101 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 21st Century
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The Baby Doll Night
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇪🇬 Egypt The 2000sCan one night of pleasure mend sixty years of pain? — Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
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Rough Aunties
🇿🇦 South Africa The 2000sFearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. This newest documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE) follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities.
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Hitman
🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey Africa - General 🇳🇪 Niger The 2000sMost believe his very existence is a sin. But others know he is a necessary evil. — A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
New York England 🇷🇴 Romania 🇪🇬 Egypt Shanghai 🇯🇵 Japan The 2000sDiscover the secret of the Surfer. — The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
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The Bourne Ultimatum
New York Virginia England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 2000sRemember everything. Forgive nothing. — Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
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Shooter
Montana Pennsylvania 🇪🇷 Eritrea The 2000sYesterday was about honor. Today is about justice. — A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why??
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War Dance
🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000sThe war stole everything, except their music. — Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
🇨🇬 Congo The 1990s The 2000sSince the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
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Without the King
🇸🇿 Eswatini The 2000sWithout the King is a 2007 documentary film by Michael Skolnik, an American filmmaker. It follows problems of Swaziland, a landlocked country in southern Africa. The film features Mswati III, the king of Swaziland, and his heiress and self claimed rapper Princess Sikhanyiso. It shows the angry populace and the country's problems such as a high HIV prevalence, comparing it with the daily life of Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch.
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Dry Season
🇹🇩 Chad The 2000sChad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
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Casino Royale
Florida 🇮🇹 Italy 🇲🇬 Madagascar 🇲🇪 Montenegro England 🇧🇸 Bahamas 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000sEveryone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. — Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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Invisible Children
🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000sDiscover the Unseen — In the spring of 2003, three young filmmakers traveled to Africa in search of a story. What started out as a filmmaking adventure transformed into much more when these boys from Southern California discovered a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them, a tragedy where children are both the weapons and the victims. After returning to the States, they created the documentary "Invisible Children: Rough Cut," a film that exposes the tragic realities of northern Uganda.s night commuters and child soldiers. The film was originally shown to friends and family, but has now been seen by millions of people. The overwhelming response has been, "How can I help?" To answer this question, the non-profit Invisible Children, Inc. was created, giving compassionate individuals an effective way to respond to the situation.
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Son of Man
Africa - General The 2000sOne man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Workingman's Death
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sA documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. — Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulphur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
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U-Carmen
🇿🇦 South Africa The 2000sU-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
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Team America: World Police
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France New York South Dakota District of Columbia 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇵🇦 Panama The 2000sFreedom Hangs By A Thread — Team America World Police follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that dictator Kim Jong il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save it in time? It stars… Samuel L Jackson, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Helen Hunt, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin… or does it?
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Cape of Good Hope
🇿🇦 South Africa The 2000sMark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
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Tears of the Sun
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sHe was trained to follow orders. He became a hero by defying them. — Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
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Lost Boys of Sudan
🇸🇸 South Sudan The 2000sLost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia
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Bedwin Hacker
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 2000sIn the contemporary Tunisian thriller Bedwin Hacker, a female media pirate - holed up in a remote outpost in the mountains of Tunisia - figures out a way to take over the television and radio airwaves in France and North Africa to broadcast political messages. The irritated French Intelligence service closes in on her, which leads to a tit-for-tat game of intrigue between the hacker and her pursuers. Helmed by a female director, this film is of some historical significance, given its unusually frank, straightforward, and accurate portrayal of the day-to-day experiences of north African women.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sBorn into Wealth. Groomed by the Elite. Trained for Combat. — English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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X-Men
New York District of Columbia Mississippi 🇵🇱 Poland Africa - General 🇨🇦 Canada The 2000s The 1940sEvolution Begins — Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
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Thunderbird 6
New York Arizona 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇳 India 🇪🇬 Egypt New South Wales 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2060sThe International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
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