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1. The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens, Christoph Waltz

Votes: 189,246 | Gross: $126.64M

2. Big Fish (2003)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange

Votes: 459,796 | Gross: $66.26M

3. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 373,056 | Gross: $23.53M

4. Congo (1995)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson

Votes: 48,825 | Gross: $81.02M

5. The Good Shepherd (2006)

R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 108,743 | Gross: $59.95M

6. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán

Votes: 104,924 | Gross: $16.78M

7. The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

TV-MA | 108 min | Action, Drama, History

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

Director: Richie Smyth | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mark Strong, Mikael Persbrandt

Votes: 44,576

8. The Nun's Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Drama

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Votes: 11,765 | Gross: $12.80M

9. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.

Directors: Hideo Kojima, Junji Tago | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robin Atkin Downes, Troy Baker, Stefanie Joosten

Votes: 8,580

10. Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014 Video)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

Tom Sizemore stars in the most explosive Behind Enemy Lines yet! Seal Team 8 must fight their way through the Congo to defuse one of the greatest threats the world has ever known.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Lex Shrapnel, Anthony Oseyemi, Michael Everson

Votes: 3,090

11. The Last Adventure (1967)

M | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.

Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani

Votes: 3,883

12. Farewell, Friend (1968)

M/PG | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After an overseas deployment, two former French Foreign Legion members plan to break into the vault of a French corporation.

Director: Jean Herman | Stars: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Brigitte Fossey, Olga Georges-Picot

Votes: 4,111

13. Dark of the Sun (1968)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Jim Brown

Votes: 3,554

14. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, History

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »

Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant

Votes: 2,804 | Gross: $0.09M

15. Virunga (2014)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, War

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel | Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby, Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo

Votes: 12,277

16. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.

Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo

Votes: 5,633

17. Fight Like a Girl (2024)

Drama, Sport

A young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors and finds a new life for herself as a professional boxer. Based on true events.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Ama Qamata, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Malaika Uwamahoro, Bahali Ruth

18. Unwatchable (2011)

6 min | Short, Drama, War

The rape of a family in the rural idyll of England. Reconstruction of a true story that took place in the Congo.

Director: Marc Hawker | Stars: James Alexander, Jack Bannell, Angela Dixon, Pete Garrett

Votes: 75

19. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 593

20. Bwana Devil (1952)

Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

Directors: Arch Oboler, Robert Clampett | Stars: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill

Votes: 425

21. The Dinosaur Project (2012)

PG-13 | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A British expedition formed by the lead researcher Jonathan Marchant, his assistant, a doctor and a TV crew, travels to Congo to seek evidence of a dinosaur.

Director: Sid Bennett | Stars: Richard Dillane, Peter Brooke, Matt Kane, Natasha Loring

Votes: 5,865

22. Lumumba (2000)

Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto

Votes: 2,086 | Gross: $0.68M

23. The Seven Red Berets (1969)

90 min | Action, Drama

Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Ivan Rassimov, Sieghardt Rupp, Kirk Morris, Pamela Tudor

Votes: 101

24. More Than I Want to Remember (2022)

14 min | Animation, Short

One night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself ... See full summary »

Director: Amy Bench | Star: Mugeni Ornella

Votes: 247

25. Africa Screams (1949)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck

Votes: 4,070

26. The Congo Murders (2018)

122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache.

Director: Marius Holst | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Tobias Santelmann, Ine F. Jansen, Anthony Oseyemi

Votes: 1,832

27. Parole de flic (1985)

98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Retired police officer Daniel Pratt's teenage daughter is killed by a gang of hooded men. Pratt begins his own investigation to find the killers and who ordered them to do it - and take personal revenge out of the judicial system.

Director: José Pinheiro | Stars: Alain Delon, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin, Éva Darlan

Votes: 1,254

28. The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Romance

While the Nazi regime subjugates European nations during World War II, in the Belgian Congo nurse Rachel Cade tries to cure the local people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but an injured young American pilot upsets his plans.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John

Votes: 607

29. The Birds and the Bees (1956)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 250

30. Reporter (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

Journalist Nicholas Kristof travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the growing humanitarian crisis.

Director: Eric Daniel Metzgar | Stars: Eric Daniel Metzgar, Nicholas Kristof, Samantha Power, Gail Collins

Votes: 117

31. Sara's Notebook (2018)

TV-MA | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A Spanish woman travels to darkest heart of Africa looking for her long-time missed younger sister.

Director: Norberto López Amado | Stars: Belén Rueda, Marian Álvarez, Iván Mendes, Manolo Cardona

Votes: 2,897

32. Nature (2011 Video)

Not Rated | 87 min | Thriller

Nature is an erotic suspense drama about a young couple, Roger and Eva on a quest to rediscover their sexual fervor. After a failed experiment with role-playing games, they decide to take a... See full summary »

Director: Jeff Pickett | Stars: Lyudmila Shiryaeva, Ryan Harper Gray, Jeff Pickett, Lizzy Davis

Votes: 206

33. This is Congo (2017)

TV-MA | 93 min | Documentary, History, War

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

Director: Daniel McCabe

Votes: 348 | Gross: $0.00M

34. Little Eggs: An African Rescue (2021)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.

Directors: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste | Stars: Bruno Bichir, Maite Perroni, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale

Votes: 314

35. Black Jesus (1968)

GP | 89 min | Drama

Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi

Votes: 329 | Gross: $0.33M

36. Rwanda: The Untold Story (2014)

59 min | Documentary

Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current ... See full summary »

Director: John Conroy | Stars: Howard Adelman, Kofi Annan, Marie Bamutese, Tony Blair

Votes: 29

37. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (1999 Video)

88 min | Adventure, War

Africa, December 1916. Despite disobeying orders, Indy is promoted to Captain after capturing a German machine gun. He is then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Major Boucher to ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, Bryan Pringle, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 537

38. Diamonds (2009 TV Movie)

240 min | Drama

A complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business, wrapped around a murder of a United States Senator's daughter.

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: James Purefoy, Judy Davis, Derek Jacobi, Joanne Kelly

Votes: 265

39. Maoussi

Comedy, Drama, Romance | Post-production

Babette unexpectedly finds herself sharing her small Parisian apartment with Edo, a Congolese refugee. When an escaped lab mouse makes itself known, their lives are turned upside down as they try to navigate conflicting expectations.

Director: Charlotte Schioler | Stars: Moustapha Mbengue, Charlotte Schioler, Elsa Wolliaston, Alain Figlarz

40. White Witch Doctor (1953)

Passed | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak, Mashood Ajala

Votes: 763

41. Africa Speaks! (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.

Director: Walter Futter | Stars: Harald Austin, Paul L. Hoefler, Lowell Thomas, Charles Gemora

Votes: 138

42. Operation Leopard (1980)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.

Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck

Votes: 403

43. Makala (2017)

96 min | Documentary

Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

Director: Emmanuel Gras | Stars: Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo

Votes: 776

44. Fury of the Congo (1951)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 307

45. Blood in the Mobile (2010)

83 min | Documentary

Documentary. The dark side of our cell phones. No company can say for sure that they didn't buy conflict minerals from the Congo to produce your cell phone.

Director: Frank Piasecki Poulsen | Stars: Frank Piasecki Poulsen, Bernhard, Chance, Annie Dunnebacke

Votes: 502

46. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)

54 min | Documentary, History, Music

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: H. Rap Brown, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon

Votes: 936

47. Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991)

Not Rated | 69 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

Director: Raoul Peck | Star: Patrice Lumumba

Votes: 179

48. Kinshasa Symphony (2010)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary

The Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented:... See full summary »

Directors: Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer | Stars: Joseph Masunda Lutete, Albert Nlanzu Matubanza, Nathalie Angwanguilo Bahati, Armand Wabasolele Diangienda

Votes: 173

49. Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)

91 min | Adventure

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Mala Powers, Marshall Thompson, James Lanphier, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 178

50. Mr. Coconut (1989)

100 min | Comedy, Family

Mr. Coconut, who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. Mr. Coconut has finally reunited with his family, ... See full summary »

Director: Clifton Ko | Stars: Michael Hui, Raymond Pak-Ming Wong, Olivia Cheng, Joey Wang

Votes: 247