Movies Set in Sudan

The incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel.

Directed by Gideon Raff - With Chris Evans

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The Four Feathers(2002)

PG-13

| 2h 12min | War, Drama, Romance / Love, Action, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 236 votes)

The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

Directed by Shekhar Kapur - With Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou, Kate Hudson, Alex Jennings, Kris Marshall, ...

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In a Better World(2010)

| 1h 58min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 180 votes)

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Directed by Susanne Bier - With Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Nielsen, Bodil Jørgensen, Camilla Gottlieb, ...

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The Constant Gardener(2005)

| 2h 9min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 755 votes)

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Directed by Fernando Meirelles - With Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard McCabe, ...

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The Good Lie(2014)

PG-13

| 1h 50min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 245 votes)

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

Directed by Philippe Falardeau - With Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Sarah Baker, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, Femi Oguns, ...

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Khartoum(1966)

2h 14min | History, War, Adventure

3.2/5 (with 56 votes)

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Directed by Basil Dearden - With Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Michael Hordern, ...

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Young Winston(1972)

| 2h 29min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, ...

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Live and Become(2005)

| 2h 20min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Directed by Radu Mihăileanu - With Sirak M. Sabahat, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Zinedine Zidane, Rami Danon, Shmil Ben Ari, ...

The Light That Failed(1939)

| 1h 37min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Ida Lupino, Dudley Digges, Ernest Cossart, Ferike Boros, ...

In Desert and Wilderness(1973)

3h 15min | Drama, Adventure

3.9/5 (with 24 votes)

Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe.

Directed by Władysław Ślesicki - With Monika Rosca, Tomasz Mędrzak, Edmund Fetting, Ahmed Hegazi, Abbas Fares

God Grew Tired of Us(2006)

1h 29min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Abul Pach and Panther Bior -- as they try to come to terms with the horrors they experienced in their homeland, while adjusting to their new lives in the United States.

Directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn - With John Bul Dau

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Shark(1969)

1h 32min | Action, Thriller

2.3/5 (with 7 votes)

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Silvia Pinal, Barry Sullivan

Goodbye Julia(2023)

2h | Drama

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.

Directed by Mohamed Kordofani

Attack on Darfur(2009)

1h 38min | War, Thriller, Drama, Action

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.

Directed by Uwe Boll - With Edward Furlong, Billy Zane, Kristanna Loken, Matt Frewer, David O'Hara, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, ...

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Storm Over the Nile(1955)

| 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.

Directed by Zoltan Korda, Terence Young - With Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Christopher Lee, Ferdy Mayne, ...

You Will Die at Twenty(2020)

1h 43min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.

Directed by Amjad Abu Alala - With Mustafa Shehata, Moatasem Rashed, Hassan Ali, Talal Afifi

The Last Outpost(1935)

1h 16min | Romance / Love, Adventure, War

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.

Directed by Charles Barton - With Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff, ...

Talking About Trees(2019)

1h 34min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

Directed by Suhaib Gasmelbari

The Four Feathers(1929)

1h 21min | Drama, Adventure

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.

Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, Ernest B. Schoedsack - With Fay Wray, Clive Brook, George Fawcett, Noah Beery, Sr., Noble Johnson, Richard Arlen, ...

In Desert and Wilderness(2001)

1h 51min | Adventure

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.

Directed by Gavin Hood - With Adam Fidusiewicz, Mzwandile Ngubeni, Lungile Shongwe, Artur Żmijewski, Lotfi Dziri, Krzysztof Kowalewski, ...

Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa(2003)

59min | Documentary

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

At the age of 97 Riefenstahl returns to Sudan for one final farewell to the Nuba that she lived with for 8 months and photographed and filmed extensively. Müller documents her return after 23 years away and her reaction to the collapsing culture that she once celebrated so avidly in her photographs.

Directed by Ray Müller - With Leni Riefenstahl

Tommy Atkins(1929)

| 1h 20min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

Directed by Norman Walker - With Lillian Hall-Davis, Henry Victor, Shayle Gardner

East of Sudan(1964)

1h 25min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Drama

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran - With Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter, Johnny Sekka

Beats of the Antonov(2014)

1h 5min | Documentary

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenge by war.

Directed by Hajooj Kuka

The Roundup(2018)

1h 18min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the armydodging Absi, over a fateful 24 hours in a rebel-held area of Sudan.

Directed by Hajooj Kuka

Khartoum Offside(2019)

1h 15min | Documentary

A group of exceptional young ladies in Khartoum are determined to play football professionally. They are prepared to defy the ban imposed by Sudan's Islamic Military government and they will not take no for an answer. Their battle to get officially recognized as Sudan's National Woman's team is fearless, courageous and often laughable. But their struggle is unwavering. Through the intimate portrait of these women over a number of years we follow their moments of hope and deception. Despite the National Football Federation getting FIFA funds earmarked for the women's teams, this team continues to be marginalized. However, there is a new spark of hope when the elections within the federation could mean real change of the entire system.

Directed by Marwa Zein

Song of Khartoum(1955)

18min | Documentary

Gubara was proud of the first color film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing disparate images of daily life in Khartoum and setting it to music, particularly romantic Arabic songs.

Directed by Gadalla Gubara

Geliebte Feindin(1955)

1h 40min | Drama

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Rolf Hansen

Al-Sit(2020)

20min

4.2/5 (with 1 vote)

An arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan. Does 15-year-old Nafisa have a choice?

Directed by Suzannah Mirghani

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Movies Set in Sudan

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The Last Mercenary(2021)

The Red Sea Diving Resort(2019)

The Four Feathers(2002)

In a Better World(2010)

The Constant Gardener(2005)

The Good Lie(2014)

Khartoum(1966)

Young Winston(1972)

Live and Become(2005)

The Light That Failed(1939)

In Desert and Wilderness(1973)

God Grew Tired of Us(2006)

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Shark(1969)

Goodbye Julia(2023)

Attack on Darfur(2009)

Storm Over the Nile(1955)

You Will Die at Twenty(2020)

The Last Outpost(1935)

Talking About Trees(2019)

The Four Feathers(1929)

In Desert and Wilderness(2001)

Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa(2003)

Tommy Atkins(1929)

East of Sudan(1964)

Beats of the Antonov(2014)

The Roundup(2018)

Khartoum Offside(2019)

Song of Khartoum(1955)

Geliebte Feindin(1955)

Al-Sit(2020)

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