Yaaba (1989)
• August 23rd, 1989 • 1h 30min
Family, Drama
Overview
A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sounds of Sand
Released on: 2007-05-02
Drama, War
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...
The Young Girl
Released on: 1975-01-01
Drama
A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...
The African Queen
Released on: 1952-01-07
Romance, Adventure, Drama
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...
Shaft in Africa
Released on: 1973-06-14
Action, Crime, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Mining for God
Released on: 2015-08-10
Family, Documentary
America has long been called a Christian nation. In fact, over 70% of adults in America identify th...
Vengeance
Released on: 1930-02-22
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...
The Last King of Scotland
Released on: 2006-09-27
Drama
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
Aderyn Papur... and Pigs Might Fly
Released on: 1984-01-01
Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...
Turtles Can Fly
Released on: 2005-01-07
Drama
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean...
The Lion King
Released on: 1994-06-15
Family, Animation, Drama, Adventure
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...
The Crusade
Released on: 2021-12-22
Comedy, Family
Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is ...
The Cinema Ticket
Released on: 1995-01-01
Comedy, Family
A determined young boy living in a small village strives to obtain enough money to purchase a ticket...
The Big Gamble
Released on: 1961-07-25
Adventure, Action, Comedy, Drama
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...
The Forgotten Hill
Released on: 1996-05-19
Drama
At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...
Machaho
Released on: 1995-01-01
Drama, Comedy
In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...
Mercury Rising
Released on: 1998-04-03
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government...
Johnny Mad Dog
Released on: 2008-05-20
Drama, History, War
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...
Flatfoot in Africa
Released on: 1978-03-22
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...
Pinocchio
Released on: 1940-02-23
Animation, Family, Fantasy
A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
The Silence of the Forest
Released on: 2003-05-19
Drama, Adventure
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...