...

Refugee Poetry (2016)
10 / 10

Adventure, Documentary, War, Drama

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers...

L'Aventure (2021)
10 / 10

Documentary

In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cross the passes on foot, risking their lives....

Mission Congo (2013)
7 / 10

Documentary

A documentary that examines whether a charity organized by Pat Robertson to aid Rwandan genocide refugees was a front for diamond mining.

Welcome to Norway! (2016)
6.2 / 10

Drama, Comedy

A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.

Matar (2023)
0 / 10

Drama, Documentary

The story of an asylum seeker in England who, when confronted with the hostile immigration system in the UK, is forced to live on the fringes of...

Český Alláh (2018)
6 / 10

Documentary

One of Many (2019)
0 / 10

Drama, Animation

Told in a very abstract and poetic way, this love story – set in very unusual circumstances – is inspired by the refugee crisis, in which...

Damage (2022)
0 / 10

Drama

Ali is not a citizen. He drives a taxi using another man’s license and relies on the GPS to negotiate his way around a city he doesn’t know. His...

Volunteer (2020)
10 / 10

Documentary

A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders....

Warehoused (2017)
0 / 10

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....

Un jour ça ira (2018)
8.3 / 10

Documentary

Djibi and Ange, two teenagers living on the streets, arrive at the Archipel, an emergency shelter in the heart of Paris. This documentary is a look...

Refugee (2018)
9 / 10

Documentary

A harrowing account of Europe's migrant crisis. A family of Syrian refugees separated by the borders of Europe, fight to be reunited as they migrant...

It Will be Chaos (2018)
7 / 10

Documentary

Part road-movie and part intimate portrait of lives in transit, IT WILL BE CHAOS unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor, intercutting two...