Africa Movies

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and...

A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.

Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He...

When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead...

Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he...

Souleymane, 25, dreams of being a dancer in spite of having a paralyzed leg. At nightclubs, he transforms into the beloved dancer Grigris, impressing...

Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life...

The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be...

Tough Enough, is a 400 meter climbing route in the Tsaranoro Valley in Madagascar. This film shows the first climb by Arnaud Petit, Stéphanie...

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to...

The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military...

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has...

A marauding band of black terrorists hold the inhabitants of a tiny desert settlement hostage. They murder most of the settlers, but spare a...

A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage.