Drama, Romance
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
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Passage of Life
Amen.
It's a Free World...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Night Shapes
Patria
Maria Full of Grace
Shaft in Africa
BPM (Beats per Minute)
Lovers
Evil
The Mission
Bhuthan – The World’s Happiest Man
The Visitor
The Walker
My Name Is Loh Kiwan
Aporia
Refuge
Spanglish
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
SIMILAR MOVIES
Passage of Life
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2017
Burmese boy Kaung and his family emigrated to Japan with the hope for a better life. They have lived in Tokyo for years, but never obtained a visum. The daily strain of their illegal residence eventually starts to tear the family apart.Amen.
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2002
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.It's a Free World...
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2007
Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2005
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.Night Shapes
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1999
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.Patria
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 2015
A movie about sinners and their quest for salvation. But God is hard to find.Maria Full of Grace
IMDB 7.2 | Jan , 2004
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.Shaft in Africa
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1973
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.BPM (Beats per Minute)
IMDB 7.7 | Aug , 2017
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.Lovers
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1999
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.Evil
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2003
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.The Mission
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1986
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.Bhuthan – The World’s Happiest Man
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
Bhutan: The World’s Happiest Man tells the story of Mr. Bishnu, an aging Bhutanese-American in Ohio, who dreams of returning to his homeland. After his unexpected death, his family faces a conflict over his final resting place, torn between past memories and present realities. This emotional drama explores themes of love, loss, and the search for belonging.The Visitor
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2008
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.The Walker
IMDB 5.2 | Feb , 2007
Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.My Name Is Loh Kiwan
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 2024
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.Aporia
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2022
Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to bring his wife and children and settle in Germany. During a layover in South Korea, he is found in possession of a fake passport. Haleem then finds himself struggling in an unfamiliar country, taking illegal and illicit work in the hopes of being reunited with his family…Refuge
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2017
Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.Spanglish
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2004
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
IMDB 7 | May , 1982
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.