Movies and TV shows set in rwanda
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in rwanda ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, brutal, tension, dark, disturbing and serious films and TV shows about / with hopes, youth, rwandan genocide, boy, murder, machete, african, genocide, brutality and civil war plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in USA, France, Rwanda and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rwanda: A Sunday in Kigali (2006), Sometimes in April (2005), Shooting Dogs (2005), Shake Hands with the Devil (2007), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Black Earth Rising (2018), Munyurangabo (2007), Trees of Peace (2021), Our Lady of the Nile (2019), Hate Songs (2024).
List of movies set in rwanda
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial ...
Style:
serious, emotional, political, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, rwandan genocide, fall in love, aids, interracial romance, politics, hopes, journalism, love affair, social differences, against humanity, racism ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
rwanda, africa, france, east africa, uganda ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Rwanda, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
genocide, massacre, coup, racism, against humanity, rwandan genocide, murder, civil war, politics, mass child killing, ethnic cleansing, mass murder ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1994, 90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, washington d.c., uganda, france ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, sad, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
genocide, politics, coup d'etat, violence, survival, against the odds, rwandan genocide, teacher, survivor, priest, fighting the system, human spirit ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, year 1994
Place:
africa, rwanda, united kingdom, uganda, tanzania ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, politics, rwandan genocide, civil war, betrayal, hopes, chaos, military, dishonesty, righting the wronged, anti war, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, rwanda, ireland, uganda, east africa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...
Style:
emotional, intense, sincere, rough, political ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
genocide, racism, hotel, against humanity, war, violence, politics, cruelty, civil war, war crime, refugee, un ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place:
rwanda, africa, south africa, congo, somalia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, political, visual ...
Plot:
justice, genocide, social justice, conspiracy, survivor, black, legal, life is a bitch, female protagonist, society, badass, african american ...
Place:
rwanda, africa, east africa, uganda, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Rwanda, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
Plot:
genocide, hopes, society, friends, injustice, escapades, village, leaving home, obsessive quest, rwandan genocide, social problems, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rwanda, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, brutal ...
Plot:
genocide, survival, women's rights, woman in danger, struggle for survival, political unrest, civil rights movement, female protagonist, sorority, civil rights, leader, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
rwanda, africa, tanzania, france, east africa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Rwanda, Monaco
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, psychological, tension, tense ...
Plot:
boarding school, female protagonist, coming of age, women, catholic, adolescence vs adulthood, social problems, society, teenage girl, grownups, social issues, political unrest ...
Place:
africa, rwanda
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two actors and a technician are gathered at the former Rwandan propaganda radio station to rehearse a program that conveys ideas of pacification and hope. But first they will have to overcome the terrible past that unites them.
Style:
tense, intense, art house
Plot:
trauma, radio station, guilt, haunting, reconciliation, survivor, memory, intimate, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, remorse, confession ...
Place:
rwanda
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Liberia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, sad ...
Plot:
child soldier, children in wartime, civil war, orphan, life is a bitch, soldier, against humanity, society, youth, atrocity, tourism, realism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
africa, liberia, rwanda, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
children, family relations, genocide, brutality, election, school teacher, birthday, friendship, culture clash, parents and children, dishonesty, mentor ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, year 1993, year 1994
Place:
africa, rwanda, east africa, tanzania, uganda ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become interwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Style:
touching, christian film, inspirational
Plot:
christian, conflict, overcoming, black history, faith, catholic, rwandan genocide, pastor, teenage daughter, father daughter relationship, machete, church ...
Place:
rwanda, nashville tennessee
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t been able to ...
Style:
creepy, horrifying, brutal, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
african, rwandan genocide, aid worker, conflict, trapped, ptsd, dead boy, machine gun, dead man, infection, prisoner, rape ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
africa, east africa, france, tanzania, uganda ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, inspirational, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
animal, jungle, gorilla, environmental, forest, biopic, extinction, brutality, environmentalism, human spirit, nature, hunting ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place:
africa, south africa, congo, rwanda
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, Rwanda
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Africa United" tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg. But the problems begin when Fabrice, Dudu ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
hopes, soccer, on the road, friendship, football, follow your dream, adventurer, escapades, young heroes, optimism, road trip, child's point of view ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, zimbabwe, south africa, tanzania, congo ...
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