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Plot Summary:
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Potato Potahto (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple who decide to share equal space in their ex-matrimonial home soon realize that the ingenious idea is easier said than done. Bent on flexing their egos and scoring points, the two implore various hilarious tactics that soon inflames emotions and turns an already complicated situation into a roller coaster ride.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ghana
Duration: 115 min
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African Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several Africans face with being on time, the story also unveils how to combat the infamous African Time. Ironically, many Africans that are late to various social events are seldom late to work and other self-benefiting engagements. (Chijindu Kelechi Eke).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min
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Aida (1985)
Plot Summary:
La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger-than-life staging. The Triumph Scene in Act II is by no means Aida's only attraction, but it is the part that makes the strongest and most lasting impression and it is the visual and musical climax of this production. Stage director Luca Ronconi brings on a procession to dwarf all processions: looted treasures, heroic statuary, miserable captives struggling under the lash of whip-bearing slave drivers. On par with these visuals is Lorin Maazel's first-class performance of the popular Grand March with the outstanding La Scala chorus and orchestra. In Act III, the contrasting tranquility of the Nile Scene also gets a visual treatment to match the music's qualities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 160 min
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Hope Eternal (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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A Fountain for Susan (1999)
Plot Summary:
African Ibrahim Maiga is a renowned R&B artist, who lives in Europe. One day he receives a letter from his father, the chief of Ibrahim's tribe that he must marry Nene. She has been married off to him since their childhood. Ibrahim dislikes the idea and he asks his fan Zuzana to accompany him to Africa as his supposed wife, so the wedding can be cancelled. Things are getting difficult when the chief doesn't want to cancel the wedding and Zuzana falls in love with Michael, a journalist who is writing a report about Ibrahim's tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min
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Sanctuary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Larry and Sophie are in love. They bribe Tom to book them into a hotel for an afternoon's tryst and look forward to getting to know each other, like countless couples before them. But Larry and Sophie aren't any couple; they both have intellectual disabilities and Tom is their care worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Crazy About Paris (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
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Turtle (1994)
Plot Summary:
A story about friendship between a boy and his turtle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 90 min
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Where the Road Runs Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes over a dilapidated field station in the jungle of Equatorial Guinea. There he meets an orphan boy with a sunny disposition who opens George's wary eyes to this colorful place. The boy plays matchmaker between George and the lady who runs the local orphanage and all seems rosy until an old friend of George's shows up out of nowhere to throw their lives into disarray as George discovers there are many obstacles on the road to redemption and a few more where the road runs out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Africa, Netherlands, Equatorial Guinea
Duration: 91 min
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Finding Lenny (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Everything happens for a reason" - on his 50th birthday, Lenny Vincent is fired from his job as a sports writer for a daily newspaper, his wife of 19 years leaves him for a much younger man and he and his best friend Dave are caught in a gang heist at a restaurant. He ends up being hi-jacked by the gang and dumped in a rural village. Here he befriends the local chief and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime; helping to reunite the chief's warring sons, fighting a money grabbing property company from turning the chief's land into a golf course, coaching the village soccer team and ultimately.. finding himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
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Faces of Women (1985)
Plot Summary:
At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 105 min
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I Am Not a Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
Following a banal incident in her local village in Africa, 8-year old Shula is accused of witchcraft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Zambia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: art house, cult classic
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Children of the Mountain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Against the picturesque Ghanaian backdrop, Children of the Mountain is an honest exploration of a mother’s will in the face of much adversity. When her baby is born with a cleft lip, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome, Essuman is led to believe that she has a ‘dirty womb.’ Her promising future as a wife and mother is shattered as her lover disowns her and the community eyes her with suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 90 min
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Grandmother (1989)
Plot Summary:
A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, black cinema
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Mali Twist (2021)
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Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada, Senegal, Italy, Mali
Duration: 129 min
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Leroy (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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The African (1983)
Plot Summary:
Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) flies to East-Africa in order to build a touristic center near the Lake Williams where the pygmys live. Here she meets her husband Victor (Philippe Noiret), a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to built this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
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Wild Is the Wind (2022)
Plot Summary:
When two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 123 min
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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
Plot Summary:
Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never enough for his family, their needs increase more than the available earnings. For Pietro to sell weapons is becoming every day more stressful, every day more filthy. It has become normal for him to sell stuff to crazy corrupted bloodthirsty African dictators. He has also to fight competition with a French rival. His dirty activity explodes on national press; he becomes a monster for the public opinion. Pietro's family is hypocritically upset with him too! May be it was better the old bathroom equipment sector. Can he come back on his steps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
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L'afrance (2001)
Plot Summary:
El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: existential
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Madame Brouette (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-bric from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a cop, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival (at which women and men switch roles) arrives that her opportunity for escape emerges.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada, Senegal, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Country Queen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A Nairobi event planner returns to her village after 10 years, where she confronts her past — and a mining company that threatens to destroy her home.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Kenya
Duration: 60 min
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Mother and Son (2022)
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In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Marock (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Muslim girl and a Jewish boy fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, uplifting, touching, captivating, serious
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The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Nigeria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Leading Lady (2014)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's interaction with the quirky small town citizens and the stubborn Kobus, teaches her that: "there is more to life than lights... camera... and action!".
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 100 min
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Fifty (2015)
Plot Summary:
FIFTY captures a few pivotal days in the lives of four Nigeria women at the pinnacle of their careers. Meet Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos. They live and work in the resurgent, ever-bustling, 24-hour megacity of Lagos, the commercial capital of Africa's biggest and most vibrant economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Holiday in the Wild (2019)
Plot Summary:
When her husband abruptly ends their marriage, empty nester Kate embarks on a solo second honeymoon in Africa, finding purpose and potential romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sweet, light, sincere, touching, scenic, colorful, romantic, colourful
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Plot Summary:
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, contemplative, stylized, semi serious, art house, cult classic, experimental