379 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 20th Century
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Mississippi Masala
Mississippi πΊπ¬ Uganda The 1970s The 1990sPassion. Tradition. Mix it up. β An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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The Sheltering Desert
π³π¦ Namibia The 1930s The 1940sIn 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.
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The Sheltering Sky
π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sA woman's dangerous and erotic journey... β An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Africa - General The 1950sAn adventure in obsession... β A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
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A Man Called Sarge
πͺπ¬ Egypt Africa - General The 1940sThey have no fear. No shame. No chance. All hope would be lost except for... β In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.
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Mister Johnson
π³π¬ Nigeria The 1920sAfrica 1923: A clash of cultures between British imperalists and a black man too smart for his own good. β In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
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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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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1980sGenua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between ...
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Schweitzer
Africa - General The 1910sThe story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.
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Jit
πΏπΌ Zimbabwe The 1990sA young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
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Lethal Weapon 2
California πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1980sThe magic is back! β In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II
π§πΌ Botswana πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1980sThis Time, Everybody's Going Crazier. β Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
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A Dry White Season
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1970sDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Time to Kill
πͺπΉ Ethiopia The 1930sAn innocent man just went over the edge of reason. β 1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a wonderful young Ethiopian. He also wound her when he shot to a wild animal, and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he gets probably leprosy. Trying to escape from Ethiopia Silvestri will kill again. But surprises aren't still over.
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Casablanca Express
π©πΏ Algeria The 1940s... British S.I.S. and U.S. Marines rescue Winston Churchill from Nazi storm troopers in the Moroccan Desert... Stop. β It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.
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Ten Little Indians
Africa - General The 1930sAn unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
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Heritage Africa
π¬π Ghana The 1950sThe story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
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Coming to America
Africa - General New York The 1980sThe four funniest men in America are Eddie Murphy. β An African prince decides itβs time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
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Gorillas in the Mist
π¨π¬ Congo Kentucky π·πΌ Rwanda Africa - General 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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A World Apart
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1960sSouth Africa, 1963. A mother's love. A family's courage. β A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
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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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The Kiss
New York Africa - General The 1980s The 1960sDon't do it with your eyes closed. β After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
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Those Whom Death Refused
π¬π³ Guinea π¬πΌ Guinea-Bissau The 1970sThe story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.
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The Kitchen Toto
π°πͺ Kenya The 1950sThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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