Movies and TV shows set in angola
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in angola ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, independent film and political films and TV shows about / with death, husband wife relationship, soldier, family relations, danger, survival, terrorism, civil war, betrayal and military plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, South Africa, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as angola: Sweepers (1998), Another Day of Life (2018), The Legend of Rita (2000), High Explosive (2001), April Captains (2000), Skeleton Coast (1988), Blood Diamond (2006), Catch a Fire (2006), Hollow City (2004), Farewell Amor (2020).
List of movies set in angola
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the ...
Style:
cliffhanger, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, tough heroes, one man army, die hard, rescue, escapades, race against time, danger, vengeance, undercover, chases and races, espionage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
angola
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Genre: Animation, Biography
Country: Spain, Poland, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness ...
Style:
adult animation, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
life risking, conflict, civil war, investigation, independence movement, african, war, frontline, wartime, military life, road trip, travel ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, year 1975
Place:
angola, africa, portugal, cuba, poland ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
lesbian, politics, terrorism, berlin wall, runaway, raf, loneliness, existentialism, starting over, danger, state affairs, lesbian sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Action
Country: South Africa, UK, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Medical and de-mining personnel for the United Nations must escape from war-torn Angola before revolutionaries kill them.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot:
escape, civil war, un, evacuation, father son relationship, military, survival, danger, political conflict, physician, border crossing, family bonds ...
Place:
angola, africa, namibia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Portugal, Spain, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
dictatorship, coup d'etat, military coup, dictator, military, rebellion, state affairs, politics, family relations, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
portugal, angola, africa, europe
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Genre: Action, History, War
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, man on a mission, covert operation, hostage, soldier, kidnapping, violent content, tough heroes, rivalry, heroes, chases and races, danger ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
angola, cuba, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son ...
Style:
serious, captivating, thought provoking, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
civil war, treasure hunt, gem, mercenary, smuggling, greed, revolution, mining, rebel, journalism, life changing, rescue ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, year 2003, 20th century, year 1999 ...
Place:
africa, sierra leone, zimbabwe, south africa, angola ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style:
tense, political, emotional, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, racism, apartheid, rebellion, fighting the system, civil rights, police brutality, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, social problems ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1991, year 1980 ...
Place:
south africa, africa, angola
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Genre: Drama
Country: Angola, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing ...
Style:
neorealism, melancholic, social
Plot:
friendship, social realism, realism, childhood, children, city, nun, orphan, coming of age, civil war, refugee, poverty ...
Place:
angola, africa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Reunited after a 17 year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, romantic, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
adultery, lovers, father daughter relationship, missing mother, jealousy, teenage girl, love, female friendship, family relations, friendship, immigration, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, africa, usa, tanzania, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, resilience, reconnaissance, sole survivor, soldier, man versus nature, abandonment, guerilla warfare, isolation, pursuit, endurance, ruse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south africa, angola, cape town south africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Portugal, France, Angola
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a ...
Style:
period piece, tension, melancholic, dark, art house ...
Plot:
colonialism, decolonization, forbidden love, refugee, guilt, supernatural, identity crisis, tragic love, survival, spirituality, isolation, escape ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Place:
angola, portugal
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They ...
Style:
suspense, tension, action adventure, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jungle, survival, escape, fear, family drama, civil war, hostility, evacuation, desperation, political conflict, family bonds, man versus nature ...
Time:
70s
Place:
angola, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Angola, Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, cynical, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, revolution, fighting the system, state affairs, love and romance, against the rules, interracial relations, political unrest, dishonesty, society, colonialism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
angola, portugal, africa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Style:
tense, serious, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
epidemic, virus, heroic mission, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, experiment gone awry, plague, chaos, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Place:
angola, usa, virginia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, exciting, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, vengeance, family relations, hopes, haunted by the past, human nature, love and romance, unfulfillment, introspection, parents and children, friend, long lost daughter ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2001
Place:
canada, angola, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Angola, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
freedom fighter, colonialism, african, dictator, dictatorship, humanism, genocide, independence, activist, violence, blaxploitation, black ...
Place:
africa, portugal, angola
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
TV show
Story:
What side is love on?
Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their ...
Style:
romantic drama, exciting, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, interracial marriage, migration, marriage, family conflict, kids and family, couple relations, love, family problems, love affair, husband wife relationship, family life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
portugal, angola
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long banished to Africa for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch is now sent ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
stasi, cold war, communist, spy, communism, terrorism, espionage, berlin wall, homosexual, corruption, gay, socialism ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
east germany, germany, south africa, berlin germany, africa ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
evil child, killer child, island, children, pregnancy, isolation, manhunt, creepy kid, terror, murder, tourism, teenager ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, angola, fictional island
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of ...
Style:
surprise ending, parody, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
female nudity, pagan cult, odd couple, nude girl, husband leaves wife, italian abroad, mission, stealing a car, missing person, broken down car, ostrich, rain ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
africa, portugal, angola, kenya, rome italy
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Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, suspense, cult classic, grim ...
Plot:
terrorism, commando, cia, military, espionage, revenge, friendship, explosions, violent, rescue mission, sacrifice, loyalty ...
Place:
angola
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
law, lawyer, murder, violent content, danger, unfulfillment, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, legal, uncover truth, law enforcement, legal investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa, angola
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, factual, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
cia, espionage, cia agent, secret service, conspiracy theory, politician, journalism, conspiracy, greed, survival, politics, intelligence agency ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2001, year 2003, year 1995, year 2002 ...
Place:
middle east, iraq, beirut lebanon, cleveland ohio, canada ...
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