Les Unwanted de Europa (Italian: Gli indesiderati d'Europa) is a 2018 Spanish-Italian historical black and white film directed by Fabrizio Ferraro.

Upon arrival in Portbou, the Spanish police threatened to turn back the refugees, and Benjamin committed suicide overnight.

The film does not show his death, instead depicting the journey itself in the style of Slow Cinema, with minimal dialogue (selections from Benjamin's writings and conversations between the travellers, as well as between Benjamin and a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale, discussing Nietzsche) and sporadic use of music (by John Cage).

The film is an Italian-Spanish co-production between Passepartout, Eddie Saeta and Rai Cinema, in collaboration with the Jean Vigo-Cinémathèque Euro-regional Institute of Perpignan.

"[3] Meanwhile, academic and critic Roberto Pittaluga discusses the film in the context of the European migrant crisis and the rise of Fascism in the 21st century, as well as Benjamin's own thought, writing: "Les unwanted de Europa is a film about migration and exile at the time they happen, neither before nor after but in that time and that space between, the spacetime of the no longer and the not yet.