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7.2

♡ 31

91%

Ai Weiwei Director

Israa Abboud as Herself

Ai Weiwei as Himself

Peter Bouckaert as Himself Amir

Amir as Himself

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.

Woman of the Year

1942

7.1

♡ 7

83%

George Stevens Director

Reginald Owen as Clayton

Murdock MacQuarrie as Head Copy Reader

William Bendix as 'Pinkie' Peters

Cy Schindell as Pinkie's Listener in Bar

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

His House

2020

post traumatic stress disorder

6.4

♡ 51

100%

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

parent child relationship

supernatural

Thriller

Remi Weekes Director

Emily Taaffe as Dr. Hayes

Gamba Cole as George

Matt Smith as Mark

Wunmi Mosaku as Rial

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

Two Women

1960

Italian

7.7

♡ 13

88%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sophia Loren as Cesira

Carlo Ninchi as Filippo, il padre di Michele

Raf Vallone as Giovanni

Curt Lowens as Ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Welcome

2009

French

7.5

♡ 3

87%

Philippe Lioret Director

Frank Hewetson as Garde-côte

Firat Çelik as Koban

Olivier Rabourdin as Lieutenant Caratini

Vincent Lindon as Simon Calmat

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais

Beasts of No Nation

2015

7.7

♡ 101

91%

92%

Action

africa

based on novel or book

Cary Joji Fukunaga Director

Abraham Attah as Agu

Idris Elba as Commandant

Jude Akuwudike as Supreme Commander Dada Goodblood

Nana Mensah as Young Girl

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

The Perfect Story

2022

7.1

♡ 2

Michelle Shephard Director

The Perfect Story offers a riveting, intimate look at the ethical and moral challenges sparked by the relationship between a foreign correspondent and a young Somali refugee. By revealing the boundaries of journalism and filmmaking, the film questions what stories are told, why, and who gets to tell them.

Green Border

Polish

6.4

♡ 5

94%

european refugee crisis

refugee crisis

refugees

Agnieszka Holland Director

Magdalena Poplawska as Bogdan's wife

Maja Ostaszewska as Julia

Slawomir Holland as Karczewski

Piotr Stramowski as Maciek

Fortuna

2018

French

6.3

♡ 1

67%

Germinal Roaux Director

Stéphane Bissot as Barbara

Bruno Ganz as Brother Jean

Yoann Blanc as Brother Luc

Patrick d'Assumçao as Mr. Blanchet

Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic monastery. While she waits for her fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna finds out she is pregnant. The choice she will have to make and the arrival of the refugees will give rise to concern within the religious community and will challenge their concept of Christian charity.

Ru

French

7.0

♡ 5

based on novel or book

Drama

vietnamese refugees

Charles-Olivier Michaud Director

Karine Vanasse as Lisette Girard Sean Lu

Sean Lu as Mr. Vinh

Chantal Thuy as Nguyen

Ralph Prosper as Propriétaire restaurant

After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her family are accepted as refugees in Canada and arrive in Montreal where they begin their new life. But for Tinh, adapting has its share of difficulties.

The Old Oak

7.1

♡ 24

82%

Ken Loach Director

Kika Markham as

Trevor Fox as Charlie

Micky McGregor as Estate Agent

Neil Leiper as Rocco

A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

Night Shapes

1999

German

7.3

♡ 3

Andreas Dresen Director

Ricardo Valentim as Feliz

Michael Gwisdek as Peschke

Axel Prahl as Polizist

Dominique Horwitz as Victor

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Capernaum

2018

Arabic

8.4

♡ 155

90%

Nadine Labaki Director

Beste Kökdemir as Ilva

Nadine Labaki as Nadine

Yordanos Shiferaw as Rahil

Zain Al Rafeea as Zain

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

Beyond Utopia

7.9

♡ 5

100%

north korean defector

pastor

political documentary

underground movement

Madeleine Gavin Director

Jinhae Roh as Self

Yonggil Roh as Self

Jinpyeong Roh as Self

Yeongbok Woo as Self

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

My Name Is Loh Kiwan

2024

Korean

6.7

♡ 14

57%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

belgium

Drama

north korea

north korean defector

romance

Romance

Kim Hee Jin Director

Andrew Lee as Cyril

Harrison Xu as Interpreter

Joong-Ki Song as Lo Kiwan

Balázs Veres as Suit Guy

After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.

No Hard Feelings

2020

German

6.7

♡ 8

100%

Faraz Shariat Director

Hadi Khanjanpour as Ahmed

Jürgen Vogel as Jan

Maryam Zaree as Mina

Niels Bormann as Stefan

Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to a test.

My Name Is Sara

2019