85 Films & TV Shows Set In Kenya
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The Dreams of Elibidi
🇰🇪 KenyaThe story of two brothers who travel to Nairobi to find work
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Togetherness Supreme
🇰🇪 KenyaIf you can't change the world, change yourself. — Based on true events and the ethnic conflict that tore apart a country. TOGETHERNESS SUPREME is the story of Kamau, an artist, searching for change in the midst of ethnic tension in the slums. Kamau goes against his father and his tribe to join the other side with his friend Otieno. Kamau and Otieno fight for political change for those living in dire poverty. After a presidential contested election, the slums erupt in violence and Kamau's world is tore apart.
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The Ode
🇰🇪 KenyaA young, gay Indian flees to Hollywood, away from an overprotective mother and memories of his father's violent death. A successful banker by day, at night his life unravels in a blur of alcohol, drugs, and sex as he grapples with love, loss and ultimately, forgiveness. Based on actual events and the acclaimed novel by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla.
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The Constant Gardener
England 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇰🇪 KenyaLove. At any cost. — Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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The White Masai
🇰🇪 KenyaA girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.
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Massaï, les guerriers de la pluie
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 TanzaniaAfter a lion kills the village leader, the expected rains fail to arrive, so a group of warriors are sent to hunt the lion down and kill it in hopes that the rains will come at last.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Shanghai 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇪 KenyaAdventuress Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box — Lara Croft ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box but, after securing it, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara must recover the box before the syndicate's evil mastermind uses it to construct a weapon of catastrophic capabilities.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
England 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia 🇰🇪 Kenya The 1890sThe power of seven become a league of one. — To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the Africa - GeneralYou don't need extraordinary powers to do extraordinary things. — Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza might have to give up her power to talk to animals....
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Company
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇪 Kenya 🇿🇦 South AfricaA Law & Order Enterprise — Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
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Nowhere in Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940s The 1930sOne family's tale of a homeland lost... and a homeland found. — A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
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I Dreamed of Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1970s The 1980sSometimes the adventure of a lifetime becomes life itself. — Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1950sThe story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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To Walk with Lions
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1980sDrama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
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Africa's Elephant Kingdom
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 TanzaniaThis film explores an elephant clan's search for food and water as seen through the eyes of one old bull.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1890sPrey For The Hunters — Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Africa: The Serengeti
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 Tanzania Africa - GeneralAfrica the Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes as in their annual 500 mile trek across the Serengeti plains.
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The Air Up There
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1990sJimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
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The Ascent
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sThe real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fuelled by honor and their love for the same woman.
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Vishwatma
🇰🇪 KenyaTwo brave and smart young men: namely Police inspector Prabhat Singh (Sunny Deol) and a reformed criminal Akash Bhardwaj (Chunkey Pandey) is sent to the African country of Kenya in order to apprehend the underworld criminal Azghar Jhorat (Amrish Puri). He is a criminal in India but his whereabouts is known in Kenya. While in Kenya they reaches up with a stern Kenyan police officer who is of Indian origin Surya Pratap Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), it is his duty to make Prabhat and Akash abide by the Kenyan laws but to capture Azghar both is forced to break the laws and gets into confrontation with Surya where a misunderstood is created. Will Akash and Prabhat be able to fulfilled there duties towards there country or will they leave there mission half way and run like cowards?
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Cheetah
🇰🇪 KenyaAn American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.
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Nukie
🇰🇪 KenyaA Magical Space Adventure — Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
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The Kitchen Toto
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1950sThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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White Mischief
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sIn a world of wife swapping, drugs and chocolate covered lobsters, murder seemed so uncivilised. — A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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The Happy Valley
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sIn 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
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