Quando o governo democrático da Nigéria se desmorona e o País passa a ser governado por um cruel ditador militar, o Tenente A. K. Waters veterano da Marinha Americana, é enviado numa missão de rotina para resgatar a médica Dra. Lena Kendricks, que se propôs tratar das vítimas da guerra civil numa Missão Católica instalada numa pequena aldeia. Waters chega ao seu destino para levar consigo a médica, mas esta recusa-se a sair a não ser que ele ajude a transportar também os aldeões para um asilo político perto da fronteira. As ordens rígidas de Waters são claras: o Capitão Bill Rhodes ordenou que se mantivesse alheio ao conflito. Mas, à medida que ele e o seu esquadrão de elite testemunham a brutalidade dos rebeldes, rendem-se à causa da Dra. Kendricks. Waters confronta-se com um dilema: prosseguir com as ordens do seu superior, ignorando o conflito que os rodeia, ou arranjar coragem para seguir a sua consciência e proteger um grupo de refugiados inocentes.
In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a true story.
Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
From practicing barefoot on the streets of Lagos to performing on stage in England, twelve year old Anthony Madu leaves his home in Nigeria to study at one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the world. Anthony, who had barely left his neighborhood in Lagos, finds himself thrust into a new world where his wildest dream is suddenly within reach. His journey is a story of extraordinary obstacles, courage, growth, and ultimately, his search for belonging.
An adaptation of Yinka Egbokhare's novel. The story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various social and emotional challenges she's faced with.
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Quando as ambições políticas de uma poderosa empresária são ameaçadas pelas suas ligações ao submundo, a subsequente luta pelo poder poderá custar-lhe tudo.
Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In Yam, by Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly random money from the roadside. In Suffer the Witch, by Obasi, love and friendship turns into obsession, when a young college woman attracts her crush's interest.
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Para levar a cabo um golpe ousado, um vigarista carismático tenta roubar uma casa fortificada com a ajuda de uma equipa na qual não confia plenamente.
Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa. "Nollywood Babylon" is a feature documentary detailing the industry's phenomenal success. Propelled by a booming 1970s soundtrack of African underground music, the movie presents an electric vision of a modern African metropolis and a revealing look at the powerhouse that is Nigerian cinema.
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
Quatro dos mais ricos solteiros da Nigéria, desfrutam de uma vida de carros rápidos, casas sumptuosas e a atenção das mulheres, ocultando as suas verdadeiras atividades.
Survival and paranoia will be the forces that destroy a bond between two recruits when their camp's only source of water runs out.
2 Rats is a 2003 Nigerian comedy film directed by Andy Chukwu. Nollywood's highest-paid actors, Osita Iheme and Chinedu Ikedieze, play two young boys whose father has been murdered by their uncle. In a selfish move, Amaechi Muonagor wants them to work as house boys in their father's own house.
Serious health issues and cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriage test a young couple's relationship.
À medida que o seu grande dia se aproxima, os luxuosos planos de casamento de um casal transformam-se num pesadelo de ex-namorados, discussões e convidados indesejados.