Movies like Moolaadé
If Moolaadé's mix of magic, tradition and africa stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Moolaadé's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 254 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: feminism
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2019 · Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor · 113 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: africa
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
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Desert Flower
2009 · Directed by Sherry Hormann · 127 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: africa · From the same decade (2000s)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital…
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The Woman King
2022 · Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood · 135 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: africa
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains…
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A United Kingdom
2016 · Directed by Amma Asante · 111 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: africa
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British…
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The Sheltering Sky
1990 · Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci · 138 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: africa
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.