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Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea to the northwest, Liberia to the west, Mali to the northwest, Burkina Faso to the northeast, Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean) to the south. With 30.9 million inhabitants in 2023, Ivory Coast is the third-most populous country in West Africa. Its official language is French, and indigenous languages are also widely used, including Bété, Baoulé, Dioula, Dan, Anyin, and Cebaara Senufo. In total, there are around 78 different languages spoken in Ivory Coast. The country has a religiously diverse population, including numerous followers of Islam, Christianity, and traditional faiths like Animism. Before its colonization, Ivory Coast was home to several states, including Gyaaman, the Kong Empire, and Baoulé. The area became a protectorate of France in 1843 and was consolidated as a French colony in 1893 amid the Scramble for Africa. It achieved independence in 1960, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who ruled the country until 1993. Relatively stable by re... ()
Languages used in Côte d'Ivoire: French | Bambara

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Night of the Kings(2021)

1h 33min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

Directed by Philippe Lacôte - With Isaka Sawadogo, Steve Tientcheu, Rasmane Ouedraogo, Laetitia Ky, Koné Bakary

Chimpanzee(2012)

G
| 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
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Black and White in Color(1976)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy, War
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - With Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Peter Berling, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll, ...

Black Tea(2024)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

Aya of Yop City(2013)

1h 24min | Animation, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.

Directed by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie

Adanggaman(2000)

1h 30min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother. Chasing after the soldiers in an effort to free her, Ossei is befriended by a fierce warrior named Naka.

Directed by Roger Gnoan Mbala

The Human Pyramid(1961)

1h 30min | Documentary, Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.

Directed by Jean Rouch

La femme porte l'Afrique(2009)

52min | Documentary

The scene is set in Southern Burkina Faso, and also in different parts of the Ivory Coast. Five women are shown with their daily burdens and one can easily guess how heavy the burdens are. All five represent the African woman collapsing under Africa’s weight. This film could also bear the title " The Cry": The distress cry of women who are legion, and whose cause the author, thanks to the magic of cinema, wants to defend, even with the most cold-hearted. When he decided to show five women’s every-day lives, Mr Idriss Diabete, who promised to tell the truth, nothing but the truth, had no idea of the danger threatening him. Is with women temptation always present ? He gave in to it and has eventually offered us beauty.

Everything Now(2016)

1h 54min | Thriller
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.

Directed by Richard Berry - With Richard Berry, Marc Ruchmann, Idit Cebula, Idrissa Diabaté, Djibril Gueye, Nilton Martins, ...

Run(2014)

1h 40min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Every time, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.

Directed by Philippe Lacôte

Bouka(1988)

1h 30min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Bouka is a gifted young teenager. He lives with his parents in a village and forms with them a solid family. His father gives him a traditional education close to nature. Unfortunately this happiness will be troubled by the brutal death of the father…Remained widow, the mother of Bouka will suffer the consequences of a relentless traditional principle. She become the new wife of the nephew of her late husband, Bouka doesn’t accepts this new condition of her mother. He suspects his stepfather to be involved in his father death. He stops to go to school and organize a gang in the forest. In this tormented atmosphere, he develops a mortal hate towards its new "father"….

Directed by Roger Gnoan Mbala - With Akissi Delta

Woubi Chéri(1998)

1h 2min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This documentary shows a few days in the life of various members of Abdijan, Ivory Coast's gay and transgendered community. We get to meet a variety of woubis, yossis, etc. The hero/heroine of the film is a statuesque young man named Barbara who is organising the annual year-end party of the Ivory Coast Tranvestite Association, to be held December 27, 1997.

Directed by Philip Brooks
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The Rue Princesse Street(1994)

1h 26min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Emile, his wife Fanta and their four children lead a comfortable existence. Jean, the eldest son, is interested only in music to his father's regret. One day Jean is sent away from home because of it...

Directed by Henri Duparc - With Akissi Delta

Ada in the Jungle(1988)

1h 30min | Action, Comedy
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Directed by Gérard Zingg - With Alain Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Charley Boorman, Cheik Doukouré, Isaach de Bankolé, Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko, ...

Ivory. A Crime Story(2016)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.

Directed by Sergey Yastrzhembsky

In the Name of Christ(1993)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid his local villagers of superstition and instead save them for Jesus.

Directed by Roger Gnoan Mbala - With Akissi Delta

Faces of Women(1985)

1h 45min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Desiré Ecaré - With Albertine N'Guessan, Sidiki Bakaba

African Metropolis(2014)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The vitality of the African city has provided local filmmakers with a rich array of stories for their films. African Metropolis presents six short films that examine the complexity of urban life in Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. They run the gamut of genres, but in all the central character is the city itself. A Jewish pensioner lives alone in a Johannesburg apartment, the last resident of an ever-changing city. In a Nairobi of the future, one man searches for the girl of his dreams. Dakar is the backdrop to an intimate conversation between two women. Abidjan once played host to the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In Cairo a musician sees the gap between rich and poor expand. And a final film confronts the perils of the poverty trap.

After the Crossing(2022)

1h 17min | Drama

Having made it to Italy, an Ivorian named Inza now plans to cross the mountains to France. Without stylisation, the film observes his everyday life: affairs with women, brushes with European asylum law and the impossibility of finding peace.

The Woman with the Knife(1969)

1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A young, unnamed Ivorian intellectual returns home after a lengthy spell in France. Failing to reconcile his new-found modernist views with his African traditions, and obsessed with his sexual inhibition, the man becomes haunted by the specter of a knife-brandishing woman threatening to shatter any potential relationships with other women.

Directed by Timité Bassori

Djeli, a Modern Tale(1981)

1h 30min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Kramoko Kouyate, son of a griot, cannot marry Fanta who is of noble blood. In flashback, the film explains the origin of the problem and shows their attempts to get around it.

Directed by Fadika Kramo-Lanciné

Ablakon(1985)

1h 30min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. The police are on their backs day and night. They are enterprising, energetic, and full of fresh vitality. Despite the fact they are rejected by their parents and ignored by the world, they form among themselves a powerful example of solidarity. Ablakon is something of a different order. He is an adult delinquent and a swindler. Posing as a businessman, he has deceived a countless number of people. When he and his accomplice return to the village, his extravagant behaviour is mistaken for a sign of success. Following his example many young people leave for the city. But they will soon understand their mistake...

Directed by Roger Gnoan Mbala

Le sixième doigt(1990)

1h 30min

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Directed by Henri Duparc - With Bamba Bakary, Jean Carmet, Christine Pascal, Catherine Lachens, Naky Sy Savané, Patrick Chesnais, ...

Burn it Up Djassa(2012)

1h 10min | Crime, Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A raw, noir-tinged urban legend set to the cadence of slam poetry and the beat of street dance, Burn It Up Djassa signals the arrival of an exciting new artistic movement from Africa's Ivory Coast.

Directed by Lonesome Solo
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Adja Tio : All because of the Inheritance(1980)

1h 40min | Drama

Film directed by Jean-Louis Koula.

Dancing in the Dust(1989)

1h 31min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The chief of an African village, who is called 'Demi Dieu' because after God he is the owner of all the things, already has five wives. But as this is not enough he decides to find himself a sixth wife so that he has one for every day of the week except on Sunday when he uses to relax.

Directed by Henri Duparc - With Bamba Bakary, Akissi Delta, Hanni Tchelley, Naky Sy Savané, Thérèse Taba, Djessan Ayateau, ...

Take Care France(1970)

59min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The emotional conflict of Africans in Paris.

Directed by Desiré Ecaré - With Pierre Garnier

Jusqu'au bout(2019)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

That night, when he accidentally meets Commissioner Djama, Patrice GBOKEDE plunges painfully into a past that he thought was buried forever. Carried by love and thirst for justice, he will face the Commissioner to reveal the truth that he kept secret 30 years earlier.

Directed by Hyacinthe Hounsou

Marabout Chéri(2023)

Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When a wealthy couple hit financial trouble, they hire a marabout (holy man) to perform rituals that will solve their problems. But the marabout creates more chaos than they ever expected.

Wariko, le gros lot(1994)

1h 40min
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In the Ivory Coast, Ali (Toure) is a poor policeman who struggles to make ends meet for his wife, Awa (Kabore) and three children. Ali is excited and giddy When he learns that the lottery ticket that Awa bought him is a 3,000,000 winner. But after an extended, frantic search he cannot find the ticket anywhere and he starts to neglect his work. As his family and neighbors learn of his good fortune, they start to come to him with their hands out, and Ali is seen as a mark by others who learn of his winnings. When Ali at last finds the ticket, he realizes that he cannot meet everyone's wishes, even with ten Jackpots.

Directed by Fadika Kramo-Lanciné
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