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Directed by Franklin J. SchaffnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Films set in AfricaActors Lesley-Anne Down,
Frank Langella,
Maurice Ronet,
Behrouz Vossoughi,
John Gielgud,
John Rhys-DaviesRating51%
Dedicated Egyptologist Erica Baron is researching a paper about the chief architect to Pharaoh Seti. Soon after her arrival in Cairo, she witnesses the brutal murder of unscrupulous art dealer Abdu-Hamdi, meets a French journalist named Yeon, and is befriended by Akmed Khazzan, who heads the antiquities division of the United Nations. When she journeys to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to search a tomb reportedly filled with treasures, she finds herself the target of black marketeers determined to keep the riches themselves., 2h11
Directed by John GlenOrigin United-kingdomGenres Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about children,
Spy films,
Films about terrorism,
Political filmsActors Timothy Dalton,
Maryam d'Abo,
Jeroen Krabbé,
Desmond Llewelyn,
Art Malik,
John Rhys-DaviesRating66%
James Bond—Agent 007—is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during the orchestra's intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain., 1h54
Directed by Richard DonnerOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about drugs,
Films about racism,
Buddy filmsActors Mel Gibson,
Danny Glover,
Joe Pesci,
Joss Ackland,
Derrick O'Connor,
Patsy KensitRating72%
One year after the events of Lethal Weapon, LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are pursuing unidentified suspects transporting an illegal shipment of gold krugerrands. The Afrikaner apartheid government of South Africa subsequently orders local consul-general Arjen Rudd (Joss Ackland) and security agent Pieter Vorstedt (Derrick O'Connor) to warn both detectives off the investigation; they are reassigned to protecting an obnoxious federal witness, Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), after an attack on Murtaugh's home., 1h55
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Harrison Ford,
Karen Allen,
Paul Freeman,
Ronald Lacey,
John Rhys-Davies,
Denholm ElliottRating79%
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman) and the indigenous Hovito people. Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones is forced to surrender the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane., 1h51
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about religion,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Road moviesActors Brooke Shields,
Lambert Wilson,
Horst Buchholz,
John Rhys-Davies,
John Mills,
Gene BarryRating49%
The setting is in the year 1927. After her father dies, a young American heiress, Dale disguises herself as a man and takes the place of her father in an international car race through the Sahara. Dale is taken prisoner by Rasoul, but is rescued by Jaffar. However, more trouble awaits her before she can finish the race. Dale falls in love with Jaffar and marries him. Rasoul ends up dying in the end. She wins the race, becoming the first woman to win this international car race., 1h40
Directed by J. Lee ThompsonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in AfricaActors Richard Chamberlain,
Sharon Stone,
Herbert Lom,
John Rhys-Davies,
Shaike Ophir,
Bernard ArchardRating52%
Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone) hires Allan Quatermain to find her father, believed lost on an expedition to find the fabled King Solomon's Mines. Together with his companion, the mysterious Umbopo, they penetrate unknown country, following a map believed to be genuine. It transpires that Professor Huston has been captured by a German military expedition on the same quest, led by Bockner (Herbert Lom), a single-minded knackwurst-munching, bald-headed Colonel and a ruthless Turkish slave-trader and adventurer, Dogati (John Rhys-Davies). Huston is being forced to interpret another map, also believed to be genuine., 1h37
Origin United-kingdomGenres HorrorThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about animals,
Natural horror films,
Films about apesActors John Rhys-Davies,
Timothy Bottoms,
Irene Miracle,
Michele Carey,
Calvin JungRating52%
The film, based on a true story, shows the events of an incident that happened in Kenya in 1984. A severe drought happened, and 90,000 starving babboons went on a rampage, killing humans and animals in their way., 1h47
Directed by Michael RadfordOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films set in AfricaActors Greta Scacchi,
Charles Dance,
Joss Ackland,
Sarah Miles,
John Hurt,
Geraldine ChaplinRating63%
With much of the rest of the world at war, a number of bored British aristocrats live dissolute and hedonistic lives in a region of British Kenya known as Happy Valley, drinking, drugging and indulging in decadent sexual affairs to pass the time., 1h39
Directed by Timothy BondOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Fantasy,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about animals,
Dinosaur films,
La préhistoireActors John Rhys-Davies,
Eric McCormack,
David Warner,
Tamara GorskiRating53%
Set in 1912, the film opens on Edward Malone, a junior reporter looking for an adventurous assignment. Malone is sent to interview Professor Challenger, an explorer and researcher who believes he is on the trail of the "lost world," a mysterious place in Central Africa. Challenger has a picture of a cliff and a strange beast resembling a pterodactyl that is his only proof of the place.