refugee camp movies

Liberation (2023)
7.333 / 10

Drama, History, War

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...

Children of Men (2006)
7.611 / 10

Drama, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

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...

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
7.715 / 10

Drama, History, War

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...

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
6.837 / 10

Drama, Thriller, History

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

Air America (1990)
5.8 / 10

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for...

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
6.538 / 10

Comedy, Drama, History

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...

The Day After (1983)
6.685 / 10

Science Fiction, Drama, TV Movie

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue...

In a Better World (2010)
7.1 / 10

Drama

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

Live and Become (2005)
7.474 / 10

Drama

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...

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
6.815 / 10

Drama, Fantasy

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...

Sisters Apart (2021)
6 / 10

Drama, War

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...

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...

Last Call for Nowhere (2016)
5.7 / 10

Comedy

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,...

Haifa (1995)
5.8 / 10

Drama, War

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,...

Sounds of Sand (2007)
6.1 / 10

Drama, War

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....

Opération Turquoise (2007)
7 / 10

War, Drama

Draussen bleiben (2007)
0 / 10

Documentary

The Volunteer (2022)
5.3 / 10

Drama

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....

The Weather Inside (2015)
4.7 / 10

Drama

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...

The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)
2.8 / 10

Drama

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a...