Yoruba wird u.a. in Nigeria, Benin und Togo gesprochen und 7 Filme (zwischen 1976 und 2022) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Nigeria (7) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Yoruba Filme sind Komödie (2), Drama (2) und Musik (1). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Ajani Ogun (1976), Fate of Alakada (2020), Ti Oluwa Ni Ilẹ́ (1993), Besida (2018) und Ayinla (2022).
Abeni is in love with Akanni, the son of Chief Bello's former gateman. But Chief Bello is not in support of his daughter's intention to marry a pauper's son. Will Chief Bello succeed in breaking the bond between the lovebirds?
A Nigerian melodrama where a clique of land speculators enlists the help of a traditional chief to sell ancestral land fraudulently to a business man who plans to build a petrol station.
Yetunde is now a social media influencer still living the fake life and pretending to be a Lagos success. After sneaking into a movie premiere event with her trusted friend and fellow ‘fakester', Kas, she pretends to be an event planner after hearing how much money can be made from the profession. Yetunde must now fake her way through bringing Celebrity guests she pretends to know and throwing the best party for Swanky Jerry & his babe Stephanie, that Lagos has ever seen. The movie aims to poke fun at social media fakeness and the current Nigerian pop culture.
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful range of hills and valleys in the southwestern Nigerian countryside, AYINLA is inspired by the life and times of Ayinla Omowura, a popular Yoruba musician in rural Nigeria.
Ajoke, a local prophetess, makes a bogus prediction about a football match which sets off a chain of events beyond her control...