This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion. However, the rules of the game entail the opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The champion proceeds to insult, and trounce, the President. His reward, and his fate, will not surprise anyone.
Emmalou works as a waitress on a cruise ship filled with lonely people. She mourns the loss of her b...

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war ...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

Gugu is being thrown out by her husband Themba, who is apparently having an affair with an ex-girlfr...

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands w...

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...
A man writes what seem to be his last words, but what only he and nobody else knows is that the dest...
A lonely aged woman feels an irresistible attraction to a young man who works at the construction si...

Improvised over the course of a single night in Paris, this short film follows Fanny and Alexis, who...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his...

A young man having omitted to make the ritual offerings of voodoo, suffers the wrath of the spirits.