81 Films & TV Shows Set In Nigeria
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Doctor Bello
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe cure for cancer has been found... in the sky mountains of Africa... — Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1960sAn epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
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B for Boy
🇳🇬 NigeriaB For Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman's desperate need for a male child; which reveals the discrimination of women in the names of culture and religion.
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Flower Girl
🇳🇬 NigeriaNigerian comedy about a young woman who wants to get married, but her boyfriend is only interested in furthering his career, so she seeks help to get him to tie the knot.
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Portrait of a Lone Farmer
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Lagos Cougars
🇳🇬 NigeriaThree corporate women - Elsie (Monalisa Chinda), Aret (Uche Jombo) and Joke (Daniella Okeke) - in their quest to find love and explore their fantasies.
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Murder At Prime Suites
🇳🇬 NigeriaPrivate detectives are on a mission to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a university student who secretly embarks on a journey to an unknown place unbeknownst to all that know her.
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Stigma
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe daughter of a local midwife has her childhood brought to an abrupt halt when her mother decides to marry a local Lothario. Quickly her new stepfather shows his nasty side including his penchant for other women, theft and alcohol abuse. When her mother's health takes a turn for the worse they are ostracized from the community.
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journey to self
🇳🇬 NigeriaJOURNEY TO SELF is an intense story of friendship, sacrifice, empowerment and self-respect.It tells the story of four friends, Nse (Nse Ikpe-Etim), Regina (Ashionye Michelle-Raccah), Alex (Dakore Akande) and Rume (Katherine Obiang Edoho) who lose a mutual childhood friend, Uche (Tosin Sido). Uche speaks through a series of letters stirring her friends to a journey of self-discovery… a ‘Journey to Self’
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Last Flight to Abuja
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sMid-air difficulties force a Nigerian commercial plane into an emergency landing with devastating consequences.
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Phone Swap
🇳🇬 NigeriaAkin and Mary meet for the first time at an airport where they accidentally bump into each other and mistakenly swap their identical phones . This leads to a destination mix up after they receive one another's text regarding a travel destination. Consequently, Akin ends up traveling to where Mary is supposed to go and vice versa. Neither knows about the swap until they have reached their opposite destinations and "the phone" stops ringing (In Mary's case) and "Won't stop ringing" (In Akins's case) . As a result of the phone swap, they agree to help carry out each other's missions, armed with the information and data on each other's phone. But it's not as easy as they both think as new obstacles and complications rise at every turn as they both struggle to adapt to their alien environment and situation. Mary has to walk in Akins shoes and represent him in a company meeting while Akin has to represent Mary in her the family meeting. This they do with hilarious results
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Black November
California 🇳🇬 NigeriaBlood Will Be Spilled — A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises up and takes drastic measures to make sure their voices are heard.
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Maami
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1980s The 2010sA poor Nigerian woman named Maami protects her young son, Kashimawo, from his father who carries a terrible secret.
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The Meeting
🇳🇬 NigeriaIt was just a meeting until... — Makinde is at the mercy of political patronage when he tries to secure a government contract.
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Men in Love
🇳🇬 NigeriaFew years into their marriage, a young lady discovers her husband is emphatically promiscuous. Situation gets worse when she realises that she is about losing her husband.
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Relentless
🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇸🇱 Sierra LeoneIt's maddening to be alone in a city with 14 million people. — Relentless tells the story of Obi (Gideon Okeke), a Nigerian peacekeeping soldier who has been deployed to war-torn Sierra Leone. Obi's world is crushed after Blessing, a Sierra Leonean woman whom Obi loves, is mutilated by a gang of child soldiers and he's forced to kill her in order to put her out of pain and misery. He eventually returns to Lagos after the war, and tries to reintegrate himself into his community; in the process, he finds solace in the arms of a prostitute, Honey (Nneka Egbuna) who may help him forget his haunting past and lead him to self-discovery.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pennsylvania Nevada Louisiana 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - General 🇨🇦 Canada The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. — After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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The Figurine
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000s The 1900sNo one told them about the next seven years... — Two buddies and a girl, down on their luck, have their lives changed when one of them discovers a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend, bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years...
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Arugbá
🇳🇬 NigeriaAdetutu faces many responsibilities. She must juggle her role as Arugba (the virgin) in the annual community festival with her studies at the university. She must also care for an ailing and grieving friend. Other plot points include Adejare, a demanding king, Adetutu's blossoming musical career, and her growing fondness for a gifted artist named Makinwa which places a strain on Adutu's relationship with the other members of her all female musical group.
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Letters to a Stranger
🇳🇬 NigeriaYou don't have to find a perfect person to experience a perfect love. — Talking to a stranger can be very therapeutic for the fact that you can say exactly how you feel without fear, judgment and insecurity. But what happens when that stranger becomes a reflection of the decision you should make?
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Abeni
🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇧🇯 BeninAbeni is in love with Akanni, the son of Chief Bello's former gateman. But Chief Bello is not in support of his daughter's intention to marry a pauper's son. Will Chief Bello succeed in breaking the bond between the lovebirds?
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Sahara
🇲🇱 Mali 🇳🇪 Niger 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - GeneralDirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name. — Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
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Workingman's Death
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sA documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. — Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulphur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
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Tears of the Sun
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sHe was trained to follow orders. He became a hero by defying them. — Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
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Living in Bondage
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe film tells the story of a man who joins a secret cult, kills his wife in a ritual sacrifice, gains enormous wealth as a reward, and is afterwards haunted by the dead wife's ghost
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