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1. The Woman King (2022)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Drama, History
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim
Votes: 73,355 | Gross: $67.33M
2. The Last Face (2016)
R | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the midst of African social horror, a love between two volunteers fades out and is reborn.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem, Brandon Phillips, Anna Strelkov
Votes: 5,535
3. Atlantics (2019)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou
Votes: 10,521
4. Clean Slate (1981)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 6,722
5. Cobra Verde (1987)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile
Votes: 8,449
6. 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: 4,113
7. Greed in the Sun (1964)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rough trucker assigns his new truck and its mysterious cargo to his newest employee, only to see it hijacked by one of his experienced drivers. Now, his friends are after him to retrieve the goods. Are 100,000 dollars worth dying for?
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Reginald Kernan, Bernard Blier
Votes: 2,725
8. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 1,395
9. The Dead (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
Directors: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford | Stars: Rob Freeman, Prince David Osei, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe
Votes: 9,646
10. Vitalina Varela (2019)
124 min | Drama
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito
Votes: 2,472
11. 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: 2,758
12. Shocking Africa (1982)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Kenneth Belton
Votes: 130
13. Gold Coast (2015)
114 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1836 the Danish romantic visionary Wulff travels to Africa to create plantations on the Gold Coast, but his best intentions and belief is soon confronted with a harsh reality dominated by slave trade and unbelievable brutality.
Director: Daniel Dencik | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Danica Curcic, John Aggrey, Luise Skov
Votes: 711
14. Somewhere Near Conakry (1992)
78 min | Drama
1971: Guinea, thirteen years after independence. A revolutionary storm is brewing on the streets of the city of Fria. Somewhere near Conakry - Children play, far from the adults' worries. ... See full summary »
Director: Françoise Ebrard | Stars: Damien MacDonald, Ibrahim Oury Bah, Pascal N'Zonzi, Philippe Jutteau
Votes: 52
15. Restless City (2011)
R | 80 min | Drama, Music
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
Director: Andrew Dosunmu | Stars: Hervé Diese, Momo Dione, Lenore Thomas Douglas, Ger Duany
Votes: 275
16. Koran by Heart (2011)
TV-G | 90 min | Documentary, News
A global contest reading of the Quran by young Muslim children that takes place in Cairo, Egypt annually during Ramadan. A coming of age story about Muslim kids in modern times.
Director: Greg Barker
Votes: 382
17. Break Free: Two People. Two Years. One Dream (2019)
120 min | Documentary, Adventure
When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ... See full summary »
Director: Lena Wendt | Stars: Ulrich Stirnat, Lena Wendt, Fufu, Ziza
Votes: 254
18. Anansi (2002)
80 min | Drama
From Ghana to a deserted coast - from Morocco to Spain - out of desperate need, a group of West Africans dare the perilous journey to Germany. But their path to the promised land of ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Baumann | Stars: George Quaye, Naomie Harris, Jimmy Akingbola, Maynard Eziashi
Votes: 51
19. Ceasefire (2016)
103 min | Drama, History
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the ... See full summary »
Director: Emmanuel Courcol | Stars: Romain Duris, Céline Sallette, Grégory Gadebois, Julie-Marie Parmentier
Votes: 543
20. 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
21. The Language You Cry In (1998)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, History
THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of ... See full summary »
Directors: Angel Serrano, Alvaro Toepke | Star: Vertamae Grosvenor
Votes: 33
22. Nothing Like Chocolate (2012)
63 min | Documentary
Deep in the rain forests of Grenada, anarchist chocolatier Mott Green seeks solutions to the problems of a ravaged global chocolate industry. Solar power, employee shareholding and ... See full summary »
Director: Kum-Kum Bhavnani | Stars: Bama Athreya, Edmond Brown, Crystal, Mott Green
Votes: 38
23. Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o (2019 TV Movie)
Documentary
Journey across Benin, West Africa to uncover the 'Agoji' ( a forgotten female army) - or as Europeans labeled them, the 'Amazons'.
Director: Anna Cox | Star: Lupita Nyong'o
Votes: 70
24. Sing, Freetown (2021)
94 min | Documentary
Two friends from one of the world's poorest countries go on a journey to the stage the most ambitious play in the nation's history. It doesn't go as planned.
Director: Clive Patterson | Stars: Sorious Samura, Charlie Haffner
Votes: 18
25. 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
26. Adanggaman (2000)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Stars: Rasmané Ouédraogo, Albertine N'Guessan, Ziable Honoré Goore Bi, Bintou Bakayoko
Votes: 202 | Gross: $0.03M
27. The Lost Number (2012)
90 min | Action
An international action drama, The lost Number is the story of a redemption-seeking English woman going against all odds to save a remote slum in Africa.
Director: Kester Nsirim | Stars: Sam Dede, Lisa Holsappel-Marrs, Sadiq Abu, Princess Edet
Votes: 29
28. Keïta! L'héritage du griot (1995)
94 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A storyteller named Djeliba comes to the town of a young boy named Mabo with promises that he will reveal the origin of the boy's ancestry.
Director: Dani Kouyaté | Stars: Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Sotigui Kouyaté
Votes: 176
29. Ghana, Land of the Gold Coast (1999 Video)
42 min | Short
"Ghana, Land of the Gold Coast" will take you to exciting places like one of the oldest European structures to be found in Western Africa, Elmina Castle, where Christopher Columbus slept ... See full summary »
Directors: Edwiges L. Woodard, Randy R. Woodard | Star: Don Mizell
30. The Water Will Carry Us Home (2018)
Animation, Short
Middle passage. Slave ship. Orishas. Mermaids. Through living ritual and stop motion animation, The Water Will Carry Us Home tells the story of stolen Africans who are thrown off a slave ... See full summary »
Director: Gabrielle Tesfaye | Star: Gabrielle Tesfaye
31. 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
32. Le taxi, le cinéma et moi (2023)
69 min | Documentary
In the first half of the 1990s, Drissa Touré was an auteur fast on the rise, with his first fiction feature, Laada (1991), celebrating its world premiere in a Cannes sidebar, from whence it... See full summary »
Director: Salam Zampaligré | Star: Drissa Toure
Votes: 5
34. Good Intentions (2023)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Evacuated volunteer and filmmaker Harry Dwinell sat down with former volunteers to discuss critiques of the Peace Corps that have existed for decades. This film attempts to dismantle the organization's curated "single story."
Director: Harry James Dwinell | Stars: Sokna Cisse, Liz Fanning, Phyllis Forbes, Jack Furness
Votes: 9
35. Samba le grand (1979)
14 min | Animation, Short
The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.
Director: Moustapha Alassane
Votes: 39
36. The Claw Monsters (1966 TV Movie)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed from one of the last Republic serials, "Panther Girl of the Congo". (1955).
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space, John Daheim
Votes: 14
37. L'excision - un thème pour tout le monde (2009)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Johanna Richter, Tassére Derra
38. Budapest to Bamako (2007– )
Unrated | 96 min | Documentary
This four part series follows 200 amateur rally drivers with a lust for adventure as they race from the heart of Europe to West Africa pushing the limits of overland travel to the maximum.
Star: Scott Alexander Young
Votes: 8
39. Kirikou (2001 Video Game)
Animation, Action, Adventure
3D platformer based on the animated film Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) about a young West African child hero Kirikou who must reach, outsmart and defeat the evil witch Karaba, who brought drought and famine to the land.
Director: Jean-Marie Nazaret
40. Equiano in Africa (2008)
11 min | Documentary, Short
An investigation into the kidnapping of Olaudah Equiano and the British slave trade.
Director: Jason Young
Votes: 25
41. The Change: History Through Guineans' Eyes (2010)
70 min | Documentary, History, News
What's happening in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire? Guinea has experienced these same events in 200, but its story has been hidden, ... See full summary »
Director: Chiara Cavallazzi | Stars: Moussa Dadis Camara, Kaba Saran Daraba, Rabiatou Diallo, Thierno Sow
43. The Whalers
105 min | Documentary | Announced
For centuries, whaling ships sailed the seas hunting for great cetaceans, crewed largely by free Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous men, despite the slave trade and blatant discrimination. This is their story.
Directors: PJ Marcellino, Jerri Thrasher
44. Sleepless Nights (I) (2022 Video)
1 min | Short
"Sleepless Nights" is a powerful and moving poem about the struggles of insomnia. The speaker believes that his insomnia is a gift from his ancestors, who are trying to help him understand the world around him.
Director: Muhammed Dibbasey | Star: Obafa Onema
45. Au centre de la Terre, des puits et des hommes (2008 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A man stands at the mouth of a well, donning a rudimentary rope harness. Camera in hand, he dives into the well and starts a 126 meters drop, at the end of which he reaches two men working ... See full summary »
Director: Ingrid Patetta
46. 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
47. Le sacré (1997)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Franck Schneider | Stars: Djibril Diop Mambéty, Sotigui Kouyaté, Mohamed Soudani
49. Nadro (1998)
100 min | Biography, Drama
Docu-drama about Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a.k.a. Cheik Nadro (or just Nadro), who after a divine vision in 1948, invented an alphabet for Bété, a West African language, to fight against the French colonization in his country.
Director: Ivana Massetti | Stars: Agnès B., Giordano Boetti, Mamadou Bomou, Genevieve Bouabre
Votes: 12
50. Vengeance (I) (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
John Meadham, has for years been in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Philip Strange, George C. Pearce
Votes: 46