1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Clown of the Jungle
Africa - GeneralIn the African jungle, the narrator introduces us to the various birds living there and to wildlife photographer Donald Duck intent on getting some pictures. Unfortunately, all his attempts to photograph birds are ruined by the "clown of the jungle", the Aracuan Bird. Example: when Donald attempts to photograph a chorus line of hummingbirds, the Aracuan Bird interrupts the picture with a Russian kick dance. Donald becomes aggravated to the point where he gives chase but the bird always manages to outsmart Donald and make short work of his sanity.
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The Crab With the Golden Claws
🇲🇦 MoroccoTintin finds himself involved in a mystery related to a drowned man, a can of crabmeat and a ship called Karaboudjan. After investigating the ship, Tintin discovers that the shipment of cans does not contain exactly crabmeat.
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Slave Girl
🇱🇾 Libya The 1800sA caravan of thrills told with lusty laughter ! — Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Song of Scheherazade
🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1860sA beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Bethsabée
🇲🇦 MoroccoDanielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
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A Night in Casablanca
🇲🇦 Morocco100 Girls! 1,000 Scenes! 10,000 Laffs! — The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
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Temptation
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! — A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Tangier
🇲🇦 MoroccoWHERE EVERY SECRET HAS ITS PRICE...Sometimes Money...Sometimes a Gun...Sometimes a Tangier Woman! — Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton). Dominating the film's hotel-lobby set is an old-fashioned "open" elevator, which will obviously figure prominently in the climax. A camp classic, Tangier is distinguished by supporting actor Sabu's offkey renditions of such American standards as "Polly Wolly Doodle" and "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain"!
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Men of Two Worlds
England 🇹🇿 TanzaniaAn African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land. Three years in the making, Dickinson's film survived the loss of film-stock and equipment when a U-Boat sunk their ship en route to locations in Tanzania.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe most lavish picture ever on the screen! — The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Pursuit to Algiers
England 🇩🇿 AlgeriaAfter the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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José do Telhado
🇦🇴 Angola The 19th CenturyThe legendary life of José Teixeira da Silva, José do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his heroism during the civil war.
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Jungle Queen
Africa - General The 1930sA young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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The Man from Morocco
England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇦 MoroccoWith the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Nabonga
Africa - GeneralA WHITE GIRL RULES THE JUNGLE...HER STRENGTH OF POWER WAS "NABONGA!" — When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
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The Way Ahead
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 1940sFrom Workers — To Warriors — A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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The Mummy's Ghost
Massachusetts 🇪🇬 EgyptNameless! Fleshless! Deathless! — An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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Madagascar Landing
🇲🇬 MadagascarA former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis.
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The Rats of Tobruk
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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The Impostor
🇨🇬 Congo 🇹🇩 Chad The 1940sTHE MOST DANGEROUS MAN A WOMAN EVER LOVED! — The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
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Candlelight in Algeria
🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1940sCome With Us To The Mysterious Casbah, But Don't Expect To Come out Alive — Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
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Dreaming
England Africa - GeneralWhen a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
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Sahara
🇱🇾 Libya The 1940sTheir dramatic story can now be told! — Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Around the World
California 🇱🇾 Libya 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! — Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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