Movies Like Green Border (2023)

Green Border is a 2023 drama film from Agnieszka Holland with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Happy End and Papers, Please - The Short Film.

Drama

Happy End

2017

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.

6.2

MagicScore

Papers, Please - The Short Film

2018

An official adaptation of the award winning game "Papers, Please" by Lucas Pope.

7.0

MagicScore

2017

Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can't help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human suffering. Can you avoid becoming a monster when you've been raised by one? Onur Saylak's debut feature, adapted from the award-winning novel of the same title by Hakan Günday, one of the first novels to document the refugee crisis in Europe, "More" is the gripping story of a boy that gets to grow up in a world where there's no room for innocence.

7.3

MagicScore

Welcome to Norway!

2016

A couple decide to open a home for refugees in the remote cold mountains of Norway.

6.1

MagicScore

The Flood

2019

Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interrogation, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum.

5.4

MagicScore

The Other Side of Hope

2017

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

6.9

MagicScore

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir

2018

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.

6.9

MagicScore

Border

2018

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

6.7

MagicScore

Marfa Girl

2012

A disaffected Texas teen spends his 16th birthday getting high, hanging out and having casual sex.

4.9

MagicScore

#10

Tori and Lokita

2022

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.

6.8

MagicScore

#11

The Spanish Main

1945

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

Winter Crossing

2024

Marie, in her forties, lives in the Hautes-Alpes, cut off from her relatives. She only has her lover, Alex, a border policeman. Thanks to him, she smuggles cigarettes between Italy and France for her ' get out. On her way to France, she bumps into Mouneer, a 20-year-old Sudanese migrant, determined to join his little sister. He guesses her trafficking and persuades her to bring migrants across the border.

5.9

MagicScore

#13

23 000 Lives

2026

A group of young people sets sail for the Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees — a mission that puts their ideas of law and justice to the test.

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Unspeakable

2003

Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.

3.6

MagicScore

#15

Retrograde

2022

The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.

7.1

MagicScore

#16

Stranger at the Gate

2022

A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face to face with the people he sets out to kill.

6.2

MagicScore

#17

El Norte

1983

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.

7.1

MagicScore

#18

The Snorkel

1958

On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

Desire

1936

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Frozen River

2008

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Green Border?

The top films similar to Green Border by MovieMagicScore are Happy End (6.2), Papers, Please - The Short Film (7.0), More (7.3). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Green Border worth watching?

Green Border holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 108 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Green Border?

Green Border (2023) is a drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai.

Where can I find more recommendations like Green Border?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Green Border

This ranked list pairs Green Border (2023), a drama film from Agnieszka Holland, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jalal Altawil take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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