Croupier (1998), A Season in France (2017), Darwin's Nightmare (2004), Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008), Emmanuel's Gift (2005), God Grew Tired of Us (2006), The Ivory Game (2016), Enchanted Kingdom (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best African movies.
Storyline: In the late 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland is studying law in Britain in preparation for his eventual ascension to the throne. There, the dashing prince falls in love with a white British clerk, Ruth Williams, and they plan to marry. While they suspect that his uncle, the Regent, would disapprove, nothing prepares them for the diplomatic firestorm and domestic political tumult their defiant love would spark. Now facing a citizenry leery of a white Briton as their Queen, the international opposition is even more unyielding from the British holding their land as a protectorate and fearful of South Africa's racist backlash to this affront to their apartheid domination. Against all odds, King Khama and Ruth must struggle to maintain their love and help their people in a land that would become the Republic of Botswana.
Plot Keywords: prince, african, white woman, british woman, citizen, president, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother. Chasing after the soldiers in an effort to free her, Ossei is befriended by a fierce warrior named Naka.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: king, african, slave trader, young man, mother, soldier, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.—Carl Seiler <lcs9549@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Plot Keywords: sergeant, schoolteacher, priest, african, idealist, trader, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 14-year-old Ethiopian refugee finds shelter in a Swiss hospice.
Plot Keywords: young girl, refugee, african, bleak, dark, gripping, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper's family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through two thousand kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead, they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: poacher, african, american, murder victim, teenager, colonel, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
Plot Keywords: refugee, companion, squatter, villager, police officer, african, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle's trading partner. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck who became the first Governor of the Cape Colony. As such Krotoa ends up being rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch when she tries to find the middle way between the two cultures.—Roberta Durrant
Plot Keywords: native, dutch person, immigrant, interpreter, girl, african, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.—Guy33134
Plot Keywords: criminal, minister, impostor, homosexual, thief, african, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Plot Keywords: british woman, british man, small-time crook, minister, african, corrupt businessman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: african, hustler, immigrant, musician, pimp, prostitute, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The President of an African country decrees that the Arms budget will be diverted in to the "Water For All", project. The journalist, Michael Power, discovers a Coup set by the arms dealers.
Plot Keywords: journalist, african, government official, president, arms dealer, dictator, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A team of modern-day explorers embarks on a four-month expedition across three countries to explore the river system that feeds Botswana's Okavango Delta and to investigate why it is shrinking.
Plot Keywords: conservationist, speaker, biologist, scientist, animal, african, intense ...
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