Malaria movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant malaria movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, crying, touching and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with malaria, death, danger, society, friendship, rifle, doctor, husband wife relationship, brutality and drinking alcohol plots mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as malaria: Mary and Martha (2013), DAMaN (2022), Paradise Road (1997), Paradise: Love (2012), Captain Conan (1996), Killing Heat (1981), Freetown (2015), Iskander (2018), Francesco (1989), The Grand Duke Of Corsica (2021).
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education,including a trip to Southern Africa. Whilst in Mozambique George is bitten by a mosquito which crawls through a hole in his net and dies of malaria. ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
malaria, hospital, death of child, illness, political activism, volunteer, dealing with death, human spirit, redemption, hopes, parent child relationship, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
missionary, jungle, religion, nudity, culture clash, civilization, greed, christianity, male nudity, malaria, genocide, adventurer ...
Time:
year 1991, 60s, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, argentina, south america, india
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The film is set in 2015. Sid, is a young doctor who completed his MBBS has been posted to the cut-off of area of Malkangiri district Odisha having 151 villages & infamous for Naxals dominance & no basic facilities. It's journey of a ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
remote village, public health, doctor, malaria, remote location, disease, doctor patient relationship, adventure hero, social problems, male doctor, perseverance, real life ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2015
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Paradise Road is a 1997 film which tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as beatific Adrienne Pargiter, ...
Style:
touching, harsh, costume drama, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, pow, prison, holocaust, island, war crime, justice, friendship, women, women's prison, nazi, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
japan, indonesia, asia, singapore, germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
tourist, beach, interracial relations, sexual intercourse, older woman younger man relationship, hotel, exploitation, strong sexual content, resort, tenderness, black man white woman relationship, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, kenya, germany
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
world war one, french army, heroism, frontline, brutality, military life, society, great war, insubordination, danger, french military, investigation ...
Time:
year 1918, 20th century, year 1996, 1910s, post world war one ...
Place:
macedonia, romania, europe, brittany, balkan ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Zambia, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
colonialism, nudity, marriage crisis, rural area, violent content, losing-it hero, misfit, love and romance, dull life, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
zimbabwe, africa, south africa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ghana
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
Style:
realistic, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
hopes, missionary, human spirit, rescue, heroic mission, state affairs, danger, daring rescue, political unrest, racism, faith, bravery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
liberia, africa, west africa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
Rookie cop Chloé, a new arrival to French Guiana, investigates the ritualistic double murder of a French couple and their missing son.
Style:
detective
Plot:
folk horror, folklore, double murder, voodoo, captivity, witch doctor, female police officer, paganism, laziness, river, loss of child, police officer ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to ...
Style:
emotional, serious, bleak, factual, cult classic ...
Plot:
saint, religion, historical event, monk, male nudity, medieval, clergy, christian, male pubic hair, hopes, religions or cults, starting over ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 13th century, year 1989, 12th century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. An epidemic hits the Island and all must flee, but Alfred remains to finish the job.
Style:
captivating, humorous, unusual plot structure, feel good, tense ...
Plot:
architect, billionaire, friends, society, friendship, art, malaria, leprosy, rich man, doctor, sex scene, terminal illness ...
Place:
malta, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. However, the girl is resold to the farmer Lourenço that deflowers her, and he gives the ...
Style:
rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
teenage prostitute, child prostitution, prostitution, child abuse, sex slave, slave trader, forced prostitution, prostitute, brothel, slave girl, sex slavery, slave trade ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of an incurable virus spread, a robot seeking to eradicate humanity deceptively guides a Red Cross survivor to sanctuary with the false hope of his family awaiting in Safe Zone 57.
Style:
epic, psychotronic, educational, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
sole survivor, zombie outbreak, robot, cholera, infection, journey, expedition, top secret, quarantine, zombie attack, imagination, loss of father ...
Time:
future, 2020s, near future, year 2019
Place:
utah, china, usa, washington d.c., colorado ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Style:
rom com, entertaining, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
slutty attitude, older woman younger man relationship, neurotic woman, male objectification, love, rivalry, ex husband ex wife relationship, older woman younger man, milf, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
los angeles, pacific ocean, new york, greece, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Style:
cult classic, offbeat, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mercenary, world war two, rescue mission, commando, nazi, training, behind enemy lines, mission, tough guy, sex scene, irishman, embassy ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
west berlin west germany, germany, east germany, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Style:
erotic, romantic, crying
Plot:
incest, peeping, puberty, female masturbation, erotica, girl, child protagonist, abusive parent, female nudity, sex between cousins, sensuality, porn ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948
Place:
italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century.
Plot:
world history, french foreign legion, female journalist, desert, islam, journalist, french colonialism, military, women, explorer, writers, nihilism ...
Time:
year 1900, 1900s
Place:
algeria, morocco, paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, great war, war, military, swamp, world war, conflict, battles, soldier, jungle warfare, pacific war, chaos ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, year 1944
Place:
asia, burma, japan, pacific ocean, southeast asia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, island, war, military, survival, escapades, danger, soldier, anti war, world war, stranded, u.s. army ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, History
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.
Style:
reflective, inspirational, tension, uplifting, educational ...
Plot:
slavery, plantation, religious, evangelical christianity, island, spiritual awakening, devotional, sea voyage, sacrifice, perseverance, coming of age, faith ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
west indies
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cultural revolution, unrequited love, dressmaker, mountain village, anti communist, love triangle, culture clash, coming of age, fall in love, love affair, social differences, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
china, asia, east asia, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.
Style:
serious, sincere, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, puppeteer, anti war, politics, wartime life, performer's life, asian history, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, storytelling ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1993, 1900s ...
Place:
taiwan, china, taipei
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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:
child in peril, african tribe, survival, kidnapping, escape, boy, arab, wilderness, self discovery, confined, danger, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sudan, africa, north africa
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, war, military, prisoner of war camp, escape, hopes, jungle, christian, soldier, war crime, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
japan, asia, scotland, hawaii, india ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, sincere, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
islam, desert, politics, on the road, brutality, survival, culture clash, suicide, women, rescue, self discovery, danger ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, iraq ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the war first hand by promoting and joining a volunteer cavalry ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
american history, civil war, u.s. president, spanish american war, battles, president, soldier, state affairs, heroic mission, political unrest, military life, male friendship ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
latin america, san antonio texas, new mexico, cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style:
touching, visually stunning, sexy, period piece, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
love story, writers, love and romance, colonialism, true love, love, infidelity, nobility, fall in love, destiny, tribal chief, hunter ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, ancient times, 20th century, victorian era ...
Place:
africa, kenya, south africa, denmark
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style:
clever, independent film, romantic comedy, heartfelt, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, dating, loneliness, passionate kiss, magic, ship, grief, flirting, siblings ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, period piece ...
Plot:
wilderness, expedition, british empire, betrayal, survival, gay, friendship, heroic mission, escapades, danger, colonialism, disaster ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, turn of the century, 1850s
Place:
africa, east africa, south africa, somalia, cairo egypt ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Germany
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, friendship, father son relationship, revenge, divorce, childhood, parenthood, youth, society, alienation, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
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