1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Immortal Sergeant
England π±πΎ Libya The 1940sMany heroic stories will come out of this war ... but there will never be a greater one than this ! β During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Five Graves to Cairo
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sDid a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel? β The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
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Nine Men
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThe Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
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The Desert Song
π²π¦ MoroccoThe best loved of all musical adventures! β Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
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Inviati speciali
πͺπΈ Spain πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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Casablanca
π«π· France π²π¦ Morocco The 1940sThey had a date with fate in Casablanca! β In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Massachusetts πͺπ¬ EgyptThe FEAR of the Year! β A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Road to Morocco
π²π¦ MoroccoYou'll Shriek At These Shieks! . . . trying the double - Oh! on Sheikess Dorothy Lamour! β Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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Cairo
πͺπ¬ EgyptThere's never been a pyramid scheme like this! β Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sROMANCE...COMEDY...THRILLS...with Uncle Sam's fighting β Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
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White Cargo
Africa - General The 1910s"I am TONDELAYO" β In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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The Great Impersonation
England Africa - GeneralDARING AS TWO MEN and twice as dangerous BECAUSE HE WAS... β An Englishman (Ralph Bellamy) kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
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Crazy Cruise
Florida π¨πΊ Cuba π¨π Switzerland πͺπ¬ Egypt π¨π© Congo Democratic Republic of the π¨π¬ CongoA collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
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A Yank In Libya
π±πΎ LibyaA ONE-MAN BLITZ! β American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.
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Bengasi
π±πΎ Libya The 1940sThe film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
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Road to Zanzibar
πΉπΏ TanzaniaIT'S THAT GLEESOME THREESOME AGAIN! Giving you your worth in mirth! Toping all the fun in "Road to Singapore!" β Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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Sundown
Africa - GeneralShe was too dangerous to love! β Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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Uncle Kruger
England π¨π Switzerland πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm KrΓΌger (English: Uncle KrΓΌger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie HΓΆflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944
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Carl Peters
England πΉπΏ Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sNational-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900β²s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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Peer Gynt
π²π¦ MoroccoBased on the play by Henrik Ibsen, Gynt, an imaginative young man looked down upon by most everybody, is banished from his village for running away with a bride on her wedding day.
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The Mummy's Hand
πͺπ¬ EgyptThe tomb of a thousand terrors! β A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Anankaβs tomb.
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Song of Aixa
π²π¦ MoroccoAbslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.
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Adventure in Diamonds
πΏπ¦ South AfricaA government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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