1,636 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
New York England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇿🇦 South Africa The 2010sA New Age Has Come. — When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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Queen of the Desert
England 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history — A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Virginia District of Columbia England 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇲🇦 MoroccoDesperate Times. Desperate Measures. — Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.
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Chappie
🇿🇦 South AfricaI am consciousness. I am alive. I am Chappie. — Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
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Spectre
Ciudad de México England 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Tokyo Prefecture 🇪🇭 Western Sahara 🇲🇦 Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes — A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Pressure
🇸🇴 SomaliaHold your breath — Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
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Palm Trees in the Snow
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories — Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Beasts of No Nation
Africa - GeneralChild. Captive. Killer. — A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows the journey of Agu as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination. Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, painting a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.
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Singh Is Bliing
🇷🇴 Romania 🇮🇳 India 🇿🇦 South AfricaRaftaar Singh is always looking to have fun and runs away from responsibility. Fed up, his father orders Raftaar to go to Goa and work, and learn to take on responsibility. Once in Goa, he impresses his new boss with his enthusiasm and creative thinking. Soon he gets an assignment, and meets Sara Amy Jackson - and thus begins their unique love story. What ensues is a great comedy of errors, as one hilarious situation after another unfolds. Raftaar falls head over heels for this exotic, mysterious girl. The romance takes a deadly turn when he realizes that Sara is not who he thinks she is and has an agenda, which takes him to Romania. Will Raftaar be able to win her over in a distant and dangerous land?
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Freetown
🇱🇷 LiberiaThe true story of faith, courage, and survival. — A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
🇱🇷 Liberia 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1960sHer story. Her voice. — The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
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The Famous Five 4
🇪🇬 EgyptThe famous five George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog are spending holidays together. But when they are invited by Berhard, father of Julian, Dick and Anne, to visit an egyptian exhibition they see a burglar. They have a look at the mummy the burglar was tempering with to find a golden amulet. The famous five decide to visit Egypt to hand over the amulet. When arriving in Egypt Bernhard is arrested because he's asserted he stole the amulet and replaced it with a fake. Now its up to the young detectives to solve the case and prove their fathers innocence.
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Crumbs
🇪🇹 EthiopiaDormant for decades, a mothership hovering over post-apocalyptic Ethiopia awakens. Resolved to board the craft, a collector of late 20th century pop memorabilia embarks on a surreal journey to uncover its secrets.
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Massu Engira Maasilamani
Quebec 🇹🇿 TanzaniaA conman gains the power to see and communicate with ghosts and decides to use it to make money. His happy-go-lucky lifestyle goes for a toss when a ghost who is his look-alike approaches him with an offer.
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line — A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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Ladygrey
🇿🇦 South AfricaEstelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
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Our House
🇲🇱 MaliBamako. Several women are illegally evicted from their home in 2008. Their brother, Souleymane Cissé, takes up his camera to look back at his childhood and family history in a country heading for war despite a tradition of tolerance.
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Much Loved
🇲🇦 MoroccoA social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
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Lamb
🇪🇹 EthiopiaWhen an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe giant, man-eating Graboids are back and even deadlier than before, terrorizing the inhabitants of a South African wildlife reserve as they attack from below-and above.
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Going Bongo
🇹🇿 TanzaniaDr. Berger happily lands a job at the prestigious Beverly Hills medical centre in Los Angeles and is eager to impress his new boss. After attending a Gala arranged by his superiors, he “mistakenly” volunteers to go work in Africa for a month at an under-resourced hospital. Leaving his fiancé behind, this American Doctor heads out to Tanzania to follow through with his promise.
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Iyore
🇳🇬 NigeriaIyore means “The Return: A Life After Life“. It is based on the history and the culture of the people of Benin, Nigeria. Iyore – a mixture of historical facts and fiction – explores a tragic love story centered on the rich culture of pre-colonial Benin through to the present day of Benin while exploring the supernatural ideas of reincarnation.
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Adama
🇫🇷 France Africa - General The 1910s12 year-old Adama lives in a remote village in West Africa, sheltered by the Cliffs. Out, beyond, lies "the land of breaths", the kingdom of wicked spirits hungry for war. When Samba, his elder brother, suddenly vanishes from the village, Adama decides to set off in search of him. Accompanied first by Abdou, a tragically lucid griot, then by Maximin, a street urchin who is his own negative twin, he crosses a Europe in the grip of war. We're in 1914. Borne by the energy of desperation and the poetry of childhood, Adama travels to the hell of the frontline in order to free his brother. Ultimately, Adama's love for his brother will open an unexpected way to his initiatory journey.
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While You Weren't Looking
🇿🇦 South AfricaDez and Terri, a mixed-race couple married 20 years and adoptive parents, they are the trailblazing lesbians of the New South Africa. But, have these freedoms guaranteed them happiness? Asanda, their 18 year old adopted daughter, is the poster child for South Africa’s diversity but describes herself as “an experiment”, being made up as she goes along. She meets Shado, an enigmatic Tommy Boy from Khayalitsha, a township on the edge of Cape Town, and a different picture of the New South Africa emerges.
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The Man Who Mends Women : The Wrath of Hippocrates
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theWinner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
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