1985

The Color Purple

7.753/1759

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...

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The Color Purple

1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

7.7/676

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a b...

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Cléo from 5 to 7

1985

Out of Africa

7.176/1352

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film...

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Out of Africa

2022

The Woman King

7.674/2027

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike...

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The Woman King

2006

The Last King of Scotland

7.4/2090

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 U...

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The Last King of Scotland

2006

Blood Diamond

7.545/7513

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

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Blood Diamond

1939

The Sun Never Sets

4.8/2

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompani...

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The Sun Never Sets

2005

Man to Man

6.2/35

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

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Man to Man

1988

Gorillas in the Mist

7/577

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

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Gorillas in the Mist

1984

Fort Saganne

6/58

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the...

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Fort Saganne

2007

Sounds of Sand

6.1/13

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The vi...

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Sounds of Sand

1992

Indochine

7/213

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam...

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Indochine

1993

Samba Traoré

5.6/7

Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase full of money. Despite his protests that this is mon...

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Samba Traoré

2007

Leroy

5.7/17

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots af...

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Leroy

1982

My Friend

0/0

Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.

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My Friend

1973

Papillon

7.8/1879

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca...

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Papillon

2003

Le porteur de cartable

0/0

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Le porteur de cartable

2005

Delwende

5.3/3

After a young boy dies of meningitis, Napoko Diarrha (Yaméogo) is accused of eating his soul because of a local sexist tradition. While this happens,...

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Delwende

2001

The Long Run

6.3/8

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging ru...

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The Long Run

1973

Mr. Kingstreet's War

6/2

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

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Mr. Kingstreet's War