1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Beau Geste
England Africa - GeneralMichael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni
Africa - GeneralBartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.
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Salammbรด
๐น๐ณ Tunisia Ancient HistoryBased on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.
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Shadow of Egypt
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptA European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
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The Fortieth Door
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptPlenty of adventure in the desert, with "villains dashing madly across deserts with the lives of both the hero and the heroine at stake, - long underground avenues, trick doors, trap doors and many ways of the unruly villains to torture the innocent." ( Variety - 1924 )
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Wages of Virtue
๐ฉ๐ฟ AlgeriaA carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
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Bella Donna
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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The Call of the East
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptIn Egypt a man fails to shoot his faithless wife and walks into a sandstorm.
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The Sheik
๐ฉ๐ฟ AlgeriaA photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief! โ Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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L'Atlantide
Africa - General Atlantic Ocean ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1910sTwo men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Africa - GeneralTarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
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The Five Accursed Gentlemen
๐น๐ณ TunisiaWhen five gentlemen humiliate a merchant in a Tunisian bazaar, the latter curses them, telling them the order of their deaths within a given time frame. The men begin to die in the order they were chosen...
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The Eyes of the Mummy
๐ช๐ฌ EgyptJannings and Negri are Egyptians involved in a scam milking tourists out of their money, by having the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus! When a British lord and adventurer comes to visit, she falls in love and leaves with him to England. Needless to say, Jannings โ who, naturally, has feelings for Negri himself โ follows them (conveniently in the employ of another English aristocrat and friend to Liedtke) in order to exact his revenge.
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Bound in Morocco
๐ฒ๐ฆ MoroccoThe camels are coming! โ A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
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Inside the Lines
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1910sA spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.
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Winning a Continent
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1830sThis epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boersโ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
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Cabiria
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCAll Nations Bow to This - The Greatest Spectacle the World Has Seen! โ Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
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Captured by Bedouins
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