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

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemp...

Floating Clouds
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she t...

Empire of the Sun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who lo...

Black Rain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly...

One Wonderful Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope....

Twenty-Four Eyes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refugee for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances....