Best award winning movies with memorable one-liners from Senegal

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with memorable one-liners from Senegal! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with memorable one-liners 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

rating icon 6.529
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    far superior
  2. Ranked #2 for
    choosy
  3. Ranked #3 for
    doozy

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2 The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)

A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.

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1999-02-01 | Drama

Cast

Aminata Fall, Moussa Baldé

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #117 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #227 for
    glistening
  3. Ranked #295 for
    petite actress

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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

rating icon 6.648
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    subverting expectations
  2. Ranked #201 for
    social realism
  3. Ranked #330 for
    elegiac

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4 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

rating icon 3.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #151 for
    scrawny
  2. Ranked #439 for
    soft voice
  3. Ranked #523 for
    conflicting view

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5 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

rating icon 7.03
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #201 for
    high-running emotions
  2. Ranked #211 for
    dry dialogue
  3. Ranked #362 for
    religious imagery

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6 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

rating icon 7.371
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #234 for
    minx
  2. Ranked #279 for
    sociopolitical
  3. Ranked #305 for
    unabashed

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7 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

rating icon 6.864
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2086 for
    didactic
  2. Ranked #2113 for
    freak show
  3. Ranked #2196 for
    cautionary tale

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8 Un amour d'enfant (2004)

Despite the difference in their upbringings and family lives, five young children become friends. Omar is in love with Yacine, a pretty, intelligent girl from a wealthy family. He decides to pen her a love letter, which ends up causing misunderstanding and a rift between him and his childhood love. Meanwhile, Demba falls in love with a beggar and they share 'secret' stares and tender touches in brief meetings each time. All the children seek advice from their mentor, who sells bicycle-rides at the beach-front. The innocence of childhood infatuation is cleverly layered over a troubled Senegal laboring under the strains of strike action and economic upheaval.

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2004-01-01 | Drama

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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10071 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #14547 for
    dreary due to excessive obviousness
  3. Ranked #16534 for
    realist

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9 The Walls of Dakar (2012)

This captivating documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of dissent and uncensored self-expression that gave prescient warning of the insurgency to come. (TIFF)

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2012-09-10 | Documentary

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Rating

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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #12839 for
    self-referential
  2. Ranked #13408 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  3. Ranked #18016 for
    broke the fourth wall

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10 Rocking Poponguine (1994)

A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.

Info

1994-01-01 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Coura Ba, Jean-François Balmer

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1903 for
    Multiple POV
  2. Ranked #2653 for
    fragmented narrative
  3. Ranked #3835 for
    ramshackle house

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