Movies about Africa

Movies about Africa
List of the best movies about Africa, selected by visitors to our site: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Beasts of No Nation, Black Panther, The White Massai, Tourist, Agora, District 9, Small Country: An African Childhood, Machine Gun Preacher, The Legend of Tarzan.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:34

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

King T'Challa returns home from America to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantel to join with girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:11

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

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Genreaction
CountryRussia

Story of Russian military advisors in the Central African Republic

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountrySpain, Malta, Bulgaria
Duration02:06

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountrySouth Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration01:52

    Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United (MNU).

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Australia
    Duration02:19

    Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:38

    A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredocumentary
    CountryFrance, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy
    Duration01:38

    The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a community event for each species. Once in the Arctic, it's family time: courtship, nests, eggs, fledglings, and first flight. Chicks must soon fly south. Bad weather, hunters, and pollution take their toll. Then, the cameras go

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:35

    In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefamily, documentary
    CountryBelgium, USA
    Duration01:30

    A documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:08

    Kilian is a young man who has never left the mountains of Huesca which saw him grow up. In 1953 he will travel to the exotic island of Fernando Poo to work in a cacao field alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island he will undertake a journey towards maturity and knowledge, but will also have to deal with pain and loss.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:05

    The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
    Duration02:30

      The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:25

      This time our already familiar family moves to Africa in order to save endangered wildlife.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, military
      CountryFrance, Qatar
      Duration01:40

      A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda
      Duration01:28

      The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryGermany
      Duration02:21

      A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:23

      An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Australia, China, Hong Kong
      Duration01:28

        A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountrySouth Africa, USA
        Duration02:04

        When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration02:01

        Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:39

        In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, military
        CountryFrance, Belgium, Liberia
        Duration01:37

        A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, USA, France
        Duration02:04

        Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefamily, documentary
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
        Duration01:56

        An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:55

        Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:37

        Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:50

        Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, military, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa, Italy, USA
        Duration02:01

        Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredocumentary, short
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:47

        The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genreadventure, documentary
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:40

        Born to Be Wild observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day behavioural interactions with the individuals who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfurls in two separate geographic spheres. Half of it takes place in the rain forests of Borneo, where celebrated primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas assists baby orangutans; the other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Dame Daphne Sheldrick works with baby elephant calves.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryKenya, USA

        Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, drama, military, history
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration01:38

        February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrefamily, documentary
        CountryUSA, Botswana
        Duration01:28

        In Botswana's Okavango Delta, an ostracized lioness and her two cubs must fight alone to survive - overcoming all manner of hazards. Their only defense is to escape to Duba Island -- and with that, an unknown future. The setting for this epic tale is one of the last regions where lions can live in the wild. Faced with dwindling land and increasing pressure from hunting, lions - like our lone lioness and her cubs - are approaching the brink of extinction.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:35

        Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the embassy, have news on her whereabouts until a photo appears of Sara in a mining town. Apparently, Sara is being held captive by The Hawk, the fearsome rebel leader who controls the mafias behind the prized mineral coltan.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

          Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror
          CountrySouth Africa

          An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryItaly, France, Spain
          Duration01:59

          David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, Senegal, Belgium

          Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.

          Markimdb: 8.8
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:28

            Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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            Genreaction, adventure
            CountryRussia, Tunisia

            This story is not a figment of the scriptwriters’ imagination; these are real living facts. New Russian action movie Shugaley is a story about the war that is going on today. The film is based on real events taking place in Libya today. Two Russian social scientists, Maxim Shugaley and Samir Seifan, are invited to the conflict-torn country to carry out a public opinion research. In the course of their work, they come over the information, that would be damaging to the puppet government if made public. Russians are kidnapped and tortured in a private prison for more than a year. The situation cannot be resolved peacefully, so the Russian side is preparing a rescue operation. Premiere date - end of april 2020

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genreaction, drama
            CountryFrance, Cameroon

            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.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:29

            After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genremelodrama, drama, military
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:00

            Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.




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