Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)

Black Panther (2018)

Summary: T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Release Date: February 16, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Ryan Coogler

Writers: Ryan Coogler

, Joe Robert Cole

, Stan Lee

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Hotstar, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 700,426,566

International: $ 649,499,517

Faces of Death (1978)

Summary: A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.

Release Date: November 10, 1978

Genres: Documentary, Horror

Director: John Alan Schwartz

Writer: John Alan Schwartz

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: F.O.D. Productions

Distributor: Aquarius Releasing, Gorgon Video, MPI Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 450,000

The Lion King (2019)

Summary: After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.

Release Date: July 19, 2019

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation

Director: Jon Favreau

Writers: Jeff Nathanson

, Irene Mecchi

, Jonathan Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Fairview Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios

Distributor: Disney+, Hotstar, Star VijayTV, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Language: English

Franchise: Disney Live Action Reimaginings

Movie budget: $ 260,000,000

Domestic: $ 543,638,043

International: $ 1,118,382,776

Coming 2 America (2021)

Summary: The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.

Release Date: March 05, 2021

Genre: Comedy

Director: Craig Brewer

Writers: Eddie Murphy

, Barry W. Blaustein

, David Sheffield

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Eddie Murphy Productions, Misher Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Coming to America

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Abouna (2002)

Summary: Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.

Release Date: March 19, 2003

Genre: Drama

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Writer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Arte France Cinéma, Commission Européenne, Duo Films, Goi-Goi Productions, Hubert Bals Fund, Ministry of Promotion and Development, Tele-Chad

Distributor: Leisure Time Features

Countries: France, Chad, Netherlands

Language: Arabic

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Domestic: $ 3,290

International: $ 12,186

Congo (1995)

Summary: When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.

Release Date: June 09, 1995

Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery

Director: Frank Marshall

Writers: Michael Crichton

, John Patrick Shanley

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,022,101

International: $ 71,000,000

Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001)

Summary: Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.

Release Date: December 27, 2001

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Caroline Link

Writers: Caroline Link

, Stefanie Zweig

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: MTM Cineteve, Constantin Film, Bavaria Film, Media Cooperation One, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Bayerischer Banken-Fonds, BKM, kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes, Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,180,200

International: $ 18,141,980

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: November 28, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Justin Chadwick

Writers: William Nicholson

, Nelson Mandela

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Videovision Entertainment, Distant Horizon, Film Afrika Worldwide, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, Long Walk to Freedom, National Empowerment Fund, Origin Pictures, Pathe UK

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,323,085

International: $ 19,662,703

Beast (2022)

Summary: A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.

Release Date: August 19, 2022

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Horror

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Writers: Ryan Engle

, Jaime Primak Sullivan

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Dentsu, RVK Studios, Will Packer Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Countries: United States, Iceland, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 36,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,846,530

International: $ 27,249,279

Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

Summary: Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.

Release Date: November 02, 2011

Genres: Action, Crime, Biography

Director: Marc Forster

Writers: Jason Keller

, Ian Urbina

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Relativity Media, Virgin Produced, Apparatus Productions, Mpower Pictures, ITS Capital, Merlina Entertainment, MGP Productions, Moonlighting Films, Safady Entertainment

Distributor: Relativity Media, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 538,690

International: $ 2,800,000

A Dry White Season (1989)

Summary: A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a...

Release Date: September 20, 1989

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Euzhan Palcy

Writers: André P. Brink

, Colin Welland

, Euzhan Palcy

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Davros Films, Star Partners II Ltd., Sundance Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), CBS/Fox, Fox Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,766,879

Timbuktu (2014)

Summary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.

Release Date: December 10, 2014

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

Writers: Abderrahmane Sissako

, Kessen Tall

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Les Films du Worso, Dune Vision, Arches Films, Arte France Cinéma, Orange Studio, Canal+, Ciné+, Le Pacte, TV5MONDE, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Indéfilms 2, Doha Film Institute

Distributor: Le Pacte, Cohen Media Group

Countries: France, Mauritania, Qatar

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,076,075

International: $ 6,103,316

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Summary: A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Release Date: May 18, 1961

Genre: Drama

Director: Daniel Petrie

Writer: Lorraine Hansberry

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: CBS, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Only the Animals (2019)

Summary: A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.

Release Date: October 15, 2021

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Dominik Moll

Writers: Colin Niel

, Dominik Moll

, Gilles Marchand

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

Production: Haut et Court, Razor Film Produktion GmbH, France 3 Cinéma, France Télévisions, Région Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, The Match Factory, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Distributor: Cohen Media Group, The Match Factory

Countries: France, Germany

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,138

International: $ 894,659

Endangered Species (2021)

Summary: Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate.

Release Date: May 28, 2021

Genres: Action, Thriller

Director: M.J. Bassett

Writers: M.J. Bassett

, Isabel Bassett

, Paul Chronnell

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Grindstone Entertainment Group, Hassell Free Productions, The Electric Shadow Company, Blue Sky Films

Distributor: Lionsgate Films

Countries: Kenya, United States

Language: English

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Summary: Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Release Date: June 24, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Roland Emmerich

Writers: Nicolas Wright

, James A. Woods

, Dean Devlin

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment, Street Entertainment, Twisted Media

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Hotstar, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Independence Day

Movie budget: $ 165,000,000

Domestic: $ 103,144,286

International: $ 286,537,649

Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

Summary: A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.

Release Date: December 15, 1995

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Darrell Roodt

Writers: Ronald Harwood

, Alan Paton

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Alpine Pty Limited, Distant Horizon, Miramax, Videovision Entertainment

Countries: South Africa, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 670,727

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Summary: The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Release Date: February 01, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Julian Schnabel

Writers: Ronald Harwood

, Jean-Dominique Bauby

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Pathé, Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Banque Populaire Images 7

Distributor: Miramax, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Domestic: $ 6,003,227

International: $ 13,776,889