Films Shot in Uganda

28 movies found (page 1/1):

Black Panther(2018)

2h 14min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

3.7/5 (with 10,306 votes)

King T'Challa returns home 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 mantle to join with ex-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.

Directed by Ryan Coogler - With Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Andy Serkis, ...

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Congo(1995)

1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 381 votes)

Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.

Directed by Frank Marshall - With Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, ...

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls(1995)

| 1h 30min | Crime, Comedy, Adventure

3.2/5 (with 1,798 votes)

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

Directed by Steve Oedekerk - With Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo, ...

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The African Queen(1952)

1h 45min | Adventure, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 392 votes)

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, ...

The Last King of Scotland(2006)

2h 3min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 902 votes)

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.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald - With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo, ...

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Instinct(1999)

2h 6min | Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 265 votes)

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub - With Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, John Ashton, ...

Queen of Katwe(2016)

2h 4min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 188 votes)

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

Directed by Mira Nair - With Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga, Ntare Mwine, Maurice Kirya, Charity Rose Pimer, ...

Mogambo(1953)

1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

Directed by John Ford - With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea, ...

Chimpanzee(2012)

1h 18min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.

Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield - With Tim Allen

King Solomon's Mines(1950)

1h 43min | Adventure

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

Directed by Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton - With Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, John Banner, Lowell Gilmore, ...

Who Killed Captain Alex?(2015)

1h 4min | Action, Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain is killed.

Directed by Isaac Nabwana

Mississippi Masala(1991)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca, ...

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The African Lion(1955)

1h 15min | Documentary, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Part of Disney's True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.

Directed by James Algar

Bigger Than Us(2021)

1h 35min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to fix the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, sometimes risking their lives and safety, they protect, denounce and care for others. The earth. And they change everything. Melati goes to meet them across the globe. At a time when everything seems to be or has been falling apart, these young people show us how to live. And what it means to be in the world today.

Directed by Flore Vasseur

The Silent Army(2008)

1h 55min | Drama, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Eduard Zuiderwijk (Marco Borsato) runs a restaurant in Africa. When his wife (Ricky Koole) suddenly dies, he is left to take care of his son Thomas (Siebe Schoneveld) on his own. When his son's best friend Abu (Andrew Kintu) is abducted by a rebel leader to be trained as a child soldier, Eduard goes in pursuit to save the boy and regain his son's respect.

Directed by Jean van de Velde - With Marco Borsato, Thekla Reuten, Ricky Koole, Peter Van Den Begin, Adrian Galley, Jacqueline Blom, ...

The Girl in the Yellow Jumper(2020)

1h 21min | Crime, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

As word spreads that there is a serial killer at large who continues to commit murder, an off-duty police officer must return an elderly witness who lives in a remote part of Uganda back to town. Along the way, the policeman gives a ride to an injured man. On the way to the city, the passenger tells the policeman the events that led him to end up injured in the middle of the road. But as we travel with these mysterious characters in the car, director Loukman Ali shows us that the stories they tell are only fragmentary and partial versions of the events that took place, and that perhaps there are truths buried beneath each of their words.

Directed by Loukman Ali - With Rehema Nanfuka, Michael Wawuyo Jr., Michael Wawuyo, Maurice Kirya, Oyenbot

Trader Horn(1931)

2h 2min | Action, Adventure

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke - With Duncan Renaldo, Edwina Booth, Harry Carey, Olive Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Marjorie Rambeau, ...

The Lion(1962)

1h 36min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.

Directed by Jack Cardiff - With William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Helfer

Tarzan and the Lost Safari(1957)

1h 26min | Adventure

2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.

Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone - With Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, George Coulouris, ...

Escape from Uganda(2013)

1h 54min | Thriller

2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Shikha Samuel (Rima Killingal) and Jayakrishnan (Vijay Babu) have eloped and made Uganda their home with the help of Advocate Firoz (Mukesh), who is practising law there. The couple is leading a happy life with a girl child of their own. Jayakrishnan is employed as a manager in a coffee shop and Shikha runs a designer boutique of her own. The tranquillity of their life is shattered when Shikha is arrested on the charges of committing two murders, one of the victim is the daughter of the local Mayor, who has pledged to keep her in jail for the rest of her life.

Directed by Rajesh Nair - With Rima Kallingal

Bad Black(2016)

1h 12min | Action, Comedy, Crime

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.

Directed by Isaac Nabwana

Africa Speaks!(1930)

1h 15min | Documentary, Adventure, History

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.

Directed by Walter Futter

TikTok(2015)

19min

Disorganized Sam wakes up almost late on the first day of his new job and must fulfill his new job guidelines in the shortest time possible.

Directed by Usama Mukwaya - With Patriq Nkakalukanyi

Bala Bala Sese(2015)

1h 42min

A story of boyfriend's battle for love through perseverance. In the outskirts of Sese Island, John is madly in love with Maggie and both are willing to take their love forward. Facing abuses and harassment by malicious Maggie's father Kasirivu, John, helped by his young brother Alex is determined to take in all but to retain the love of his life especially when he finds out that he has a contender village tycoon who is also lining up for Maggie.

Directed by Lukyamuzi Bashir

The Blind Date(2021)

29min | Action

Jeff has a crush on a girl that's way outside his social class but he won't let that stop him. He'll do whatever it takes, including breaking a few rules.

Directed by Loukman Ali - With Martha Kay, Michael Wawuyo Jr., Raymond Rushabiro, Patriq Nkakalukanyi, Allen Masumba

Stain(2021)

1h 15min

Mina, a 29 year old mother of one, who takes over as bread winner in the home when her husband Bomboka is maimed after a domestic wrangle.

Sixteen Rounds(2021)

30min | Horror

A war verteran concocts a plan to exact revenge on his cheating wife.

Directed by Loukman Ali

Love Faces(2016)

2h 4min

A young vibrant couple battling inferiority and superiority complex witness an extraordinary scenario that changes their lives forever.

Directed by Usama Mukwaya - With Laura Kahunde, Moses Kiboneka, Patriq Nkakalukanyi, Salome Elizabeth, Vince Drey, Raymond Rushabiro, ...