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Black Emanuelle(1975)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure
2.3/5 (with 29 votes)

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity come to a head as she observes the troubled marriage of her hosts, Ann and Gianni Danieli. Matters are complicated further when Emanuelle finds herself in affairs with both of them, after which she flees Africa, only to be persued by Gianni, who had earlier rejected her and ridiculed her advances.

Directed by Bitto Albertini - With Laura Gemser, Angelo Infanti, Karin Schubert, Gabriele Tinti, Venantino Venantini

Perfect Sense(2011)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama, Science Fiction, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 496 votes)

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

Directed by David Mackenzie - With Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Connie Nielsen, Alastair Mackenzie, ...
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Sheena(1984)

PG
| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 59 votes)

Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.

Directed by John Guillermin - With Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Trevor Thomas, Elizabeth Nyabongo, Donovan Scott, Clifton Jones, ...
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Out of Africa(1985)

PG
| 2h 41min | History, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 589 votes)

Out of Africa tells the story of the life 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 is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton, Michael Kitchen, ...
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Quest for Fire(1981)

1h 40min | Adventure, Drama
3.5/5 (with 208 votes)

A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe's search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - With Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Robert Lavoie, ...

Gorillas in the Mist(1988)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 244 votes)

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

Directed by Michael Apted - With Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Glen, Constantin Alexandrov, Iain Cuthbertson, ...
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Paradise: Love(2012)

2h | Drama
3.4/5 (with 77 votes)

On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.

Directed by Ulrich Seidl - With Margarethe Tiesel, Maria Hofstätter, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz

I Dreamed of Africa(2000)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Romance / Love, Drama, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 32 votes)

Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.

Directed by Hugh Hudson - With Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Eva Marie Saint, Daniel Craig, Valeria Cavalli, ...
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Born Free(1966)

1h 35min | Adventure
3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.

Directed by James Hill - With Virginia Anne McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
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Ashanti(1979)

1h 58min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, ...

Mogambo(1953)

NR
| 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, ...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro(1952)

NR
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 40 votes)

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Directed by Henry King - With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, Marcel Dalio, ...
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Cry Freedom(1987)

PG
| 2h 37min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 83 votes)

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Kevin McNally, John Thaw, Ian Richardson, ...
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In a Better World(2010)

R
| 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 White Masai(2005)

2h 11min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.

Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth - With Nina Hoss, Jacky Ido, Nino Prester, Katja Flint

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, ...
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White Mischief(1988)

R
| 1h 47min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.

Directed by Michael Radford - With Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, John Hurt, Alan Dobie, ...

The Air Up There(1994)

PG
| 1h 47min | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 72 votes)

Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser - With Kevin Bacon, Yolanda Vazquez, Sean McCann, Winston Ntshona
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The First Grader(2010)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Directed by Justin Chadwick - With Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge

Cheetah(1989)

G
| 1h 23min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.

Directed by Jeff Blyth - With Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins, Collin Mothupi
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The Missionary(1982)

R
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.

Directed by Richard Loncraine - With Charles McKeown, David Leland, David Suchet, Denholm Elliott, Derrick O'Connor, Frances Barber, ...

The Wilby Conspiracy(1975)

PG
| 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination.

Directed by Ralph Nelson - With Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Nicol Williamson, Jürgen Thormann, Michael Chevalier, Rutger Hauer, ...
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Up the Sandbox(1972)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

Directed by Irvin Kershner - With Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jacobo Morales, Carl Gottlieb, Paul Dooley, Anne Ramsey, ...

Simba(1955)

1h 39min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.

Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst - With Dirk Bogarde, Virginia Anne McKenna, Donald Sinden, Basil Sydney, Earl Cameron

The Last Safari(1967)

NR
| 1h 50min | Adventure
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A hunter stalks a killer elephant.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With John Sutton, Johnny Sekka, Liam Redmond, Stewart Granger

Safari(1956)

NR
| 1h 30min | Adventure
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.

Directed by Terence Young - With Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Liam Redmond, ...

Oh My God(2009)

PG
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Documentary
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

"Oh My God" asks people from all walks of life, from celebrities, to the religious, to atheists and the common Man - the question - "What is God?".

Directed by Peter Rodger - With Peter Rodger, Ringo Starr, Hugh Jackman, David Copperfield, Seal

Beyond Mombasa(1956)

NR
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Directed by George Marshall - With Cornel Wilde, Christopher Lee, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell

Where No Vultures Fly(1951)

1h 47min | Adventure
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them.

Directed by Harry Watt - With Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan

Trader Horn(1931)

NR
| 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, ...
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