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1. Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13 | 202 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Votes: 102,098 | Gross: $48.17M
2. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles
Votes: 69,628 | Gross: $10.25M
3. Spider (2002)
R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave
Votes: 41,138 | Gross: $1.64M
4. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto, Robert Hobbs
Votes: 29,199 | Gross: $8.32M
5. Chocolat (1988)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin
Votes: 4,483 | Gross: $2.32M
6. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden
Votes: 13,228 | Gross: $2.32M
7. Liberty Heights (1999)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Ben Foster
Votes: 7,047 | Gross: $3.73M
8. A United Kingdom (2016)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Director: Amma Asante | Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport
Votes: 16,989 | Gross: $3.90M
9. The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
R | 106 min | Drama
Nic's life in glimpses at ages 5, 12, 16 and later film director and husband/dad.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Julian Sands, Saffron Burrows, Stefano Dionisi, Kelly Macdonald
Votes: 3,388 | Gross: $0.40M
10. The Josephine Baker Story (1991 TV Movie)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 1,591
11. Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Approved | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so and Tarzan pursues them to their mine.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane, Niall MacGinnis
Votes: 1,438 | Gross: $2.18M
12. Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure
Ivory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie, Raymond Burr, Monique van Vooren
Votes: 584
13. The First Grader (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua
Votes: 4,894 | Gross: $0.33M
14. Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure
When Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritance.
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Marion Michael, Hardy Krüger, Irene Galter, Peter Mosbacher
Votes: 459
15. Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams (2015 Music Video)
G | 4 min | Short, Drama, Music
On location in the wilderness, a volatile young actress falls in love with her leading man in Taylor Swift's music video for her song Wildest Dreams.
Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Taylor Swift, Lauriane Gilliéron, Peter Holt, Corey Allen Kotler
Votes: 1,276
16. Beyond Mombasa (1956)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell
Votes: 413
17. Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan fights White poachers who trespass on his domain and on lands belonging to the native Sukulu tribe.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter van Eyck, Jack Elam
Votes: 601
18. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed?
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Autumn Russell, Joel Ashley
Votes: 1,216
19. Something of Value (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, War
In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 1,308
20. Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991)
R | 91 min | Horror
In 1950s Africa, a tribal magician calls up a demon to kill Europeans.
Director: Sean Barton | Stars: Christopher Lee, Jenilee Harrison, Henry Cele, Andre Jacobs
Votes: 640
21. Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure
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. Captured by the Oparians and nearly sacrificed to their lion god, the party is saved by Tarzan.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John
Votes: 660 | Gross: $1.99M
22. Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influential fashion figures as 'the best shoe-maker of the 20th and 21st centuries. A film for ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Roberts | Stars: Manolo Blahnik, David Bailey, Mary Beard, Lucy Burley
Votes: 573 | Gross: $0.06M
23. Simba (1955)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden
Votes: 469
24. The African Lion (1955)
G | 75 min | Family, Documentary
Experience the thrill of the hunt and the heartwarming fun of a mother lion caring for her playful cubs as wildlife experts Elma Milotte and Alfred Milotte spend three years on the plains of Africa studying the king of beasts.
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 590
25. Jungle Moon Men (1955)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim type is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Director: Charles S. Gould | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Byron, Helene Stanton, William Henry
Votes: 327
26. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,375
27. Adventures of Captain Africa: Mighty Jungle Avenger! (1955)
Approved | 225 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: John Hart, Rick Vallin, Ben Welden, June Howard
Votes: 77
28. Equator (1983)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Novel-based crime drama about naive Timar, who goes to Gabon, French Equatorial Africa in the 1950s with dreams of making fortune. He's seduced by Adele, a shady owner of a local hotel, Libreville, who uses him to commit murder.
Director: Serge Gainsbourg | Stars: Francis Huster, Barbara Sukowa, Reinhard Kolldehoff, François Dyrek
Votes: 138
29. Blind Justice (1988)
110 min | Drama, War
When an African country declares its independence, the results vary from thrilling to catastrophic, depending on what side of revolution one fought with.
Director: Terence Ryan | Stars: Christopher Cazenove, Edita Brychta, Patrick Shai, Oliver Reed
Votes: 298
30. Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier (1956)
85 min | Adventure, Drama
In Kenya, a white trader of exotic animals is mentoring and caring for an African boy but is annoyed by his new female replacement veterinarian and must deal with a disgruntled former employee.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Macdonald Carey, Juma, Eleanor Summerfield
Votes: 165
31. Fury of the Congo (1951)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 306
32. Satchmo the Great (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. ... See full summary »
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Leonard Bernstein, W.C. Handy
Votes: 23
33. Albert Schweitzer (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his ... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Hill | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Helene Schweitzer
Votes: 144
34. Savage World (1954)
Approved | 64 min | Documentary, History
This is a film in two parts. The first part deals with the efforts of African officials (read: British)to conserve the jungle wild life. Tribes make their living by capturing animals for ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Bishop
35. Africa, I Will Fleece You (1992)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History
A documentary examining political repression in Cameroon, Central Africa.
Director: Jean-Marie Téno | Stars: Jean-Marie Téno, Narcisse Kouokam, Marie Claire Dati, Essindi Mindja
Votes: 110
36. Masters of the Congo Jungle (1958)
Approved | 88 min | Documentary
Documentary showing the struggles of the inhabitants--both human and animal--of what was then called the Belgian Congo.
Directors: Henry Brandt, Heinz Sielmann | Stars: Jean Desailly, Georges Aminel, Kazuo Aoki, Bert Brauns
Votes: 65
37. Tembo (1952)
Passed | 80 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure
This is an expedition/travelogue, disguised as a documentary with a plot. The 'plot' is that this Howard Hill expedition has come to Africa in search of a legendary tribe of "Leopard Men' (... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hill | Stars: Howard Hill, Westbrook Van Voorhis
Votes: 24
38. The Claw Monsters (1966 TV Movie)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed from one of the last Republic serials, "Panther Girl of the Congo". (1955).
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space, John Daheim
Votes: 14
39. Krev zmizelého (2005)
126 min | Drama, War
An intimate ballad following the lives of a mother and daughter who go through topsy-turvy historical times. The plot is divided into four seasons set between 1939 and 1961. A Czech woman ... See full summary »
Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Václav Jirácek, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vilma Cibulková, Anna Cónová
Votes: 103
40. Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla (1958)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Assi Nortia
Votes: 359
41. Wakamba! (1952)
Approved | 65 min | Documentary
A hunter of the Wakamba tribe in central-east Africa desires a bride and goes to a tribal elder to obtain the hand of his daughter. The father demands elephant tusks as payment. On his ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar M. Queeny | Star: Ed Prentiss
42. Zanzabuku (1956)
Approved | 64 min | Documentary, Adventure
Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.
Director: Lewis Cotlow | Stars: Lewis Cotlow, Michael Carr Hartley, Carr Hartley, Ronald Davidson
Votes: 12
43. Sick, Sick Sidney (1958)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
This Cinemascope cartoon features a baby elephant, Sidney, who scoffs and laughs at his jungle friends who want to be captured and lead a life of ease in a big-city zoo. But, after several ... See full summary »
Directors: Art Bartsch, Gene Deitch | Star: Lionel Wilson
Votes: 23
44.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
Life Lessons from My Attempt at Carpentry
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Star: Owen Benjamin