Movies and TvShows featuring "womans-refuge" theme.

When We Leave tells the story of Umay, a young Turkish woman who leaves her abusive husband in Istanbul and moves to Germany with her son in order to start a new life. However, she faces challenges as she tries to adapt to a new culture and confronts the pressure to return to her husband.

Parisienne tells the story of a young woman who moves to Paris in the 1990s and falls in love while facing challenges such as obtaining a residency permit, court hearings, and navigating her life as an immigrant. The movie explores themes of love, family, friendship, and the struggles faced by immigrants.

The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband while he was trying to restrain her from getting back in her car and leaving after an argument. The officers explain that she has committed a battery and thereby earned herself an inescapable arrest and overnight stay in jail because by law they have no discretion. This sets the stage for two hours of court proceedings before three different judges, each trying to apply the Florida domestic violence laws.