Movies: Calais

  • 2009
    Welcome

    Welcome (2009)

    Welcome

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    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 Chan...

    Welcome
  • 2021
    After Love

    After Love (2021)

    After Love

    7.12021HD

    Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Chan...

    After Love
  • 1941
    That Hamilton Woman

    That Hamilton Woman (1941)

    That Hamilton Woman

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    The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars....

    That Hamilton Woman
  • 2017
    Happy End

    Happy End (2017)

    Happy End

    6.22017HD

    A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home....

    Happy End
  • 1975
    The Romantic Englishwoman

    The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)

    The Romantic Englishwoman

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    A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block....

    The Romantic Englishwoman
  • 1897
    Between Calais and Dover

    Between Calais and Dover (1897)

    Between Calais and Dover

    5.31897HD

    A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès....

    Between Calais and Dover
  • 2023
    On Our Doorstep

    On Our Doorstep (2023)

    On Our Doorstep

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    On Our Doorstep delves deep into an aspect of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs being blocked by red tape and the absence of any positive action by French or British authorities, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the u...

    On Our Doorstep
  • 2003
    Calais: The Last Border

    Calais: The Last Border (2003)

    Calais: The Last Border

    5.82003HD

    A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets. Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, tryi...

    Calais: The Last Border
  • 2019
    Building the Channel Tunnel

    Building the Channel Tunnel (2019)

    Building the Channel Tunnel

    02019HD

    The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunn...

    Building the Channel Tunnel
  • 1943
    Tonight We Raid Calais

    Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)

    Tonight We Raid Calais

    5.41943HD

    A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission....

    Tonight We Raid Calais
  • 2018
    Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?

    Fugitive, Where Are You Running to? (2018)

    Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?

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    Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of these people wavering between despair and hope....

    Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?
  • 2016
    Refugee Blues

    Refugee Blues (2016)

    Refugee Blues

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    Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem, the film charts an intimate day in ‘the jungle’ of the refugee camp outside Calais, which contradicts the mainstream portrayal of the camp as a center of violence....

    Refugee Blues
  • 2021
    Aya

    Aya (2021)

    Aya

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    In a town near Calais that looks like the Wild West, big-hearted 50-year-old Lydie shelters Zimako, an unruly, paperless migrant from Togo....

    Aya
  • 2017
    The Lost Kids of Calais

    The Lost Kids of Calais (2017)

    The Lost Kids of Calais

    02017HD

    Rafi, Salman, Said and Ali are all under 18 years old. They come from Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan. After months of wandering, fleeing wars in their country, they found themselves stuck in Calais, where they are trying to survive, waiting for some...

    The Lost Kids of Calais
  • 1969
    Los burgueses de Calais

    Los burgueses de Calais (1969)

    Los burgueses de Calais

    01969HD

    Documentary about the humanitarian crisis of the refugees between 2015 and 2018...

    Los burgueses de Calais