Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Refugee

If you loved Refugee, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Sivas

Sivas

2014★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong r...

#2
A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents fo...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with ...

#5
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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