1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Bachaana
🇲🇺 MauritiusA bubbly Indian girl Aalia in trouble is forced by circumstances to place her faith in a Pakistani cab driver, Vicky, in Mauritius, who then takes it upon himself to make Aalia's safe return to India possible. Mauritius.
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Allied
England 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1940sThe enemy is listening. — In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foley’s close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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Bad Black
🇺🇬 UgandaThe Wakaliwood saga continues — A mild-mannered 'muzungu' doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by his no-nonsense, pint-sized sidekick. Meanwhile, Bad Black and her gang of drug-pushing musicians navigate the choppy waters of Ugandan life- and climb the ladder of its underworld- in this sprawling Wakaliwood epic.
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One Man and his Cow
🇩🇿 AlgeriaAn Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
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Good Luck Sam
🇩🇿 AlgeriaSamir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. When the contract fails, his business partner and closest friend plans to save their company by sending Samir to represent Algeria at the Winter Olympics! Already broke, and expecting his second child, Samir trains to become the first Algerian cross-country skiing male athlete to participate in the winter games. Samir, the eldest son of an Algerian emigrant must first go back to his father's homeland in order to achieve this goal.
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Divorce French Style 2
🇷🇪 RéunionTwo years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.
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Clash
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sConflict is on the inside — In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
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Dry Hot Summers
🇪🇬 EgyptTwo lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.
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Green White Green
🇳🇬 NigeriaA coming of age a story about 3 young boys from Nigeria's major ethnic groups on an adventure to make a short film inspired by the history of Nigeria.
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76
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1970sNollywood superstars Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic, and Chidi Mokeme headline this gripping drama set against the backdrop of the attempted 1976 military coup against the government of General Murtala Mohammed.
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93 Days
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2010swhat happens when the most lethal and contagious disease known to man arrives in a mega city of over 20 million people? — Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
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The Wedding Party
🇳🇬 NigeriaA lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.
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Honey 3: Dare to Dance
🇿🇦 South AfricaWhile attending college in Cape Town, Melea Martin feels constrained by the school's strict policies, and decides to set out on her own. Searching for a way to use her talents as a dancer and inspire the community around her, Melea rents a failing theater in order to put on a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet performance. But much like the Capulets and Montagues, conflicts between cast members threaten to bring the whole performance to a halt...
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Wùlu
🇲🇱 MaliMalian-French director Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller. Wùlu tells the unsettling tale of a man's rise from the bottom rung of the social ladder to the heights of criminal power.
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Tout, tout de suite
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 2000sThis gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.
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Saansein: The Last Breath
🇲🇺 MauritiusShirin, a singer mysteriously disappears. Abhay looks for Shirin and tries to solve this mysterious incident.
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Game of Aces
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1910sA rescue attempt of a German traitor during World War I has unexpected consequences and sets off an adventure across the Arabian desert.
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Mandela's Gun
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1960sMANDELAS GUN is a political thriller, based on Mandelas African Odyssey.
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Like Cotton Twines
🇬🇭 GhanaWe are the keepers of our freedom. — An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
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The African Who Wanted to Fly
🇨🇳 China 🇬🇦 GabonToday he is a star of dozens of kung fu films and working behind the camera with Jackie Chan's crew. But how Luc Bendza, born in a small Gabonese town, became a kung fu master in an art that didn't count any African before him? This is the story of a kid who wanted to fly like Chinese fighters, so passionate he tackled his destiny and entered the legendary Shaolin Temple at the age of 15. His saga begins when he's 10 and starts shooting his own kung fu films with his friends in the streets of Koulamoutou.
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The Hidden Sky
🇳🇦 NamibiaHermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.
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Happiness is a Four-Letter Word
🇿🇦 South AfricaPerfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, black female partner in a major firm, marriage, the perfect house - but it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.
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Ojukokoro (Greed)
🇳🇬 NigeriaGreed — Ojukokoro tells the story of what happens when a broke manager in a money laundering petrol station, decides to rob the petrol station that employs him but along this journey finds out that there are different kinds of criminals that are also interested in the same cash.
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It's Her Day
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter a man promises his fiancé a dream wedding, he must keep up with her outrageous requests to have the most lavish ceremony possible.
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