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1) The Afghan
Description
A bored teen and an Afghan refugee become friend and become in a harrowing journey together.
3) Borderless
Description
A young boy lives alone on an abandoned ship harbored along the stretch of an unnamed war-torn border. The boy's solitary existence is torn apart when a young refugee appears in search of shelter, carrying an infant.
4) The tempest
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
5) Sorcerer
Description
Four men who, for various reasons, cannot return to their own countries end up in a dismal South American town where an American oil company is seeking out courageous drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin over miles of treacherous terrain. The four men have nothing to lose; and, besides, they'll be paid 10,000 dollars apiece, and be granted legal citizenship, if they survive.
7) Casablanca
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Description
A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the rest of the German-speaking refugees. They must impress upon him the importance of remaining silent, or else their plan, and their lives, could fall apart.
9) All saints
Description
A salesman-turned-pastor is sent to a town in Tennessee to oversee the winding down and sale of a struggling church.
10) Casablanca
Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
11) Transit
Description
A man seeking to flee German-occupied France assumes the identity of a dead writer to take advantage of his Mexican visa, and while waiting for the departure, he meets the writer's estranged wife and falls in love with her.
14) Exodus
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
Description
In his father's shoes: "When 15-year-old Clay's father dies of cancer, he puts on a pair of wingtips given to his dad by a gypsy and discovers that he can travel in time with them. Eager to know more about his father's younger years, Clay goes back in time to experience what it would be like to walk in his father's shoes"--Container.
Out of the woods: "When a hotshot L.A. lawyer Matt Fleming agrees to head upstate into the wilderness to check on...
16) The last witness
Description
A journalist risks his life to uncover a refugee's connection to the British government's cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.
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