Au nom du Christ

1993

French

6.1

♡ 2

Roger Gnoan M'Bala Director

Innocent Kacou as

Vanassa Kone as

Brice Karrel as

Jean Lokokou as

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid his local villagers of superstition and instead save them for Jesus.

Jane

2017

English

7.8

♡ 14

98%

Brett Morgen Director

Jane Goodall as Herself

Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick as Himself

Hugo Van Lawick as Himself

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

A United Kingdom

2016

English

6.9

♡ 79

83%

77%

Action

africa

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Amma Asante Director

Anastasia Hille as Dot Williams

Nicholas Lyndhurst as George Williams

Rosamund Pike as Ruth Williams

Rupert Vansittart as Sir Ian Fraser

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

Desert Flower

2009

English

7.3

♡ 8

50%

72%

Action

africa

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Sherry Hormann Director

Anthony Mackie as Harold Jackson

Nigel Betts as Home Office Detective

Sally Hawkins as Marilyn

Timothy Spall as Terry Donaldson

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.

Ceasefire

2016

French

6.1

♡ 4

60%

Emmanuel Courcol Director

Romain Duris as Georges Laffont

Céline Sallette as Hélène

Philippe Pierrard as Labadou

Julie-Marie Parmentier as Madeleine

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.

Mighty Joe Young

1949

English

7.0

♡ 9

91%

Ernest B. Schoedsack Director

Joyce Compton as Alice

Addison Richards as City Attorney

Terry Moore as Jill Young

Regis Toomey as John Young

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

Sheena

1984

English

4.9

♡ 11

11%

John Guillermin Director

Louis Mahoney as Elder 1

Donovan Scott as Fletcher

Clifton Jones as King Jabalani

Nick Brimble as Wadman

Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.

Omo Child: The River and the Bush

2015

English

8.3

♡ 3

100%

For many generations people in the Omo Valley (tribal southwest Ethiopia) believed some children are cursed and that these 'cursed' children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe. The curse is called 'mingi' and mingi children are killed. Lale Labuko, a young educated man from the Kara tribe was 15 years old when he saw a child in his village killed and also learned that he had 2 older sisters he never knew who had been killed. He decided one day he would stop this horrific practice. Filmed over a five year period we follow Lale's journey along with the people of his tribe as they attempt to change an ancient practice.

Doctor Bello

2013

English

5.0

60%

nollywood, nigerian cinema

Tony Abulu Director

Vivica A. Fox as

Jimmy Jean-Louis as

Genevieve Nnaji as

Victor Browne as

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.

Oloibiri

2015

English

5.3

♡ 3

international intrigue

oil industry

Thriller

Curtis Graham Director

Olu Jacobs as

Dayton Sinkia as Azu

Richard Mofe-Damijo as Gunpowder

William R. Moses as Powell

This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder and Timipre, two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered.

Liyana

2017

English

7.4

♡ 8

97%

Aaron Kopp Director

Gcina Mhlophe as Self

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Tauw

1970

Wolof

6.8

♡ 5

Ousmane Sembene Director

Mamadou Diagne as Friend

Papa Yoro as Friend

Coumba Mane as Mother

Mamadou M'Bow as Tauw

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.

Sometimes in April

2005

English

7.7

♡ 5

95%

Action

africa

destruction of a civilization

Raoul Peck Director

Idris Elba as Augustin

Peter McRobbie as Bushnell's Superior

Todd Boyce as John

Bill Clinton as Self

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

La via dei babbuini

1974

Italian

5.9

♡ 5

Luigi Magni Director

Fabio Garriba as

Lionel Stander as

Ada Pometti as

Catherine Spaak as Fiorenza

In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.

Mister Bob

6.8

Thomas Vincent Director

David Dukas as Agent de la CIA à lunettes

Olivier Rabourdin as Le commandant du SDECE

Jacques Gombault as Le sergent ivre

Danny Keogh as Walker Van Dick

1965, Bob Denard, even early in his career, Battle in Congo. It strives to make its game in the middle of a bloody civil war fueled by rivalry and ambition postcolonial of a newcomer on the African scene: General Mobutu.

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.

Hyenas

1992

Wolof

7.4

♡ 7

91%

72%

africa

african

based on play or musical

Djibril Diop Mambéty Director

Rama Thiaw as La femme du maire / Mayor's wife

Calgou Fall as Le prêtre / The priest

Mbaba Diop as Le seigneur de la plume / Lord of the feather

Kaoru Egushi as Toko

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

Ashanti

1979

English

5.4

♡ 13

26%

Richard Fleischer Director

Rex Harrison as Brian Walker

Beverly Johnson as Dr. Anansa Linderby

Michael Caine as Dr. David Linderby

Omar Sharif as Prince Hassan

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

The Invisible Ray

1936

English

6.5

♡ 9

63%

Lambert Hillyer Director

Hans Schumm as Clinic Valet

Etta McDaniel as Diane's Safari Attendant

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Felix Benet

Edwards Davis as Scientist

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

Sarafina!

1992

English

6.3

♡ 15

60%

based on play or musical

Darrell Roodt Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Mary Masembuko

Greg Latter as Policeman

Leleti Khumalo as Sarafina

John Kani as School Principal

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

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Au nom du Christ

Jane

A United Kingdom

Desert Flower

Ceasefire

Mighty Joe Young

Sheena

Omo Child: The River and the Bush

Doctor Bello

Oloibiri

Liyana

Tauw

Sometimes in April

La via dei babbuini

Mister Bob

The Illustrated Man

Hyenas

Ashanti

The Invisible Ray

Sarafina!