1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Fanie Fourie's Lobola
🇿🇦 South AfricaAfter Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).
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Miserere
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇦 MoroccoParis, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
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Paris or Perish
🇲🇦 MoroccoMaya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
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Aya of Yop City
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1970sWhile Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.
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Exit Marrakech
🇲🇦 MoroccoWhen 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1960sAn epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
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Rock the Casbah
🇲🇦 MoroccoA comedy. About a tragedy. — The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
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The Rooftops
🇩🇿 AlgeriaA sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria’s greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache.
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B for Boy
🇳🇬 NigeriaB For Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman's desperate need for a male child; which reveals the discrimination of women in the names of culture and religion.
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Flower Girl
🇳🇬 NigeriaNigerian comedy about a young woman who wants to get married, but her boyfriend is only interested in furthering his career, so she seeks help to get him to tie the knot.
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African Safari
🇧🇼 Botswana 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇹🇿 Tanzania 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 2010sA documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
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Schuks! Your Country Needs You
🇿🇦 South AfricaSchuster at his candid best — Leon Schuster (Schuks) returns to prank unsuspecting South Africans. Helping him round up everyday victims are Rob van Vuuren, Lare Brink, and all-time favourite Alfred Ntombela.
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Tarzan
New York Africa - GeneralThe legend starts here — One of the most classic and revered stories of all time, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan returns to the big screen for a new generation. Tarzan and Jane face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash in the African jungle.
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Portrait of a Lone Farmer
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Prisoners of the Sun
🇪🇬 EgyptAn ancient pyramid. A present threat. A mystery unchained after 5,000 years — A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse
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Mountains of the Moon
🇺🇬 Uganda 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1910s The 1900sChander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
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Nzinga, Queen of Angola
🇦🇴 Angola The 17th CenturyIn the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.
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Challat of Tunis
🇹🇳 TunisiaMockumentary about the search for the "Challat,” an infamous slasher of women's behinds.
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Lagos Cougars
🇳🇬 NigeriaThree corporate women - Elsie (Monalisa Chinda), Aret (Uche Jombo) and Joke (Daniella Okeke) - in their quest to find love and explore their fantasies.
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The Pardon
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sAfter being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.
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Pokou, Ashanti Princess
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire 🇬🇭 GhanaIn the eighteenth century, in the Ashanti people's kingdom, which covers two-thirds of what is now Ghana, lived Princess Abla Pokou. A very influential advisor to King Opokou Warê, she was opposed to war. She and former warrior Kongouê Bian became involved in a tale of political intrigue.
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Murder At Prime Suites
🇳🇬 NigeriaPrivate detectives are on a mission to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a university student who secretly embarks on a journey to an unknown place unbeknownst to all that know her.
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Stigma
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe daughter of a local midwife has her childhood brought to an abrupt halt when her mother decides to marry a local Lothario. Quickly her new stepfather shows his nasty side including his penchant for other women, theft and alcohol abuse. When her mother's health takes a turn for the worse they are ostracized from the community.
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Nesma
🇹🇳 TunisiaFirstly, there's Youssef, who has his identity stolen and who decides to act, even if means losing his way. Then, there's the young Syrine, who will take her first steps in the adult world. And Slim, who is perhaps not as paranoid as he appears. Finally there's this house that Youssef and his wife trie to rent. In the hot tunisian summer they couldn't find any renter even if in a spot of its garden you can feel a cool breeze... What will happen to Youssef who will uses this house trying to get rid of his 'double'.
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journey to self
🇳🇬 NigeriaJOURNEY TO SELF is an intense story of friendship, sacrifice, empowerment and self-respect.It tells the story of four friends, Nse (Nse Ikpe-Etim), Regina (Ashionye Michelle-Raccah), Alex (Dakore Akande) and Rume (Katherine Obiang Edoho) who lose a mutual childhood friend, Uche (Tosin Sido). Uche speaks through a series of letters stirring her friends to a journey of self-discovery… a ‘Journey to Self’
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