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1. Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jean Reno
Votes: 50,525 | Gross: $1.12M
2. Nowhere in Africa (2001)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Votes: 13,983 | Gross: $6.17M
3. O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them. They seek revenge against the middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: the middle class.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Jane Curtin, Paul Dooley
Votes: 1,469 | Gross: $0.03M
4. Trader Horn (1931)
Passed | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Votes: 1,124
5. Kwagga Strikes Back (1990)
92 min | Comedy
Kwagga Robbertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo... See full summary »
Director: David Lister | Stars: Leon Schuster, Bill Flynn, Casper de Vries, Michelle Bestbier
Votes: 375
6. Mama Africa (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary about Miriam Makeba.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Miriam Makeba, Bageot Bah, Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael
Votes: 352 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Benda Bilili! (2010)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary, Music
Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.
Directors: Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye | Stars: Leon Likabu, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Cubain Kabeya
Votes: 825
8. Throw Down Your Heart (2008)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Family, Music
A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.
Director: Sascha Paladino | Stars: Bela Fleck, The Jatta Family, Bassékou Kouyaté, Anania Ngoliga
Votes: 209 | Gross: $0.09M
9. Man No Run (1989)
90 min | Documentary, Music
Les Tetes Brulees play Bikutsi music, an ancient rhythm from the rain- forest region of western Cameroon. Bikutsi is the music of the Beti tribe, traditionally played on a "balafon" and ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Denis
Votes: 36
10. Cuppen (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
During the Football Tournament Gothia Cup Micke and Tshepo meet. Six years later Tshepo has become a football coach while Micke entered a criminal career, specializing in insurance fraud.
Directors: Allan Gustafsson, Rolie Nikiwe | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Wandile Molebatsi, David Boati, Matli Mohapeloa
Votes: 87
11. Tap World (2015)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, History, Music
About ten years ago, a group of us produced a fourteen-minute short film, 'Tap Heat', which film contrasted the traditional tap with the contemporary, as it's being created and performed by... See full summary »
Director: Dean Hargrove | Stars: Jason Samuels Smith, Joshua Johnson, Ivery Wheeler, Ted Louis Levy
Votes: 57 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Viagem aos Makonde (2019 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 - Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that ... See full summary »
Director: Catarina Alves Costa | Stars: Vintani Nafassi, Mbalango, Maybti, Clélio Vilanculus
13. Terra Múzika: Land of Music
Documentary, History, Music | Announced
Eight world-famous Cape Verdean artists host a vérité-style music history docuseries journeying through the country's scene, its legendary and unique beats, as well as its heritage, politics, sense of place, and belonging
14. Free Radicals (1958)
5 min | Animation, Short, Music
Display the graph that follows traditional African music's voice strains of sway, between music and graphics so mix and so gave the impression of beauty in the melting pot of musical art and graphics.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 1,208
15. Fonko (2016)
87 min | Documentary, Music
In the Manding language Fonko means "the thing", in Wolof "to take care of each other". The great musical revolution of today takes place in Africa, where urban club music is merging with ... See full summary »
Directors: Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén, Göran Hugo Olsson | Stars: Nneka Egbuna, Sister Fa, Neo Muyanga, Wanlov The Kubulor
Votes: 61
16. La promesse du biram (2016)
66 min | Documentary
The biram is a traditional musical instrument of the Buduma people of Lake Chad. Malam Maman Barka is one of the last masters of the biram, attributed with sacred powers.
Director: Allamine Kader | Stars: Malam Mamane Barka, Boulama Bokoye, Hawa Kakaye, Adamou Oumarou
17. L'épopée de la musique gabonaise (2012)
51 min | Documentary
Director: Joël Moundounga | Stars: Moryl Placyd Delwami, Gaston Dibasso, Kacky Disco, Cyprien Messilie
18. Waalo Fendo - Là où la terre gèle (1997)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama
Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration. Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese ... See full summary »
Director: Mohammed Soudani | Stars: Saidou Moussa Ba, Baara N'Gom, Souleymane Ndiaye, Oumar Ba
Votes: 20
19. The 17th Annual New Pioneers Awards: King Achilla Orru (2009 Video)
6 min | Short, Documentary
Stars: Baana Afrique, Achilla Orru, Carol Osler
20. Teranga Blues (2007)
95 min | Musical
After being discovered illegally residing in France, a young Senegalese musician is sent home with only 20 euros in his pocket. After a series of poor decisions, he falls into an abyss of ... See full summary »
Director: Moussa Sene Absa | Stars: Lord Alajiman, Juliette Ba, Yakhara Deme, Zeka Laplaine
Votes: 17
22. Nossos Irmãos, os Africanos (1963)
85 min | Documentary, Music
Unofficially sponsored by the Portuguese Government, this documentary is rich in African music and dances, but gives an extended overview of ratiallty integrated black-and-white communities... See full summary »
Director: Ed Keffel
23. They Pretend (2016 Video)
12 min | Short, Musical
Kaylee, a young scavenger in a post-apocalyptic world, lets her emotions get the better of her and trusts the wrong man. Bound and left on the side of the road to fend for herself in the ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Schumacher | Stars: Ginger Ferguson, Lynn Fritts, K-Bass, Robert Linden
24. Owiny Sigoma Band: Nyanza (2015)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Director: Ivan Ogilvie | Stars: Jesse Hackett, Charles Owoko, Louis Hackett, Tom Skinner
25. Rock Music Rock Art (2008)
42 min | Documentary, Short, Music
On a remote island in lake Victoria, a group of British classical and Ugandan folk musicians reawaken forgotten prehistoric rock gongs in an adventurous cultural exchange.
Directors: Martin Briggs-Watson, Zuleika Kingdon
26. Juluka: December African Rain (1983 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu, Zola Mtiya
27. Peter Gabriel & Youssou N'Dour: Shaking the Tree (1990 Music Video)
6 min | Music
Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour
Votes: 22
28. Juluka: Kilimanjaro (1984 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu, Gary Van Zyl
30. Juluka: Fever (1984 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Johnny and Sipho dancing around London in the night.
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu
31. Juluka: Umbaqanga Music (1983 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Scorpion Madondo, Sipho Mchunu
32. Tarig Abubakar & The Afro Nubians: El Maadi (1997 Music Video)
7 min | Music
Stars: Tarig Abubakar, The Afro Nubians, Pa Joe
33. Juluka: Ibhola Lethu (1984 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Derek de Beer, Sipho Mchunu
34. Geoffrey Oryema: Land of Anaka (1990 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Stars: Geoffrey Oryema, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel
36. Juluka: Love Is Just A Dream (1997 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu
37. Juluka: Scatterlings of Africa (1983 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Stars: Juluka, Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mchunu, Zola Mtiya
38. African Guitar Summit: Mwembo (2005 Music Video)
6 min | Music
Stars: African Guitar Summit, Mighty Popo
41.
Skins (2007–2013)
Episode:
Thomas
(2009)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama
Thomas arrives in Bristol from the Congo with his parents to follow him, but after sleeping in an empty flat he falls foul of its owner, John White, who demands money. Pandora takes a ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Massey | Stars: Merv Lukeba, Ollie Barbieri, Luke Pasqualino, Megan Prescott
Votes: 787
42.
Later... With Jools Holland (1992– )
Episode:
Episode #6.5
(1995)
Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Jools Holland, Paul Arthurs, David Bowie, Aztec Camera
43.
60 Minutes (1968– )
Episode:
The Surfside Mystery/The Paper Brigade/Sona and the Kora
(2022)
TV-PG | Documentary, News
A 12-story beachfront condominium collapses; resistance fighters risk their lives to save Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust; Sona Jobarteh, the first female virtuoso player of... See full summary »
Stars: Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim, Lesley Stahl, Glenn Bell
Votes: 15
44.
NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2009– )
Episode:
Angélique Kidjo: Tiny Desk Concert
(2022)
20 min | Music
The inspiring Angélique Kidjo graces the Tiny Desk for our 1,000th concert.
Director: Kara Frame | Stars: Angélique Kidjo, Sampa the Great, Cassondra James Kellam, Stephanie Fisher Alvareng
45.
Histoire d'un instrument (1962–1964)
Episode:
Les tambours
(1963)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Director: Maurice Beuchey | Stars: Djamchid Chemirani, Espanita Cortez, Phuong Dung Dang, L'Orchestre de la Garde républicaine