Movie List for "united kingdom"

The Amazing Grace (2006) Drama History Movie

The story of British slave trader John Newton’s voyage to West Africa and the events that inspired him to write the world’s most popular hymn, Amazing Grace. Year 2006.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Jeta Amata
Writer: Jeta Amata, Scott Cleverdon, Nick Moran
Actors: Nick Moran, Scott Cleverdon, Mbong Amata

Desert Flower (2009) Biography Drama Movie

Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife. She’s maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then McDonald’s, where she’s discovered and becomes int’l top model. 1997, she speaks up against female genital mutil Year 2009.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Sherry Hormann
Writer: Waris Dirie, Sherry Hormann, Cathleen Miller
Actors: Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar

Catch a Fire (2006) Biography Drama History Movie

A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime. Year 2006.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer: Shawn Slovo
Actors: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Mbuli

Hijack Stories (2000) Crime Drama Movie

A young actor of Soweto is failing to have a gangsta role. In order to incarnate better his role, he enters a gang. Year 2000.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Oliver Schmitz
Writer: Oliver Schmitz, Lesego Rampolokeng
Actors: Tony Kgoroge, Rapulana Seiphemo, Percy Matsemela

Kôkaku Kidôtai (1995) Animation Action Crime Movie

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. Year 1995.

Generes: Animation, Action, Crime
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Shirow Masamune, Kazunori Itô
Actors: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka

Sankofa (1993) Drama Movie

A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and even Year 1993.

Generes: Drama
Director: Haile Gerima
Writer: Haile Gerima
Actors: Kofi Ghanaba, Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah

Hyènes (1992) Comedy Drama Movie

Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change. Year 1992.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Writer: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Djibril Diop Mambéty
Actors: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye

Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) Drama Romance Movie

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent repu Year 2013.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Biyi Bandele
Writer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Biyi Bandele
Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandiwe Newton, Anika Noni Rose

Out of Africa (1985) Biography Drama Romance Movie

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Year 1985.

Generes: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Errol Trzebinski
Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Tsotsi (2005) Crime Drama Movie

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader. Year 2005.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Gavin Hood
Writer: Gavin Hood, Athol Fugard
Actors: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Matseke-Zulu

Gohatto (1999) Drama History Thriller Movie

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad. Year 1999.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Writer: Ryôtarô Shiba, Nagisa Ôshima
Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Biography Drama History Movie

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela’s life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Year 2013.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Justin Chadwick
Writer: William Nicholson, Nelson Mandela
Actors: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto

Sarafina! (1992) Drama Musical Movie

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising. Year 1992.

Generes: Drama, Musical
Director: Darrell Roodt
Writer: Mbongeni Ngema, William Nicholson
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Adventure Drama Movie

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant. Year 1984.

Generes: Adventure, Drama
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Towne, Michael Austin
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson

London River (2009) Drama Mystery Movie

Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London. Year 2009.

Generes: Drama, Mystery
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writer: Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle, Zoé Galeron
Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila

Shooting Dogs (2005) Drama History War Movie

A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Year 2005.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Writer: David Wolstencroft, Richard Alwyn, David Belton
Actors: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz