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.

The Donut King

2020

English

7.1

♡ 3

97%

Alice Gu Director

Daewon Song as Self

Chuong Pek Lee as Self

Susan Lim as Self

Ted Ngoy as Self

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

Air America

1990

English

5.8

♡ 26

12%

34%

Action

airplane

central intelligence agency (cia)

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Robert Downey Jr. as Billy

Mel Gibson as Gene

Art LaFleur as Jack Neely

Marshall Bell as O.V.

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, 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.

Refugee

2018

English

7.3

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

european refugee crisis

refugee camp

refugee crisis

syrian refugee

Alexander J. Farrell Director

Rasha Abousalem as Self

Moustapha Ahmad as Self

Ahmed Alali as Self

Hamoudi Alali as Self

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 from Syria to Germany.

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

2021

Arabic

7.7

♡ 13

100%

struggle for survival

war documentary

Abdallah Al-Khatib Director

Abdallah Al-Khatib as Self

During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.

La voluntaria

2022

Catalan

6.2

♡ 1

Nely Reguera Director

Yannis Tsortekis as

Filippos Filoglou as

Itsaso Arana as Caro

Carmen Machi as Marisa

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.

Sisters Apart

2020

German

5.8

♡ 3

Daphne Charizani Director

Christoph Letkowski as Alex

Maryam Boubani as Ferhat

Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Fuhrmann

Lucas Prisor as Tim

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.

Before It Ends

2023

Danish

7.0

♡ 6

Anders Walter Director

Peter Kurth as Heinrich

Pilou Asbæk as Jacob

Ronald Kukulies as Kommandant Hertzog

Ulrich Thomsen as Lauritz

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 an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?

Beasts of the Southern Wild

2012

English

7.2

♡ 31

87%

76%

Action

Adventure

based on play or musical

Benh Zeitlin Director

Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy

Levy Easterly as Jean Battiste

Jonshel Alexander as Joy Strong

Kaliana Brower as T-Lou

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.

In a Better World

2010

Danish

7.6

♡ 16

77%

Susanne Bier Director

Mikael Persbrandt as Anton

Ulrich Thomsen as Claus

Kim Bodnia as Lars

Wil Johnson as Najeeb

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.

The Red Sea Diving Resort

2019

English

6.6

♡ 161

27%

77%

Action

based on a true story

Gideon Raff Director

Chris Evans as Ari Levinson

Ben Kingsley as Ethan Levin

Haley Bennett as Rachel Reiter

Alona Tal as Sarah Levinson

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 raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.

A World Not Ours

2012

Arabic

7.9

♡ 3

100%

Mahdi Fleifel Director

Mahdi Fleifel as (voice)

An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.

Hotel Rwanda

2004

English

8.1

♡ 120

91%

Terry George Director

Joaquin Phoenix as Jack Daglish

Neil McCarthy as Jean Jacques

Jean Reno as Mr. Tillens - Sabena Airlines President

Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina

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.