African Story

Murder Mystery 2

March 2023 •English

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.

KKN: Curse of the Dancing Village

April 2022 •Indonesian

Six students were terrorized by a mysterious dancer while running a community service program in a remote village. Apparently, one of them violates the most fatal rule in the village.

Séo!

January 1987 •French

The film shows Catherine Destivelle's trip to Dogon Country, in Mali, where she will make spectacular free solo rock climbing ascents in the sun-warmed cliffs of Bandiagara. Destivelle is accompanied on this trip by a friend climber, Lucien Abbet. A film by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz produced in 1987 by Paradoxe and also featuring Tidjani Koné, Ibrahim Dolo, and the Dogon inhabitants of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The film won the Genziana D'argento for best free climbing film at the Trento Film Festival in 1987.

Arsenal

January 2017 •English

After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.

Against the Wild II: Survive the Serengeti

February 2016 •English

Two kids and their dog must use all their skills to survive in the African bush after a plane crash.

Tordyveln flyger i skymningen

August 2025 •Swedish

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion

August 1965 •English

When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market...

Temple of a Thousand Lights

January 1965 •Italian

The Rajah of Punjab wants to come into possession of a famous gem known as "Mountain of Light". He asks adventurer Allan Foster to steal it for him, but Foster has other plans.

The Bod Squad

June 1974 •Chinese

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom.

The Fantastic Magic Baby

August 1975 •Chinese

In The Fantastic Magic Baby, director Chang Cheh weaves a wild and woolly yarn about how the legendary Monkey King and Goddess of Mercy battle and defeat the child god Hung Hai-erh then point him down the road to righteousness.

No One Gets Out Alive

September 2021 •English

An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.

Tartarin of Tarascon

November 1934 •French

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip.

Figures in a Landscape

November 1970 •English

Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

The Kidnapping of the President

August 1980 •English

A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.

Unlocked

February 2023 •Korean

A woman's life is turned upside-down when a dangerous man gets a hold of her lost cell phone and uses it to track her every move.

The Three Undelivered Letters

October 1979 •Japanese

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

March 1949 •English

George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.

The Barbarian

May 1933 •English

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

The Black Panther

December 1977 •English

A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.

Evening Primrose

November 1966 •English

A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader’s young maid.