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1. Heart of Stone (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable and dangerous weapon.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Jing Lusi
Votes: 59,434
2. The Visitor (I) (2007)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass
Votes: 44,543 | Gross: $9.42M
3. Five Times Two (2004)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 10,450 | Gross: $0.13M
4. The Endless Summer (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Sport
The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up finding quite a few in addition to some colorful local characters.
Director: Bruce Brown | Stars: Robert August, Michael Hynson, Lord James Blears, Bruce Brown
Votes: 6,229
5. Atlantics (2019)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou
Votes: 10,518
6. Clean Slate (1981)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Votes: 6,721
7. Banel & Adama (2023)
87 min | Drama
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Stars: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Moussa Sow
Votes: 413
8. Father & Soldier (2022)
98 min | Action, Drama, History
During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal.
Director: Mathieu Vadepied | Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet, Bamar Kane
Votes: 1,373
9. Black Girl (1966)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene
Votes: 6,034
10. Touki Bouki (1973)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture
Votes: 4,112
11. Adu (2020)
TV-MA | 119 min | Drama
Three people, three stories, one thing in common: Africa.
Director: Salvador Calvo | Stars: Luis Tosar, Álvaro Cervantes, Anna Castillo, Moustapha Oumarou
Votes: 5,458
12. Amin (2018)
91 min | Drama
NIne years ago, Amin came from Senegal to work in France, leaving his wife Aisha and their three children behind. In France, there is nothing but work for him, no friends but the people he lives with at his workers' home.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Moustapha Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Mareme N'Diaye, Noureddine Benallouche
Votes: 326
13. Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Thomas leaves Sodor to fulfil his dream of seeing the world. This heroic quest takes Thomas across deserts, through jungles and over dangerous mountains as he travels across five continents seeing sights he has never seen before.
Director: David Stoten | Stars: John Hasler, Joseph May, Yvonne Grundy, Peter Andre
Votes: 367
14. Lex Africana (2024– )
52 min | Thriller
A disgraced architect returning to Senegal for his father's funeral unwittingly uncovers a political conspiracy that thrusts him into a perilous fight against corruption.
Stars: Seydina Baldé, Eriq Ebouaney, Christiane Dumont, Serge Crozon-Cazin
15. Hyenas (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 1,344 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Death Drums Along the River (1963)
83 min | Adventure
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla
Votes: 421
17. Xala (1975)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne
Votes: 1,943
18. The Southern Star (1969)
M/PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, who's posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, everyone wants to steal it.
Directors: Sidney Hayers, Orson Welles | Stars: George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry
Votes: 610
19. Selam (2013)
104 min | Drama, Romance
This epic story is based on true events that has been in progress for more than 20 years in which a number of young people in love of peace and humanity leave their countries to teach, help... See full summary »
Director: Levent Demirkale | Stars: Burçin Abdullah, Selma Alispahic, Tin Cvitanovic, Muhamed Dupovac
Votes: 2,631
20. Koran by Heart (2011)
TV-G | 90 min | Documentary, News
A global contest reading of the Quran by young Muslim children that takes place in Cairo, Egypt annually during Ramadan. A coming of age story about Muslim kids in modern times.
Director: Greg Barker
Votes: 382
21. Dancing Pina (2022)
111 min | Documentary
Two spectacular dance projects show how a young generation of dancers from all over the world are rediscovering Pina's choreography: the Semperoper Ballet Company in Dresden rehearses ... See full summary »
Director: Florian Heinzen-Ziob | Stars: Malou Airaudo, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Gloria U. Biachi, Luciene Cabral
Votes: 128
22. Atlantiques (2009)
Not Rated | 16 min | Documentary, Short
Directed by Mati Diop (35 rhums), Atlantiques recounts the odyssey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing. Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Alpha Diop, Cheikh M'Baye, Ouli Seck, Serigne Seck
Votes: 692
23. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )
50 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels across Sahara desert region, the largest in the world.
Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 879
24. The Shape of Water (2006)
70 min | Documentary
THE SHAPE OF WATER (narrator: Susan Sarandon) Interweaves the intimate and powerful stories of Khady, Oraiza, Bilkusben, Dona Antonia, Gila - living in Senegal, Brazil, India, and Jerusalem... See full summary »
Director: Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Votes: 44
25. Passage du milieu (2000)
78 min | Drama, History
A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
Director: Guy Deslauriers | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Maka Kotto
Votes: 136
26. Karmen Gei (2001)
86 min | Musical, Romance, Drama
Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.
Director: Joseph Gaï Ramaka | Stars: Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle, Thierno Ndiaye Doss
Votes: 258
27. The Strangest Stranger (2017)
73 min | Documentary, Biography
A Jewish man in Tokyo named Joni Waka, who uses to call himself "Johnnie Walker", is the model of a character in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. Joni Waka also claims that he is... See full summary »
Director: Magnus Bärtås
28. Little Senegal (2000)
97 min | Drama
After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Karim Traoré
Votes: 439
29. Le radeau de la Méduse (1990)
130 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.
Director: Iradj Azimi | Stars: Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 233
30. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 465
31. City of Contrasts (1969)
22 min | Short
A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists, and especially the influence of France's culture and ... See full summary »
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Votes: 152
32. Círculos sobre agua, bajo nubes de algodón (2023)
24 min | Short, Drama
In a dystopian future, with a social context influenced by various pandemics and with a political upheaval triggering reactionary governments, various young people hide on the outskirts of ... See full summary »
Directors: Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu | Stars: Pelayo Carrizo, Senén Valera, Alejandro Barrena, Úrsula Villalta
Votes: 19
33. Binta y la gran idea (2004)
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Family, Short
Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place.
Director: Javier Fesser | Stars: Zeynabou Diallo, Agnile Sambou, Aminata Sane
Votes: 549
34. Nafi's Father (2019)
107 min | Drama
A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
Director: Mamadou Dia | Stars: Alassane Sy, Aicha Talla, Saikou Lo, Penda Daly Sy
Votes: 116
35. Le Franc (1994)
Not Rated | 46 min | Comedy
A broke and dopey musician, constantly harassed by his exasperated landlady, glues his lottery ticket to his door and when it turns out to be a winner must carry his door to the lottery office.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Dieye Ma, Aminata Fall, Demba Bâ
Votes: 323
36. Retour à Gorée (2007)
110 min | Documentary, Music
Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of new inspiration. Accompanied by the ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre-Yves Borgeaud | Stars: Youssou N'Dour, Moncef Genoud, Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, Idris Muhammad
Votes: 51
37. Badou Boy (1970)
56 min | Comedy
Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Lamine Ba, Al Demba Ciss, Christoph Colomb, Gaby Diallo
Votes: 201
38. Aligato (2003)
11 min | Short, Comedy
A couple has dinner at a restaurant. They speak French; he is from Senegal, she is Japanese. He produces a ring and asks her to marry him. She accepts. Delighted, they leave the restaurant.... See full summary »
Director: Maka Sidibe | Stars: Maka Sidibe, Raquel Jouanneau, Anatole Yun, Philippe Bénard
Votes: 37
39. TGV (1998)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated, driven, repaired and, if need be, pushed by the intrepid "Rambo". This time, ... See full summary »
Director: Moussa Touré | Stars: Makena Diop, Bernard Giraudeau, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Al Hamdou Traore
Votes: 192
40. The Call of Dance (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary film that travels across Senegal and showcases dance in all its forms. Through a wide range of stories and performances, it presents intimate portraits of individuals who share the reason why they dance.
Director: Diane Fardoun | Stars: Mère Absa, Germaine Acogny, Omar Badiane, Pierre-Claver Belleka
41. Laamb (2013)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
In modern times, Senegalese wrestling has developed into a national sport with packed stadiums and huge prizes. Today, the fight is supplemented with bare knuckle boxing but without any ... See full summary »
Directors: Kristoffer Hegnsvad, Peter Alsted | Stars: Jørgen Leth, Ndoff
Votes: 11
42. L'ami y'a bon (2004)
9 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Tells the tragic story of the Senegalese colonials who were drafted to help repel the German blitzkrieg invasion of France in World War II. "The Colonial Friend" is an animated film in ... See full summary »
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Votes: 67
43. Movement (R)evolution Africa (2007)
65 min | Documentary
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. ... See full summary »
Directors: Joan Frosch, Alla Kovgan | Stars: Beatrice Kombe, Nadia Beugre, Nora Chipaumire, Sello Pesa
44. En el mundo a cada rato (2004)
116 min | Documentary, Family
Five documentary shorts about various children from the third world.
Directors: Javier Corcuera, Patricia Ferreira, Javier Fesser, Chus Gutiérrez, Pere Joan Ventura | Star: Vicenta N'Dongo
Votes: 98
45. Walk All Night: A Drum Beat Journey (2016)
86 min | Documentary
An idealistic social worker initiates an ambitious project to take a group of street musicians to West Africa. Fascinated by the sounds of bucket drummers she meets on Chicago's south side,... See full summary »
Directors: Kate Benzschawel, Mallory Sohmer | Stars: Atoumane Gueye, Medoune Yacine Gueye, D'Quan Jackson, LaVern Jackson
46. Sopi Jefine Yi (2021)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Some families in Senegal decide to send their children to other regions and even to another country under the tutelage of a man called marabout (Koranic teacher). Once at their destination,... See full summary »
Directors: Irene García-Martínez, Mouhamadou Samb | Stars: Amadou Camara, Makode Diack, Adèle Diagne, Alassane Diallo
47. Gambia: Take Me to Learn My Roots (2019)
104 min | Documentary
This is a film about friends lost and friends found. A single mothers mission to teach her mixed-race sons about their West African roots. A story 30 years in the making, spanning 3 ... See full summary »
Director: Bacary Bax | Stars: Bacary Bax, Wes Eluda, Stan Hill, Luncher Jatta
48. Diol Kadd. Vita, diari e riprese in un villaggio del Senegal (2010)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Gianni Celati
49. A Star - Hypeman (2020 Video)
2 min | Short, Music
While traveling to Senegal, award-winning filmmaker Yoram Savion and ballet dancer Adji Cissoko decided to document the city of Dakar with local Senegalese street dancers.
Director: Yoram Savion | Stars: Pierre-Claver Belleka, Adji Cissoko, Cortex Tsengou Digna, Alioune Sow