Mercenary Fighters

1988

English

4.6

♡ 4

14%

Riki Shelach Nissimoff Director

Robert DoQui as Col. Kyemba

Fanyana H. Sidumo as Kyemba's Aide

Brümilda van Rensburg as Prostitute

James Mitchum as Wilson Jeffords

The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity, the president doesn't use his army, but hires four international mercenaries, who shall find tribes leader Kuruba and smother the protest. However after learning about the tribes motivation, the Vietnam veterans T.J. and Cliff realize how they're being used and reconsider.

Shaft in Africa

1973

English

5.9

♡ 7

64%

John Guillermin Director

Vonetta McGee as Aleme

Aldo Sambrell as Angelo

Marne Maitland as Col. Gondar

Jacques Marin as Cusset

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

The Professional

1981

French

7.4

♡ 23

81%

husband wife relationship

Georges Lautner Director

Elisabeth Margoni as Jeanne Baumont

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'

Robert Hossein as Le commissaire Rosen

Jean Desailly as Le ministre

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

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.

The Hill

1965

English

7.8

♡ 16

75%

Sidney Lumet Director

Ian Bannen as Harris

Ossie Davis as Jacko King

Sean Connery as Joe Roberts

Roy Kinnear as Monty Bartlett

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

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.

Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale

2022

English

7.5

♡ 17

83%

Renée Godfrey Director

Rege-Jean Page as Narrator

In this wildlife drama, a worsening dry season in the Kalahari Desert leaves prides, packs and herds to rely on the power of family to survive.

Prey

2007

English

4.7

♡ 9

17%

husband wife relationship

lion

parent child relationship

Sci-Fi

sibling relationship

Thriller

Darrell Roodt Director

Bridget Moynahan as Amy Newman

Jamie Bartlett as Crawford

Carly Schroeder as Jessica Newman

Peter Weller as Tom Newman

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

The Great Green Wall

2019

English

7.0

♡ 1

africa

Documentary

environment

Jared P. Scott Director

Big Makhou Djolof as Self

Abu Hawi as Self

Hamzat Lawal as Self

Sekou Coulibaly as Self

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and climate change.

King Solomon's Mines

1950

English

6.7

♡ 9

92%

based on novel or book

Andrew Marton Director

Stewart Granger as Allan Quatermain

Deborah Kerr as Elizabeth Curtis

Richard Carlson as John Goode

Hugo Haas as Van Brun aka Smith

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

Bamako

2006

Bambara

6.7

♡ 2

84%

Abderrahmane Sissako Director

Danny Glover as Cow-boy

Abderrahmane Sissako as Cow-boy

Jean-Henri Roger as Cow-boy

Aïssa Maïga as Melé

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.

The Interpreter

2005

English

6.4

♡ 47

57%

destruction of a civilization

Sydney Pollack Director

David Zayas as Charlie Russell

Nicole Kidman as Silvia Broome

Sean Penn as Tobin Keller

Jossara Jinaro as Voice

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

2007

English

6.7

♡ 4

49%

Dave Willis Director

Tina Fey as Burrito

Bruce Campbell as Chicken Bittle

George Lowe as Space Ghost

Chris Kattan as Walter Melon

An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

OSS 117: From Africa with Love

2021

French

5.8

♡ 15

46%

Nicolas Bedos Director

Laura Sepul as Françoise

Jean Dujardin as Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117

Ibrahim Koma as Promedi

Pierre Niney as Serge, alias Bob Nightingale, alias OSS 1001

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.

The African Queen

1951

English

7.7

♡ 48

96%

John Huston Director

Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut

Theodore Bikel as First Officer

Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer

Walter Gotell as Second Officer

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

2019

English

7.5

♡ 1

83%

Mads Brügger Director

John F. Kennedy as Self

Mads Brügger as Self

Desmond Tutu as Self

Dag Hammarskjöld as Self

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

White Material

2009

French

6.9

♡ 10

86%

Claire Denis Director

Christopher Lambert as André Vial

William Nadylam as Chérif, le maire

Nicolas Duvauchelle as Manuel Vial

Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.

Yeelen

1987

Bambara

6.9

♡ 3

100%

69%

africa

based on myths, legends or folklore

Souleymane Cissé Director

Toumani Soumaoro as

Zan Doumbla as

Dounanke Traoré as

Manzon Coumare as

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Black Emanuelle

1975

Italian

4.6

♡ 21

57%

Bitto Albertini Director

Karin Schubert as Ann Danieli

Isabelle Marchall as Gloria Clifton

Laura Gemser as Mae Jordan / Emanuelle

Maurizio Streccioni as Party Guest

Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot the ruins and wildlife. While there, she explores sexual situations with her hosts and their friends.

I Dreamed of Africa

2000

English

5.6

♡ 6

10%

Hugh Hudson Director

Daniel Craig as Declan Fielding

Nick Boraine as Duncan Maitland

Kim Basinger as Kuki Gallmann

Lance Reddick as Simon

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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Mercenary Fighters

Shaft in Africa

The Professional

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

The Hill

African Cats

Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale

Prey

The Great Green Wall

King Solomon's Mines

Bamako

The Interpreter

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

OSS 117: From Africa with Love

The African Queen

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

White Material

Yeelen

Black Emanuelle

I Dreamed of Africa