1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Mirages
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇿 AlgeriaA star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
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Legions of Honor
🇲🇦 MoroccoAn officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
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S.O.S. Mediterranean
🇲🇦 MoroccoThe scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be engulfed in a cloud of poison smoke released by a smuggling ship.
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Pépé le Moko
🇩🇿 AlgeriaPépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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King Solomon's Mines
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1880sAdventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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Round-Up Time in Texas
🇿🇦 South AfricaTHRILLS With Your Hard-Ridin', Sweet-Singin' Action Ace! — Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene'e brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of badguys.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic — A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Jericho
Africa - General The 1910sA World War I officer who escapes his fate as a black man by fleeing to Africa and creating a new world for himself.
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The High Command
🇮🇪 Ireland Africa - General The 1920sA general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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The Legion of Missing Men
🇲🇦 MoroccoBob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Africa - GeneralTHE GREAT ADVENTURE STRIP HERO COMES TO THE SCREEN! — A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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For Valour
🇿🇦 South Africa England The 1890sIn this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
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Return of a Stranger
England 🇿🇦 South AfricaJames Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
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Trouble in Morocco
🇲🇦 MoroccoA newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.
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Anthony Adverse
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy Africa - General The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! — Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Under Two Flags
🇩🇿 AlgeriaThe World's Most Lovable Love-Team ! — Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
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The Garden of Allah
🇩🇿 AlgeriaTwo loves in conflict! — The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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Song of Freedom
England Africa - GeneralThe Outstanding British Attraction and Star of the Year — John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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We're in the Legion Now
Africa - GeneralA spree of Blondes...and a Hangover of Mirth! — Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.
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