African Film Watchlist
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1. Black Girl (1966)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene
Votes: 6,024
2. Touki Bouki (1973)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture
Votes: 4,104
3. The Blazing Sun (1954)
TV-14 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi
Votes: 1,559
4. Come Back, Africa (1959)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Stars: Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba, Lewis Nkosi
Votes: 358
5.
Disappearing World (1970– )
Episode:
The Wodaabe
(1988)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Leslie Woodhead
6. Afrique 50 (1950)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier
Votes: 321
7. Moi, un noir (1958)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga
Votes: 1,098
8. Doa al karawan (1959)
109 min | Drama, Romance
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 1,970
9. La pyramide humaine (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
The arrival of Nadine, a new student, at a school in Abidjan is the starting point for a discussion about interracial relationships.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Nadine Ballot, Denise, Elola, Jean-Claude
Votes: 366
10. Borom sarret (1963)
20 min | Short, Drama
Boron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Ly Abdoulay, Albourah
Votes: 1,521
11. Niaye (1964)
35 min | Drama, Short
The pregnancy of a young girl scandalizes her community.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Serigne Sow, Astou N'Diaye, Mame Dia, Modou Sène
Votes: 113
12. El haram (1965)
105 min | Drama
A poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 602
13. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,694 | Gross: $0.06M
14. Le retour d'un aventurier (1966)
34 min | Short, Western
Back from the US to his village in Niger, a man brings western outfits to his close friends, who immediately identify with cow-boys. A bloody western begins in the savannah...
Director: Moustapha Alassane | Stars: Harouna Diarra, Djingarey Abdoulaye Maïga, Zalika Souley, Boubakar Souna
Votes: 105
15. La chasse au lion à l'arc (1966)
80 min | Documentary
A group of West African hunters embark on a ritual hunt, tracking a pride of lions which has been attacking their cattle.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Tahirou Koro, Issiaka Moussa, Belébia Moussa, Wangari Moussa
Votes: 245
16. Oh, Sun (1970)
98 min | Drama
A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.
Director: Med Hondo | Stars: Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise M'Bia, Gabriel Glissant
Votes: 836
17. Mandabi (1968)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from... See full summary »
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture
Votes: 1,464
18. The Mummy (1969)
102 min | Drama
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
Director: Chadi Abdel Salam | Stars: Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Votes: 1,857
19. Cabascabo (1969)
45 min | Drama
Cabascabo, a veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina, returns to his home town in Niger, acclaimed by friends and relatives. In fragmented flash-backs, he tells the story of his adventure and the battles in that distant land.
Director: Oumarou Ganda | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Zalika Souley, Balarabi, Issa Gombokoye
Votes: 70
20. Badou Boy (1970)
56 min | Comedy
Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Lamine Ba, Al Demba Ciss, Christoph Colomb, Gaby Diallo
Votes: 201
21. The Eloquent Peasant (1970)
21 min | Short, Drama
Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of Egyptian literature, The Eloquent Peasant is a combination of a morality/folk tale and a ... See full summary »
Director: Chadi Abdel Salam | Stars: Ahmad Anan, Ahmad Hegazi, Ahmed Marei
Votes: 236
22. The Land (1970)
130 min | Drama
A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed
Votes: 2,453
23. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970)
65 min | Documentary
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray
Votes: 547
24. Emitai (1971)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Andongo Diabon, Robert Fontaine, Michel Renaudeau, Ousmane Camara
Votes: 478
25. Le wazzou polygame (1971)
50 min | Drama
An Islamic faithful returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title "el hajji". On his return he falls in love with his daughter's friend Santou, who is already engaged ... See full summary »
Director: Oumarou Ganda | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Joseph Salamatou, Zalika Souley
Votes: 78
27. Cocorico Monsieur Poulet (1974)
93 min | Comedy
The story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey. When a third person joins the group, the organization of the trip begins to look even more precarious.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia, Tallou Mouzourane, Claudine
Votes: 183
28. Xala (1975)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne
Votes: 1,939
29. Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
150 min | Drama
In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surround them.
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Kasu Asfaw, Gebru Kasa, Worke Kasa, Melaku Makonen
Votes: 226
30. Babatu (1976)
95 min | Biography, War
Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the country and settled there. The brave prisoners... See full summary »
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Lam Ibrahim Dia, Diama, Oumarou Ganda, Mariama
Votes: 14
31. Outsiders (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Tabata Ndiaye, Alioune Fall, Moustapha Yade, Matoura Dia
Votes: 1,094
32. La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979)
115 min
Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other ... See full summary »
Director: Assia Djebar
Votes: 52
34. Blood Wedding (1977)
80 min | Drama
In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Based on Federico García Lorca's play.
Director: Souheil Ben-Barka | Stars: Irene Papas, Laurent Terzieff, Djohra Bachene, Miloud Habachi
Votes: 29
35. Too Early/Too Late (1981)
G | 100 min | Documentary
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Votes: 667
36. Wend Kuuni (1982)
75 min | Drama
In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him ... See full summary »
Director: Gaston Kaboré | Stars: Serge Yanogo, Rosine Yanogo, Joseph Nikiema, Colette Kaboré
Votes: 271
37. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 465
38. Sur les traces du renard pâle (Recherches en pays Dogon, 1931-1983) (1984)
48 min | Documentary, History
Director: Luc de Heusch
Votes: 9
39. Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (1985)
135 min | Documentary
Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha | Stars: Barbara Christian, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Linda Peckham
Votes: 40
40. Une femme en Afrique (1985)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.
Director: Raymond Depardon | Star: Françoise Prenant
Votes: 135
41. Visages de femmes (1985)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.
Director: Désiré Ecaré | Stars: Sidiki Bakaba, Kouadou Brou, Albertine N'Guessan, Eugénie Cissé-Roland
Votes: 101
42. Sarraounia (1986)
120 min | Drama, History, War
On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ... See full summary »
Director: Med Hondo | Stars: Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Didier Sauvegrain
Votes: 200
43. Yeelen (1987)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
Director: Souleymane Cissé | Stars: Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo, Balla Moussa Keita
Votes: 2,754
44. Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
157 min | Drama, War
In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Directors: Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow | Stars: Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé
Votes: 644
45. Mortu Nega (1988)
85 min | Drama, War
The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally ... See full summary »
Director: Flora Gomes | Stars: Bia Gomes, Tunu Eugenio Almada, Mamadu Uri Balde, Pedro da Silva
Votes: 100
46. The Citadel (1988)
96 min | Drama
In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father, who guarantees that his son will be ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Chouikh | Stars: Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Yamina Bachir, Mohamed Baki, Khaled Barkat
Votes: 83
47. Le neveu du peintre (1989)
29 min | Short
Director: Moustapha Dao | Star: Oumarou Kabore
Votes: 8
48. Yaaba (1989)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother)... See full summary »
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo
Votes: 756
49. The Law (1990)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ... See full summary »
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry, Assane Ouédraogo
Votes: 669
50. Guelwaar (1992)
115 min | Drama
Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor. A satiric portrayal of religion and politics, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Abou Camara, Marie Augustine Diatta, Yama Diedhiou, Mame Ndoumbé Diop
Votes: 407 | Gross: $0.06M
51. Hyenas (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $0.02M
52. Sankofa (1993)
125 min | Drama
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and ... See full summary »
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Kofi Ghanaba, Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah, Nick Medley
Votes: 809 | Gross: $2.69M
53. Madame L'Eau (1993)
120 min
Three African friends travel from their drought stricken Niger to an inundated Holland (where they learn about sustainable low tech windmills) and back again in this act of collaborative filmmaking suffused with improvisation and humor.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia, Tallou Mouzourane, Wineke Onstwedder
Votes: 26
54. Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994)
60 min | Documentary
Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
Directors: Manthia Diawara, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Stars: Manthia Diawara, Ousmane Sembene, John Singleton
Votes: 49
55. Le Franc (1994)
Not Rated | 46 min | Comedy
A broke and dopey musician, constantly harassed by his exasperated landlady, glues his lottery ticket to his door and when it turns out to be a winner must carry his door to the lottery office.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Dieye Ma, Aminata Fall, Demba Bâ
Votes: 322
56. The Silences of the Palace (1994)
116 min | Drama
As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
Director: Moufida Tlatli | Stars: Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi, Amel Hedhili
Votes: 1,109
57. Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? (1996)
165 min | Documentary
Miscellaneous images of African life.
Director: Raymond Depardon
Votes: 68
58. Mossane (1996)
105 min | Drama
Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag her ... See full summary »
Director: Safi Faye | Stars: Magou Seck, Isseu Niang, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara
Votes: 138
59. A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French ... See full summary »
Director: Férid Boughedir | Stars: Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan, Sarah Pariente, Mustapha Adouani
Votes: 853
60. Genesis (1999)
102 min | Drama
Inspired by the book of Genesis, this film tells the power struggle between two families: a clan of herders led by Jacob and another clan of hunters fronted by his brother Esau.
Director: Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Stars: Sotigui Kouyaté, Salif Keïta, Balla Moussa Keita, Fatoumata Diawara
Votes: 239
61. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
Not Rated | 45 min | Drama, Family
A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Dieynaba Laam
Votes: 866
62. Faat Kiné (2001)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé, Awa Sene Sarr, Tabata Ndiaye
Votes: 374 | Gross: $0.02M
63. Waiting for Happiness (2002)
90 min | Drama, Music
The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed, Fatimetou Mint Ahmeda
Votes: 1,095 | Gross: $0.00M
64. Nha Fala (2002)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than... See full summary »
Director: Flora Gomes | Stars: Fatou N'Diaye, Jean-Christophe Dollé, Ângelo Torres, Bia Gomes
Votes: 211
65. Dry Season (2006)
96 min | Drama
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a ... See full summary »
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine, Khayar Oumar Defallah
Votes: 982
66. Juju Factory (2007)
97 min | Drama
Kongo is writing a book on the subject of immigrants but while his editor wants a kind of traveler's book in which ethnic exotic ingredients are offered to a European audience, Kongo has ... See full summary »
Director: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda | Stars: Dieudonné Kabongo, Carole Karemera, Katik Donatien Bakomba, Emile Abossolo M'bo
Votes: 30
67. Teza (2008)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and ... See full summary »
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Aaron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene, Teje Tesfahun
Votes: 630
68. White Material (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 8,428 | Gross: $0.30M
69. Looking for Muhyiddin (2014)
183 min | Drama
A man (played by the filmmaker Nacer Khemir) returns home to Tunisia to bury his mother. After the burial, his father gives him an "amana" to be handed to a certain Sheikh named Muhyiddin. ... See full summary »
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Denis Gril, Nacer Khemir, Gabriele Manndelkhan
Votes: 45
70. Date Wine (1998)
110 min | Drama, Romance
This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial '... See full summary »
Director: Radwan El-Kashef | Stars: Seif Abdelrahman, Manal Afifi, Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib
Votes: 582
71. Cairo Station (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 5,355
72. Bab el shams (2004)
278 min | Romance, Drama, War
In the beginning was Palestine, and the story of Younes (Orwa Nyrabia) began, known as Abou Salem, known as the Man, said to be the father of Ibrahim, fighting the English from the age of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabia, Basel Khayyat, Hala Omran
Votes: 403
73. Voyage au Congo (1927)
94 min | Documentary
A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret
Votes: 55
74. Mueda, Memoria e Massacre (1979)
80 min | Drama
On 16 June 1960 in Mueda, Mozambique, the Portuguese army executed six hundred inhabitants on the orders of the Portuguese governor. Since the country's independence, Mueda's residents ... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Romao Canapoquele, Filipe Gunoguacala, Mauricio Machimbuco, Baltazar Nchilema
Votes: 63
75. Rivers of Sand (1974)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia. The film is an attempt to disclose not only the activities of the Hamar, but... See full summary »
Director: Robert Gardner
Votes: 33
76. La cage (1963)
85 min | Drama
After studying medicine in France, David comes back to his native Gabon to treat his compatriots. He meets Oyana, his former sweetheart, and both laugh at the old-fashioned traditions. The ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Darène | Stars: Marina Vlady, Jean Servais, Philippe Mory, Muriel David
Votes: 23
77. Another Sky (1954)
86 min | Drama
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Director: Gavin Lambert | Stars: Catherine Lacey, Ahmed Ben Mohammed, Lee Montague, Victoria Grayson
Votes: 114
78. Monangambé (1968)
16 min | Short
Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Carlos Pestana, Noureddine Dreis, Mohamed Zinet, Athmane Sabi
Votes: 75
79. Sambizanga (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Votes: 774
80. Unsere Afrikareise (1966)
13 min | Short
A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 771
81. Lettres d'amour en Somalie (1982)
95 min | Documentary
It is a trip to Somalia during the summer of 1981 made by Frédéric Mitterand. Letters of love to a loved one, absent. The film mixes the collective history of Somalia with that of the narrator.
Director: Frédéric Mitterrand | Star: Frédéric Mitterrand
Votes: 31
82. Little Senegal (2000)
97 min | Drama
After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Karim Traoré
Votes: 439
83. Les mille et une mains (1973)
90 min | Drama
In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. So begins this story in the hands of thousands of old men, women and children involved in meticulous weaving carpets.
Director: Souheil Ben-Barka | Stars: Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed, Aicha El Ghazi
Votes: 76
84. The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1970 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Film about the doctors that fly all over central Africa to bring medical help to the people living in the bush.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: James Kabale, Wilfried Klaus, Betty Miller, Karl Hans Röttcher
Votes: 511
85. Safrana or Freedom of Speech (1978)
110 min | Drama
Director: Sidney Sokhona | Stars: Joseph Akouissone, Maurice Alezra, Béatrice Boffety, Patrick Demeester
Votes: 12
86. Nationalité immigré (1976)
85 min | Drama
A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed in the most arduous and dangerous jobs.
Director: Sidney Sokhona | Stars: Sidney Sokhona, Jacques Ruisseau, Constant Hames, Frank Valmont
Votes: 13
87. The Heart's Cry (1994)
86 min | Drama
Moctar lives in Mali with his mother Saffi and his ailing grandfather. One day, Saffi receives a letter from France which overwhelms her with happiness. Ibrahim Sow, her husband and ... See full summary »
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi, Alex Descas
Votes: 75
88. City of Contrasts (1969)
22 min | Short
A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists, and especially the influence of France's culture and ... See full summary »
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 152
89. Letter from My Village (1976)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
Director: Safi Faye | Stars: Assane Faye, Maguette Gueye, Safi Faye
Votes: 91
90. Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres (1978)
70 min | Documentary
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.
Directors: Borhane Alaouié, Lotfi Thabet | Star: Hassan Fathy
Votes: 21
91. The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (1983)
57 min
his film essay pieces together various photographs and footage of the Zerda ceremony from colonial archives, with anonymous poetic voice-overs recounting the lived experiences of indigenous Algerians.
Director: Assia Djebar
Votes: 34
92. Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire (2001)
50 min | Documentary, History
EGYPT'S GOLDEN EMPIRE comes to life through letters and records evoking the passion and riches of a time when Egypt was the center of the known world, its Pharaohs called gods, and great cities, temples and tombs built.
Stars: Keith David, Peter Egan, John Shrapnel, Paula Wilcox
Votes: 177
93. The Rise of the Black Pharaohs (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
From PBS - Around 800 BC, Kush, a little-known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered the Egyptians, enthroned its own Pharaohs, and ruled over the empire of King Tut for nearly 100 ... See full summary »
Director: James Barrat | Star: Kevin Collins
Votes: 51
94. The Battle of Algiers, a Film Within History (2017)
117 min | Documentary
The Battle of Algiers is one of the most celebrated films of all time. Made in 1966, it documented Algeria's war for independence. Returning to the roots of the production and the ... See full summary »
Director: Malek Bensmaïl | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Gillo Pontecorvo, Yacef Saadi
Votes: 34
95. The Walls of Sana'a (1971)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary footage of the city of Sana'a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city's architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Star: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 394
96. La goumbe des jeunes noceurs (1966)
27 min | Documentary, Short
This short documents the preparation of a musical event, a ritual associated in this African community with a marriage ceremony.
Director: Jean Rouch
Votes: 20
97. Middle of the Moment (1995)
80 min | Documentary
The film is a documentary or even a cinepoem which follows the life of nowadays nomads: The Tuareg in North Africa, a circus company and the American philosopher and poet 'Robert Lax'.
Directors: Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel | Stars: Robert Lax, Aghail Ag Rhissa, Mutu Walat Rhabidine, Johann Le Guillerm
Votes: 67
98. The Long Holiday (2000)
145 min | Documentary
After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming... See full summary »
Director: Johan van der Keuken
Votes: 118
99. Elsewhere (2001)
240 min | Documentary
During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 143
100. An Egyptian Story (1982)
TV-MA | 115 min | Drama
In the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of the attempted murder of his new self. Through the ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Mehrez
Votes: 1,299
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