Best award winning movies with a fresh perspective from Senegal
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a fresh perspective from Senegal! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a fresh perspective from Senegal, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Saloum (2021)
Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
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- 2021-03-21 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen
Rating
6.529
2 Night of the Kings (2021)
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
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- 2021-02-26 | Drama
Cast
- Koné Bakary, Steve Tientcheu
Rating
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6.739
3 Touki Bouki (1973)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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- 1973-07-01 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang
Rating
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6.648
4 Black Girl (1966)
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
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- 1966-03-17 | Drama
Cast
- Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek
Rating
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7.371
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5 Tall as the Baobab Tree (2012)
In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage.
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- 2012-08-25 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Alpha Dia, Cheikh Dia
Rating
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3.4
6 Hyenas (1992)
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
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- 1992-09-18 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mansour Diouf
Rating
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7.03
7 Mali Twist (2022)
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
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- 2022-01-05 | Drama
Cast
- Stéphane Bak, Alicia Da Luz Gomes
Rating
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6.375
8 Xala (1975)
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
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- 1975-10-01 | Comedy
Cast
- Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang
Rating
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6.864
9 The Price of Forgiveness (2001)
Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.
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- 2001-09-12 | Drama
Cast
- Hubert Koundé, Gora Seck
Rating
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5.0
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10 Mandabi (1968)
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
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- 1968-11-27 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye
Rating
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7.0
