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Daresalam
πΉπ© ChadIn a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men, from farmers into soldiers and from villagers into revolutionaries. "We fight in one world so we can live in another," declares Koni as the two battle shoulder to shoulder against government troops. But while Koni embraces the politics and carnage of their dangerous new guerilla existence, Djimi longs for the simplicity and grace of the village life they've left behind. As the rebels move closer to victory, the two friends move closer to a clash of their own.
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Lumumba
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1950sThe true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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Pieces of Identity
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theA Congolese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
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Bye Bye Africa
πΉπ© ChadA Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother entitled Bye Bye Africa but immediately encounters major problems. Cinemas have closed and financing is impossible to secure. The director reunites with an old girlfriend (Yelena), who was shunned by Chadians who could not distinguish between film and reality after appearing in one of his previous films as an HIV victim. Haroun learns about the destruction of the African cinema from directors in neighboring countries, but also finds Issa Serge Coelo shooting his first film, Daressalam. Things go badly and, convinced that it is impossible to make films in Africa, Haroun departs Chad in despair, leaving his film camera to a young boy who had been assisting him.
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Sweepers
π¦π΄ AngolaOne step between life and death. β Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the area.
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Little Fruit from the Equator
πΈπΉ Sao Tome and Principe The 1990sThe story is an allegory, combining narrative aspects of comedy films, documentary films, fairy tales, and road movies. The story starts with a dying old woman, who is calling for her distant son. Her calls take solid form in the shape of a giant breadfruit, which falls from the sky right in front of her son's residence. Realizing that this is a message from his mother, the son sets out to find her and takes the fruit with him. His trek across the island involves interactions both with people who are either amused or disturbed by his abnormal fruit, and with those to whom the fruit seems to an answer to their "fantasies", "desires and dark longings".
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The Forgotten Women
π¦π΄ AngolaThe film is a documentary about Angola. It tells of the heavy cost of war to women. After ten years of struggle for independence, the war in Angola had continued for another twenty years. The film explores the motives of the combatants, including Cuba and South Africa's apartheid government. In this film, Folly lets women tell their own stories. She shows the women from mid- or close-range, forcing the viewer to focus on their faces rather than their bodies or surroundings, and takes the time to let them say what they have to say, giving a unique women's perspective of the conflict. Folly participates in the film through her voice-over, giving a subjective element. She admits that she is not familiar with Angola, and certainly is not an authority. The film thus becomes a record of Folly's own journey of discovery.
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When We Were Kings
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sThe untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle. β It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
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Macadem tribe
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theDirected by Zeka Laplaine.
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Outbreak
π¨π¬ Congo π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990s The 1960sThis animal carries a deadly virus... and the greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen. β A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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Congo
π¨π¬ Congo π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1990sWhere you are the endangered species. β Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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In the Army Now
πΉπ© Chad The 1990sSleep tight, America! The safety of the free world rests in his hands! β Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.
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Heart of Darkness
π¨π¬ Congo The 1890sThe jungle offers incredible riches, but its price can be deadly. β A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Quartier Mozart
π¨π² CameroonThe boisterous and cheerful lives of the residents of Cameroon are barely dented by incursions of supernatural power in this humor-filled rendition of traditional folk tales in modern guise. In the story, a cheerfully naughty girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into a young man. She then becomes one of the boy suitors for the amorous attentions of a policeman's daughter. Some of the men have unusual names and even odder magical gifts: one of them has the ability to make a man's genitals disappear when he shakes hands with him.
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire
π¨π« Central African RepublicDocumentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
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Captive of the Desert
πΉπ© Chad The 1970sAn European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...
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Any Man's Death
π¦π΄ AngolaThe search has begun ... β When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options...
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The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws
π¨π¬ Congo π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theRooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the Chicken, the Chicken ate the Termite, the Termite ate the Stick and the Stick ate the Toad, when the Toad arrives at his in-lawsβ home and is served a meal with a single spoon, sparking off a terrible row!
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Gorillas in the Mist
π¨π¬ Congo π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAt the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for. β The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Chocolat
π¨π² Cameroon The 1950sDenis's semi-autobiographical film debut. β A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, ProtΓ©eβa man of great nobility, intelligence and beautyβand the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
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Skeleton Coast
π¦π΄ AngolaA retired American colonel: his mission, to rescue his son, a CIA agent imprisoned in the Skeleton Coast! β A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.
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Red Scorpion
π¦π΄ AngolaThey think they control him. Think again. β A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
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Life Is Rosy
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theA young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a woman - the same woman his boss is also pursuing for his own reasons.
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Brief Illness
π¨π² CameroonBadiaga follows the rules of a classical tragedy. A three year old girl abandoned in a food market is sheltered and raised by a deaf and dumb vagrant. They develop a very strong bond. Badiaga dreams of becoming a famous singer and listens in total fascination to the artists who sing in the different cafΓ©s where she wanders. One day she has the chance of singing on the radio a song which becomes a national hit. From that moment onwards she holds a nonstop succession of concerts. In love with her career, she refuses any romantic relations and searches desperately for her origins. This story was inspired by the life of Beti-Beti, a legendary Cameroon singer.
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Three Men on Fire
π¨π² CameroonA Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.
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Boetie Goes To The Border
π¦π΄ Angola The 1980sBoetie is the type of guy who will do anything to get out of military service. Until his father makes him an offer he can't refuse. Its a story of a rich kid who learns the value of being a man.
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Histoires drΓ΄les et drΓ΄les de gens
π¨π² CameroonAn African storyteller, humorously and kindly, talks about how some of his fellow countrymen are emulating the habits of white people and "Their stuff". He thus presents several cases to prove his point. In one of them a supposed to be planter and businessman who underpay an employee gets framed by his own folks. A young boy, jump from a high tree with an open umbrella to copy the way the parachutist do in the city. A few other examples are as pathetic or comical. At the epilogue our storyteller finds himself being laughed at, at a bistro in Paris. The way he deals with the situation is kind, and again humorous.
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The Wrestlers
π¨π¬ Congo The 1980sThis film illustrate through physical struggle, the clash between generations and civilizations.
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Operation Leopard
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1970sIn May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, DamrΓ©mont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military AttachΓ©.
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La chapelle
π¨π¬ Congo The 1930sSet in the 1930s, it shows life in a village some distance from the administrative post, where the people live by the traditions of their ancestors. The priest of an Evangelical mission comes into conflict with a young school teacher.
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The Price of Liberty
π¨π² CameroonAfter refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father's authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratch. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends. However, she realizes that social relations in town also depend on sexual favors and that around her everyone has given in to that practice. When she loses the only man she loved, the girl returns to her village and in a fit of rage sets it on fire.
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Black and White in Color
π¨π² Cameroon The 1910sFrench colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
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The Passenger
πΉπ© Chad The 1970sI used to be somebody else...but I traded him in. β David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.
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The Child of Another
π¨π² CameroonNgando and NdomΓ© share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for NdomΓ©βs hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds himself at the mercy of his uncleβs lust and greed. How can Ngando and NdomΓ© find peace together? Their journey will be challenging and everyone will learn that not everything special can be saved.
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Sambizanga
π¦π΄ Angola The 1960sDomingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to know where he is.
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The Last Grenade
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... β British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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The Seven Red Berets
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theDeep in the African Congo, revolution rages and explosive documents have fallen into the hands of nationalist guerillas. The Red Berets are the government's only hope of retrieving papers which could change the course of the war.
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Dark of the Sun
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBrutes! Savages! Heroes! They're Mercenaries... They're Paid to do a Job! β A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
π¦π΄ AngolaA rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
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Black Jesus
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theA thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
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The Last Mercenary
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theAfter the war in Congo, two mercenaries take a mission to safeguard uranium transportation in a South American jungle, fighting bandits and local miners.
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The Last Adventure
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theTwo adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
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Kaka-Yo
π¨π¬ Congo The 1960sVibrant love story, which means "Just You" in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation, the sorcery, spiritual power and ritual.
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Konga Yo
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theTwo Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil of the Congo.
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Eruption
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theIn Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1940sHow Could It Happen To Rachel Cade? β A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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Unser Haus in Kamerun
π¨π² CameroonA young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.
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Prisoner of the Jungle
π¨π² CameroonThe survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
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The Nun's Story
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1930s The 1920sHer Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors! β After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Congo Crossing
π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of theIn Africa's savage city of outcasts they met in a rendezvous with terror! β Director Joseph Pevney's 1956 jungle drama, set in Africa, stars Virginia Mayo, George Nader, Peter Lorre, Michael Pate, Kathryn Givney, Raymond Bailey and Rex Ingram.
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