At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.

Africa: The Serengeti

1994

English

7.3

♡ 14

100%

George Casey Director

James Earl Jones as Narrator

The equation of life on the Serengeti is simple: carnivores eat plants, herbivores eat carnivores. Africa: 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 in their annual 500 mile trek across the Serengeti plains

Jungle Woman

1944

English

4.6

♡ 7

20%

Reginald Le Borg Director

Samuel S. Hinds as Coroner

Douglass Dumbrille as District Attorney

Pierre Watkin as Dr. Meredith

Acquanetta as Paula Dupree - the Ape Woman

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

Captive Wild Woman

1943

English

5.4

♡ 4

40%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Lloyd Corrigan as John Whipple

Acquanetta as Paula Dupree -

Tom London as Ship's Captain

Anthony Warde as Tony - Handler

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Lejontämjaren

2003

Swedish

4.8

♡ 3

Manne Lindwall Director

Mirja Turestedt as Anna

Magnus Krepper as Björn Sundström

Lisa Lindgren as Karin Andreasson

Eric Lager as Simon Andreasson

Simon is nine years old and in his world, he has a real lion as a companion. Simon is bullied at school by Alex. Simon is sure he can defeat Alex in team with the lion, but it's just in his imagination. In the real life he has no chance... until one day.

Androcles and the Lion

1952

English

6.0

♡ 3

43%

based on play or musical

Nicholas Ray Director

Alan Young as Androcles

Alex Sharp as Officer

Robert Foulk as Soldier

Charlie Hall as Town Crier

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Malika the Lion Queen

2021

English

6.9

♡ 5

91%

Karin Slater Director

Angela Bassett as Narrator

Follows life of Malika, a lioness in South Africa’s Kruger National Park as she battles to survive.

The Illustrated Man

1969

English

5.8

♡ 9

40%

Jack Smight Director

Rod Steiger as Carl

Claire Bloom as Felicia

Jason Evers as Simmons

Robert Drivas as Willie

A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.

Africa's Super Seven

2005

English

7.2

♡ 1

On the northern bank of the Sand River in the Mala-Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, seven magnificent creatures reside in an area the size of Manhattan Island. Tracking them for 24 hours reveals a never-ending daily drama.

Pride: Ruler's at Risk

2016

English

6.9

♡ 1

Reinhard Radke Director

Only few big cats have been as intensively studied as lions. We thought we knew everything about them. Yet some parts of their lives kept hidden in the dark. Cameras follow two prides and their respective females by day and by night, revealing astonishing behavioral patterns of Africa's largest lions. Symbols of courage and power, lions have been intensively researched for many decades. While hardly a single facet of their lives has gone unnoticed, certain things have remained hidden. Thanks to thermal imaging cameras, this two-part series reveals the last secrets of Africa's largest wild cats. We follow two prides in Southern Kenya and their respective females by day and by night, discovering astonishing behavioral patterns. Lean times face the animals as the huge wildebeest herds, which, until now have supplied the young families with ample food, are migrating south to the Serengeti. We will watch the daily struggle for survival as these mothers risk everything in order to rear ...

Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti

2016

English

4.6

♡ 2

20%

Richard Boddington Director

Ella Ballentine as Emma Croft

Jeri Ryan as Jennifer Croft

Columbus as Lion Thunder

Thunder as Lion

Two kids and their dog must use all their skills to survive in the African bush after a plane crash.

Brothers in Blood: The Lions of Sabi Sand

2015

English

8.5

♡ 9

Daniel Huertas Director

Willem Botha as Self - Assistant Game Warden, Sabi Sand 2005-2009

Chris Renshaw as Self - Field Guide, Singita Game Reserved

Phillip Andrew as Self - Field Guide, Ulusaba Game Reserve

Luke Allen-Gale as Self - Narrator

This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.

Roar

1981

English

6.1

♡ 20

72%

Noel Marshall Director

Zakes Mokae as Committee Member

John Marshall as John

Tippi Hedren as Madelaine

Melanie Griffith as Melanie

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

Living Free

1972

English

6.0

♡ 3

51%

Action

Adventure

africa

based on memoir or autobiography

Jack Couffer Director

Edward Judd as Game Warden Weaver

Nigel Davenport as George Adamson

Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson

Geoffrey Keen as Kendall

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Samson and Delilah

1949

English

6.8

♡ 12

56%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Pierre Watkin as 2nd Priest of Dagon

Robert J. Anderson as Boy

Frank Hagney as Gristmill Guard

Kenneth Gibson as (uncredited)

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

The Naked Prey

1965

English

7.3

♡ 5

86%

Cornel Wilde Director

Ken Gampu as Leader of the Warriors

Cornel Wilde as Man

Richard Mashiya as Warrior

Horace Gilman as Warrior

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.

Secondhand Lions

2003

English

7.5

♡ 27

60%

Tim McCanlies Director

Eugene Osment as Doctor

Michael Caine as Garth

Robert Duvall as Hub

Emmanuelle Vaugier as Jasmine

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

6.9

Claude Lelouch Director

Jeanne Marine as 1ère fiancée de Al

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Sam Lion

Eva-Maria Hagen as (uncredited) Lio

Lio as Yvette, 1ère femme de Sam

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.

African Cats

2010

English

7.5

♡ 35

73%

Alastair Fothergill Director Mara

Mara as Herself

Patrick Stewart as Narrator

Samuel L. Jackson as Narrator

African Cats captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion.