379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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Death on the Nile
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930sMurder was just the beginning. — Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
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Black Widow
Ohio New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. — Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Africa - General The 1980sThe third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.
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Escape from Mogadishu
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1990sDiplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
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The Mauritanian
New Mexico New York Louisiana 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇲🇷 Mauritania The 2000s The 2010s The 1980sA detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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The Last Mercenary
🇫🇷 France 🇸🇩 Sudan The 1990s The 2020sThe daddy of all secret agents. — A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.
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Heliopolis
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1940sA Story Inspired by Real Events — In the city of Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country's independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre.
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Swallow
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1980sSet in the 1980s, Tolani Ajao is a bank secretary in Lagos, who finds herself persuaded by her friend Rose Adamson to enter the world of drug trafficking.
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Mosquito
🇲🇿 Mozambique 🇵🇹 Portugal The 1910sDreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
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Wonder Woman 1984
District of Columbia Virginia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇨🇳 China Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sA new era of wonder begins. — A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇳 China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits — Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Escape from Pretoria
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sSurvival is key — South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
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The One and Only Ivan
Washington Africa - General The 1970s The 1990sIt's never too late to discover who you are. — A gorilla named Ivan who’s living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
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Our Lady of the Nile
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1970sRwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the same problems of teenage girls. But in every corner of the country as well as in the school there are deep antagonisms that will forever change the destiny of these young girls and the whole country.
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Small Country: An African Childhood
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sWhen The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History — Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
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Moffie
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1980sMoffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) follows the story of Nicholas van der Swart: from a very young age, he realises he is different. Try as he may, he cannot live up to the macho image expected of him by his family, by his heritage. Set during the South African border war against communism, this is a long-overdue story about the emotional and physical suffering endured by countless young men.
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Home Front
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960sBurgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful memories and reveal untold stories of the Algerian War.
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Avengers: Endgame
New York New Jersey California 🇳🇴 Norway Tokyo Prefecture Africa - General The 1970s The 1940s The 2010s The 2020s The 2000sPart of the journey is the end. — After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Dark Phoenix
New York 🇫🇷 France Africa - General The 1970s The 1990sThe Phoenix will rise. — The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
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The Red Sea Diving Resort
🇸🇩 Sudan The 1970s The 1980sIn the 1980s one partnership saved thousands of lives — Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
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Men in Black: International
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sThe universe is expanding — The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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15 Minutes of War
🇩🇯 Djibouti The 1970sFebruary 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
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The Mercy of the Jungle
🇨🇬 Congo 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the 🇺🇬 Uganda The 1990sThe Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
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While at War
🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1930sSometimes silence is the worst lie — Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
🇿🇲 Zambia The 1960sNdola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.
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