1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Hondros
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya 🇱🇷 Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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The Forgiven
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1990sRacist. Prisoner. Murderer. Child of God. — After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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Happy Family
🇷🇴 Romania 🇪🇬 EgyptThe Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.
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Liyana
🇸🇿 EswatiniDark memories. Bright dreams. — A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
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The Angel
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1970sTrue story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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Dumped
🇷🇪 RéunionFrançoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can relax, work on their tans, and have too many margaritas. But when Rose pays a one-night stand, Thierry, to show her mother a good time, their holiday plans start to unravel.
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Belleville Cop
🇫🇷 France Florida Africa - GeneralWhen a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.
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Mia and the White Lion
🇿🇦 South AfricaFriendship is the wildest adventure of all — A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
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Sudani from Nigeria
🇳🇬 NigeriaWhen a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
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Congo - A Political Tragedy
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe Path to Freedom — Resource-rich Africa has been a feeding hand for many successful countries and businesses that have never really benefited the continent itself nor the majority of its people. First of a 3-film series, Congo: A Political Tragedy is a feature-length documentary chronicling the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the arrival of the first European settlers to the nation’s struggle for independence. It offers the unique perspective of Congolese co-writers Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu, as they document the history of a country that has so far mostly been told through the eyes of foreigners.
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Yomeddine
🇪🇬 EgyptA Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
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Sofia
🇲🇦 MoroccoSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities…
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The Harvesters
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sSouth Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
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Rafiki
🇰🇪 KenyaKena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
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Boxing Libreville
🇬🇦 Gabon The 2010sLibreville, Gabon, Africa, 2016. Christ, a young boxer, trains tirelessly during the day and earns his living by night as a bouncer in nightclubs. At the same time, the combat of the presidential elections is taking place. As Christ hopes to succeed, a whole country hopes that a democratic transition finally triumphs.
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Nigerian Prince
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager, joins forces with an internet scammer, in order to return to the United States.
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The Trough
🇯🇵 Japan 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇳🇦 NamibiaYu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands...
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Beautifully Broken
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sA Refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. — As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become interwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Alien Crystal Palace
🇪🇬 EgyptA scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.
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The Burial of Kojo
Africa - GeneralA man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.
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Nefta Football Club
🇹🇳 TunisiaIn the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
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Up North
🇳🇬 NigeriaA young rebellious heir from a wealthy family is sent away to National Service in Northern Nigeria. Things don't quite go according to plan as the spoiled heir begins to find himself.
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
🇳🇬 NigeriaFour promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
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Azali
🇬🇭 GhanaThrust into Accra by circumstances, a 14-year-old girl from northern Ghana must endure life in the slums of Accra and find a way to get back home — 14-year-old Amina from northern Ghana gets sent away to Burkina Faso by her mother to prevent her marriage to an elderly man. However, fate intervenes in the form of kidnappers who bring her to Accra. What trials and tribulations await Amina in the slums of Accra? Will she ever find a way to escape?
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Lagos Real Fake Life
🇳🇬 NigeriaLagos Real Fake Life is a true life comedy movie that showcases the realistic and so so fake lifestyle of some people who reside in, or even visit LAGOS. For some it’s “Stay Content and Wait” and for others its “FAKE it Till you MAKE IT”.
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