Movies and TV shows set in sudan

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in sudan ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, independent film, exciting and touching films and TV shows about / with explosion, desert, death, danger, murder, islam, politics, military, violence and escape plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sudan: The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019), Attack on Darfur (2009), The Good Lie (2014), I Am Slave (2010), Machine Gun Preacher (2011), The Constant Gardener (2005), Khartoum (1966), The Four Feathers (1978), The Four Feathers (2002), East of Sudan (1964).

List of movies set in sudan

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The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, non-linear, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mossad, spy, refugee, resort, saving a life, team, business, nothing goes right, terrorism, nazi, secret, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place: israel, sudan, africa, palestine, ethiopia
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Attack on Darfur (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Style: disturbing, captivating, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: genocide, journalism, journalist, desert, murder, tragedy, civil war, uncover truth, against humanity, survival, photojournalist, injustice ...
Place: sudan, africa
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 7.4
 30K
The Good Lie (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: refugee, survival, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, courage, civil war, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
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 6.7
 2K
I Am Slave (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a ...
Style: disturbing, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: slavery, kidnapping, life is a bitch, woman in danger, injustice, confined, society, master and servant, teenage girl, african, women, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sudan, africa, england, london
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
Style: inspirational, heroic, realistic, touching, biblical ...
Plot: lone hero, gunfight, christian, christianity, religion, civil war, children, child in peril, atrocity, protector, army, biopic ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2003, 21st century
Place: uganda, africa, sudan, pennsylvania
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The Constant Gardener (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Kenya, France, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very ...
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, tense, political, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, spy, investigation, corruption, murder, cover up, death, aids, politics, marriage, idealism, politician ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, germany, kenya, south africa ...
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 6.8
 8K
Khartoum (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under ...
Style: epic, realistic, factual, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot: islam, imperialism, military, culture clash, politics, colonialism, siege, british empire, wartime, battles, revolution, war ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, year 1966
Place: africa, sudan, england, belgium, london ...
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The Four Feathers (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: They made him a hero by branding him a coward . . . the story of a man who conquered fear.
Plot: british empire, men's rights, revolution, combat, conservative, islam, religious, military, historical event, arab, cowardice, disguise ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: sudan
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The Four Feathers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: military, war, redemption, imperialism, british empire, colonialism, slavery, desert, soldier, escape, cavalry, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2002, 1880s, 1890s
Place: sudan, england, britain, africa, america ...
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 5.0
 276
East of Sudan (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
Style: vintage
Plot: children, tribe, crocodile, governess, exotic locale, british empire, historical event, pursuit, rain, siege, jungle, ship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: sudan, africa
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Live and Become (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Style: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: adoption, racism, boy, family relations, rescue, refugee, rabbi, hidden identity, love of one's life, fall in love, orphan, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 80s
Place: africa, israel, middle east, palestine, paris france ...
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 6.4
 393
Abdeen Palace (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Egypt
Duration: 39 min.
TV show
Story: A period drama about the time of Khedive Isma'il Pasha's reign, focusing on the inside world of Abdeen palace, where competitive conflict develops between the Harem in order to win the Khedive's heart, against a backdrop of political ...
Style: period piece, exciting, historical drama, captivating, stylized
Plot: historical character, ancient history, arabic history, historical figure, kingdom, world history, king, royal palace, royal court, historical event
Place: egypt, sudan
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You Will Die at 20 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother son relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, death, relationships, life & death, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, predicting the future, prediction ...
Place: north africa, sudan, africa
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 8.1
 33K
Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorist, mission, soldier, top secret, swat team, heroes, one man army, cia agent, daring rescue, heroic mission, terrorism ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, afghanistan, iraq, middle east, sudan ...
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Young Winston (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot: soldier, military, parliament, politics, ambition, society, rise to the top, war correspondent, rise to power, imperialism, medieval, british empire ...
Time: turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, victorian era, year 1972 ...
Place: england, africa, britain, morocco, south africa ...
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 6.9
 2K
Zarafa (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched ...
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, exciting, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: giraffe, obsessive quest, friendship, escapades, orphan, heroes, confined, captivity, desert, young heroes, youth, travel ...
Time: 19th century
Place: africa, sudan, paris france
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Carlos the Jackal (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 334 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Style: suspenseful, political, atmospheric, captivating, epic ...
Plot: terrorism, revolutionary, murderer, terrorist, gunfight, biopic, politics, revolution, mossad, character study, danger, mission ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2010, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: south america, lebanon, palestine, israel, berlin germany ...
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 8.1
 567
Goodbye Julia (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to ...
Plot: singer, police corruption, choir, death, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, school, police, murder, concert, dancing, lie ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s
Place: sudan
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 6.7
 182K
The Old Guard (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Four immortal mercenaries who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
Style: visually appealing, action adventure, exciting, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: immortality, strong female lead, immortal, superhero, black ops, female protagonist, female killer, female warrior, gay, tough girl, regeneration, assassination attempt ...
Time: middle ages, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, hawaii, london, france, morocco ...
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 5.7
 27K
Close (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.
Style: suspense, disturbing, sincere, psychological, perverse ...
Plot: heiress, female protagonist, strong female character, bodyguard, female bodyguard, female warrior, one woman army, tough girl, kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, ak 47 ...
Time: 2010s
Place: morocco, england, sudan, africa
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A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963)
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different ...
Style: esoteric, crying
Plot: boy, journey, coming of age, british empire, children in wartime, child protagonist, vaccination, mountain, police, ruins, desert, military ...
Time: year 1963, year 1957, year 1956
Place: africa, south africa, egypt, sudan
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In Desert and Wilderness (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When 15 year old Stas Tarkowski and 9 year old Nel Rawlinson are kidnapped by rebels fighting for the great Arab leader - the Mahdi - their fathers desperately organize a search party. But the Mahdi uprising is spreading rapidly across North Africa ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, african tribe, kidnapping, wilderness, boy, arab, child in peril, danger, confined, self discovery, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sudan, north africa, africa
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Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant, Hattie Durham. In the midst of a flight to London, a number of their passengers mysteriously ...
Style: biblical, inspirational, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: disaster, redemption, end of the world, natural disaster, god, chaos, stewardess, danger, supernatural, journalism, save the world, race against time ...
Time: 90s, future, 2000s
Place: england, israel, london, europe, chicago ...
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 6.9
 59K
Traitor (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, islam, religion, conspiracy, faith, bomb, twists and turns, cia, propaganda, traitor, spy ...
Time: year 2008, year 1978, 21st century
Place: chicago, sudan, los angeles, nice france, toronto ontario canada ...
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In a Better World (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Style: thought provoking, touching, bleak, harsh, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, bullying, father son relationship, friendship, revenge, divorce, loneliness, childhood, youth, parenthood, society, alienation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
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 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
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