Here we've displayed a list of the best Refugees films : Hotel Rwanda(2004), God Grew Tired of Us(2006), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), The Kite Runner(2007), Lost Boys of Sudan(2003), The Good Lie(2014), Stromboli(1950), Dheepan(2015), The Other Side of Hope(2017), The Cup(1999), Battle for Haditha(2007), Sword in the Desert(1949) ... ...
Drama
UK|South Africa|Italy|USA
2004
121 Minutes
Don Cheadle Sophie Okonedo Joaquin Phoenix Nick Nolte Desmond Dube David O'Hara Fana Mokoena Mothusi Magano Leleti Khumalo Cara Seymour Hakeem Kae-Kazim
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Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
Documentary
USA
2006
86 Minutes
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Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
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The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Drama
USA|China|UK|Afghanistan
2007
128 Minutes
Khalid Abdalla Homayoun Ershadi Zekeria Ebrahimi Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada Shaun Toub Nabi Tanha Ali Danesh Bakhtyari Saïd Taghmaoui Atossa Leoni Abdul Qadir Farookh Maimoona Ghizal
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After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Documentary
USA
2003
90 Minutes
Megan Mylan
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Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest ... See full summary »
Drama
Kenya|India|USA|Canada|South Africa
2014
109 Minutes
Reese Witherspoon Arnold Oceng Ger Duany Emmanuel Jal Corey Stoll Thad Luckinbill Nyakuoth Wiel Femi Oguns Sarah Baker Lindsey Garrett
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A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.
Drama
Italy|USA
1950
81 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Mario Vitale Renzo Cesana Mario Sponzo Gaetano Famularo Angelo Molino Roberto Onorati
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Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Drama
France
2015
110 Minutes
Jesuthasan Antonythasan Kalieaswari Srinivasan Claudine Vinasithamby Vincent Rottiers Marc Zinga Faouzi Bensaidi Bass Dhem Joséphine de Meaux Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux
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Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Drama, Comedy
Finland|Germany
2017
98 Minutes
Sherwan Haji Sakari Kuosmanen Janne Hyytiäinen Ilkka Koivula Nuppu Koivu Simon Hussein Al-Bazoon Niroz Haji Kaija Pakarinen Tommi Korpela Kati Outinen
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A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Comedy
Bhutan|Australia
1999
94 Minutes
Jamyang Lodro Orgyen Tobgyal Neten Chokling
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While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat ... See full summary »
War, Drama
UK
2007
93 Minutes
Elliot Ruiz Matthew Knoll Nathan DelaCruz Yasmine Hanani Andrew McLaren Thomas Hennessy
marine army officer iraqi refugee victim woman bleak intense touching brutal melodramatic sad iraq war zone battlefield war war aftermath iraq war battle refugees
An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
100 Minutes
Dana Andrews Märta Torén Stephen McNally Jeff Chandler Philip Friend Hugh French Liam Redmond Lowell Gilmore Stanley Logan Hayden Rorke George Tyne
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In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.
Drama
UK
1999
107 Minutes
Charlotte Coleman Charles Kay Rosalind Ayres Roger Sloman Heather Tobias Julian Firth Danny Nussbaum Siobhan Redmond Gilbert Martin Steve Sweeney Linda Bassett
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In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. ... See full summary »
Drama
Australia
2019
111 Minutes
Hugo Weaving Andrew Luri Hayley McElhinney Bolude Watson Alan Dukes Toni Scanlan Brandon Burke Victoria Haralabidou
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Daniel is preparing an exhibition of his work from the world's war zones. When Sebastian learns that this exhibition may display photographs of a massacre in his village, he finds Daniel and appeals to him to exclude those photographs.
Drama
Italy|France|USA|Germany|Qatar
2015
110 Minutes
Koudous Seihon Alassane Sy Adam Gnegne Mary Elizabeth Innocence Pio Amato Davide Schipilliti
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Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
War
USA
1957
108 Minutes
Rock Hudson Martha Hyer Dan Duryea Don DeFore Anna Kashfi Jock Mahoney Alan Hale Jr. Carl Benton Reid Richard Loo James Edwards Philip Ahn
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A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
Portugal|France|Brazil
2018
96 Minutes
Daniel Schmidt Carloto Cotta Cleo Tavares Anabela Moreira Margarida Moreira Carla Maciel Filipe Vargas Joana Barrios Chico Chapas
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A fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.
Romance, Drama, History
Spain|USA
2016
134 Minutes
Oscar Isaac Charlotte Le Bon Christian Bale Shohreh Aghdashloo Marwan Kenzari Angela Sarafyan Rade Serbedzija Igal Naor Numan Acar Milene Mayer Tamer Hassan
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Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Western
USA
1940
79 Minutes
John Wayne Sigrid Gurie Charles Coburn Spencer Charters Roland Varno Trevor Bardette Helen MacKellar Sonny Bupp Wade Boteler Russell Simpson Charles Waldron
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Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
India
2012
129 Minutes
Ajith Kumar Parvathy Omanakuttan Prabhu Rahman Sudhanshu Pandey Bruna Abdullah Vidyut Jamwal Yog Japee Sarath Mandava Manoj K. Jayan Ilavarasu
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Small-time diamond smuggler David befriends Goa-based gangster Abbasi. But when David begins to build inroads with an international gangster, Abbasi is not happy. Soon the two turn into bitter rivals.
Drama
UK
2013
89 Minutes
Toby Jones Noof Ousellam Masieh Zarrien Emma N. Power Yasmin Mwanza Melanie Wilder Anusha Prakash
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Three teenagers forced to leave their family, friends and homes behind learn to live in yet another hostile country. That country is the UK.
Drama
USA
2017
108 Minutes
John Corbett Cara Buono Myles Moore Barry Corbin Nelson Lee Angela Fox Gregory Alan Williams John Wise Win Jenne Kang David Keith Todd Truley
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When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Hungary|Germany|France
2017
123 Minutes
Merab Ninidze Zsombor Jéger György Cserhalmi Mónika Balsai Ákos Birkás Péter Haumann Judit Meszléry Enikö Mihalik
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Aryan is a Syrian refugee trying to make his way into Hungary from Serbia, along with his father and many other wretched souls. They are all caught, and find themselves in a web of cynicism and corruption.
Drama, Biography, History
USA
2019
111 Minutes
Zuzanna Surowy Pawe? Królikowski Michalina Olszanska Eryk Lubos Aleksandra Pisula Ksawery Szlenkier
teenager jewish child farmer brooding emotional inspiring poland farm holocaust secret identity refugees escape mystery 1940s
Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
Drama
UK
1969
103 Minutes
David Niven Topol Anna Karina John Hurt Anthony Quayle Ori Levy
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After World War II, in an Austrian camp for displaced people, an interpreter mediates between the British and the Soviets regarding the fate of various refugees.
Kids & Family, Adventure
France|Canada
1981
81 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Jonathan Starr Anick Monique Mercure Ky Huot Uk Jean-Louis Roux Guy Hoffman Valda Dalton
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In this inspiring fantasy film, three children befriend a young Cambodian boy who dreams of returning home. When the children meet an eccentric railroad engineer (Mickey Rooney) with an ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
2019
97 Minutes
Lena Heady Iain Glen Arsher Ali Ivanno Jeremiah Mandip Gill Jack Gordon Rebecca Johnson Christopher Sciueref John Lightbody Sam Otto Amira Ghazalla
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A hardened immigration officer decides the fate of a dangerous asylum seeker.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada
2014
98 Minutes
Phoebe Fox Jeremy Irvine Helen McCrory Adrian Rawlins Oaklee Pendergast Ned Dennehy Leilah de Meza Amelia Crouch Amelia Pidgeon Casper Allpress Pip Pearce
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40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrives, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Drama
2017
100 Minutes
Eriq Ebouaney Sandrine Bonnaire Aalayna Lys Ibrahim Burama Darboe Bibi Tanga Léonie Simaga Régine Conas Khampha Thammavongsa Marius Yelolo Heling Li Franck Okouo
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Drama, Romance
2018
106 Minutes
Kidist Siyum Bruno Ganz Patrick D'Assumçao Yoann Blanc Stéphane Bissot
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