1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Dazzling Mirage
๐ณ๐ฌ NigeriaIs it worth risking it all to have it all? โ An adaptation of Yinka Egbokhare's novel. The story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various social and emotional challenges she's faced with.
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Hazeezat
๐ณ๐ฌ NigeriaA naive Muslim girl is devastated when she falls pregnant and her married lover callously instructs her to abort the child. Her mission is to get back into his good graces, but she is unexpectedly distracted along the way.
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Rush
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970sEveryone's driven by something. โ A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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Escape Plan
Colorado California Louisiana Florida ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Atlantic OceanNo one breaks out alone. โ Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
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Captain Phillips
Vermont ๐ด๐ฒ Oman ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 2000sOut here survival is everything. โ The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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Horses of God
๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoNo one is born a martyr. โ The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Moroccoโs Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
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The Repentant
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sAlgeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law ยซ of pardon and national harmony ยป, he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a ยซ repenti ยป. But the law cannot erase his crimes and for Rachid it's the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Michigan ๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoA depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
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Death Race: Inferno
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWelcome to the Inferno โ Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.
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Collision
๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoA couple on their honeymoon in Morocco survive a deadly car accident in the middle of the desert. โ Set around a wife and husband on vacation in Morocco with the wife plotting to murder her husband with help from her lover. The plan goes terribly wrong when her lover and husband get into a terrible car accident on a remote desert road. They escape the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors, including a wanted smuggler, an undercover cop, a kidnapper, a baby and an unconscious Australian. They embark on a journey of deceit and revelation that culminates in a Tangiers souk.
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Dirty Wars
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ธ๐ด Somalia ๐พ๐ช Yemen The 2010sA secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth. โ Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
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The Square
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sThe people demand the downfall of the regime โ The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egyptโs new democracy. Cairoโs Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarekโs fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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Layla Fourie
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaLayla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
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The Physician
England ๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 11th CenturyA journey out of darkness into light โ England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
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Goodbye Morocco
๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoTangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be able to leave Morocco with her son, who she hardly ever sees since her divorce. The death of a worker disrupts her plan...
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Complicit
England ๐ช๐ฌ EgyptAn MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
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Doctor Bello
๐ณ๐ฌ NigeriaThe cure for cancer has been found... in the sky mountains of Africa... โ Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the childโs life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
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Khumba
Africa - GeneralHalf a zebra, a whole lot of adventure! โ A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical leopard and save his herd.
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Vehicle 19
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWrong place. Wrong time. Wrong car. โ A parolee becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.
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The Brats
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoNewly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him to drop everything else in his life as well. The two men then throw themselves into a new brats' life full of adventure, convinced that freedom is elsewhere. But at what cost do we rediscover our adolescent dreams?
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Zulu
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaAs a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain.
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Grigris
๐น๐ฉ ChadA 25 year old young man with dreams of becoming a dancer despite the fact that he's paralyzed from the waist down. His dreams are shattered when his uncle falls seriously ill. To save him, he decides to go work for petrol traffickers.
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Singam II
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaAn Indian Police โ Picking up the storyline from where Singam ended, Duraisingam has gone undercover after meeting the Home Minister and is working as an NCC officer in a school in Thoothukudi. The only people who know about this operation are the Chief Minister and Home Minister apart from himself.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1940sIt is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. โ A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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Homeland
๐ฉ๐ฟ AlgeriaFarid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France...
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