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 serious, realistic, independent film, suspenseful, tense and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with death, family relations, husband wife relationship, soldier, danger, terrorism, murder, state affairs, civil war and torture plots mostly in Drama, Action and History genres shot in USA, South Africa, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as angola: Another Day of Life (2018), Skeleton Coast (1988), High Explosive (2001), Farewell Amor (2020), The Legend of Rita (2000), Sweepers (1998), Blood Diamond (2006), April Captains (2000), Catch a Fire (2006), Hollow City (2004).

List of movies set in angola

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Another Day of Life (2018)
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, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: conflict, civil war, investigation, life risking, african, war, liberation, news report, travel, frontline, military life, wartime ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s
Place: angola, africa, portugal, poland, south africa ...
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 4.4
 526
Skeleton Coast (1988)
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, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, man on a mission, hostage, soldier, kidnapping, tough heroes, rivalry, heroes, confined, chases and races, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: angola, cuba, africa
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 4.5
 175
High Explosive (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: South Africa, UK, Canada
Story: Medical and de-mining personnel for the United Nations must escape from war-torn Angola before revolutionaries kill them.
Style: independent film
Plot: amputee, physician, rebel, civil war, escape, male female relationship, father son relationship, dog, minefield, revolutionary, broken arm, explosion ...
Place: angola, africa
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Farewell Amor (2020)
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: melancholic, disturbing, romantic, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: missing mother, husband wife relationship, adultery, love, friendship, family relations, loneliness, teenage girl, father daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, emigration, absent husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, africa, usa, tanzania, brooklyn new york city ...
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The Legend of Rita (2000)
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, loneliness, existentialism, raf, starting over, state affairs, danger, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany, angola, berlin germany, german democratic republic ...
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 4.3
 2K
Sweepers (1998)
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, die hard, espionage, vengeance, chases and races, race against time, escapades, save the day, rescue, danger, undercover, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: angola
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 8.0
 583K
Blood Diamond (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
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, harsh, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: greed, treasure hunt, mercenary, gem, civil war, escapades, smuggling, journalism, mining, brutality, slavery, revolution ...
Time: 90s, year 2006, year 2003, 20th century, year 1999 ...
Place: africa, sierra leone, south africa, zimbabwe, angola ...
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April Captains (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, Spain, Italy, France
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: serious, tense, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dictatorship, military coup, military, rebellion, coup d'etat, family relations, politics, state affairs, society, rebelliousness, siblings relations, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: portugal, africa, angola
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 6.7
 11K
Catch a Fire (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, 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, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, racism, politics, rebellion, fighting the system, apartheid, police brutality, civil rights, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1980, year 1991 ...
Place: south africa, africa, angola
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 6.7
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Hollow City (2004)
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: social
Plot: african, beach, prostitute, murder, friendship, runaway, handgun, fisherman, orphan, coming of age, civil war, nun ...
Place: africa, angola
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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
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, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, virus, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, heroic mission, plague, experiment gone awry, chaos, heroes, danger ...
Place: usa, angola, virginia
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Between Strangers (2002)
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: vengeance, family relations, forbidden love, 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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 5.7
 100
The Recce (2018)
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.
Plot: international relations, survival, special forces, behind enemy lines, military, mourning
Time: 80s
Place: south africa, angola, cape town south africa
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 7.0
 673
Sambizanga (1972)
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: colonialism, dictator, dictatorship, african, blaxploitation, violence, racial issues, woman, black, genocide, independence, activist ...
Place: africa, portugal, angola
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa (1968)
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: parody, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: female nudity, odd couple, odyssey, family relations, on the road, nudity, rain, high society, missing person, ostrich, accountant, italian abroad ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: africa, portugal, kenya, rome italy, angola
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Escape from Angola (1976)
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: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: jungle, jungle adventure, explorer, ranch, lion, animal, wildlife, rancher, insurgent, family relations
Place: africa, angola
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Merchants of War (1989)
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: cult classic, independent film
Plot: dead boy, muslim, rescue mission, terrorism, conference, dead child, cia, vietnam veteran, female nudity, soldier, breasts, severed head ...
Place: angola
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A Reasonable Man (1999)
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, legal investigation, legal, losing-it hero, dedicated lawyer, danger, rivalry, uncover truth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: south africa, africa, angola
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 6.8
 51K
Fair Game (2010)
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, intense, factual, political thriller, thought provoking ...
Plot: cia, espionage, politics, corruption, secret service, political conspiracy, secret agent, politician, journalism, newspaper, conspiracy theory, cia agent ...
Time: year 2010, year 2002, year 2003, year 1993, year 1982 ...
Place: iraq, middle east, africa, washington d.c., beirut lebanon ...
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