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Kanopy
81
7.3
/6249/
70
/125/
69
/81/
3.8
/2799/
93
/105/
81
/386/
89
/25/

Goodbye Solo (2009)
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.4
/446/
61
/9/
66
/7/
3.7
/790/
100
/9/
86
/3/

Guelwaar (1993)
Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/17337/
75
/891/
78
/794/
3.9
/65585/
96
/113/
87
/43/
79
/25/

Io Capitano (2023)
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
poster
Netflix
77
6.7
/11115/
67
/417/
67
/274/
3.7
/44045/
96
/159/
64
/26/
85
/30/
cc age 15+

Atlantics (2019)
Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
74
7.4
/7033/
77
/217/
72
/162/
4.1
/54176/
94
/33/
75
/51/
75
/7/

Black Girl (1966)
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
poster
The Roku Channel
73
7.5
/1118/
76
/41/
64
/21/
3.5
/327/
78
/46/
82
/67/
68
/10/

The End of the Line (2009)
Examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues that drastic action must be taken to reverse these trends. Examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
poster
Hoopla
72
6.1
/3509/
63
/227/
64
/39/
3.4
/12120/
96
/55/
66
/21/
78
/11/

Saloum (2023)
Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
6.7
/2154/
64
/32/
68
/42/
3.5
/5647/
91
/11/
63
/67/
80
/11/

Xala (1975)
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.4
/97559/
73
/1416/
72
/1175/
3.9
/63829/
66
/151/
75
/1684/
58
/33/
cc age 17+

Biutiful (2010)
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
poster
Netflix
68
7.7
/3508/
74
/312/
74
/65/
3.5
/2357/
58
/12/
73
/10/
cc age 10+

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (2021)
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
poster
65
6.4
/346/
66
/20/
63
/35/
3.2
/1127/
86
/7/

Mali Twist (2022)
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
5.3
/9007/
56
/575/
53
/219/
3.1
/28403/
91
/148/
67
/58/
72
/30/
cc age 15+

Nanny (2022)
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
64
7.0
/4612/
70
/129/
66
/105/
3.8
/24652/
88
/16/
66
/40/

Touki Bouki (1973)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
56
7.3
/1742/
68
/57/
70
/43/
3.8
/7819/
100
/23/
75
/11/
73
/9/

Mandabi (1968)
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
poster
Netflix
56
3.6
/33221/
46
/716/
51
/455/
2.5
/24774/
88
/80/
14
/396/
67
/16/
cc age 15+

Cuties (2020)
Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.
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Kanopy
76
51
7.4
/1516/
70
/40/
71
/35/
4.0
/6008/
91
/11/
72
/16/

Hyenas (1992)
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
46
6.6
/1294/
62
/33/
67
/34/
3.6
/2661/
80
/10/
64
/5/
70
/6/

Ceddo (1978)
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.
poster
81
42
7.7
/753/
66
/18/
74
/21/
4.1
/2112/
100
/5/
92
/4/

Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
poster
65
41
6.3
/849/
64
/74/
65
/102/
3.5
/17460/

No Chains, No Masters (2024)
1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.
poster
63
41
6.2
/353/
56
/11/
61
/20/
3.2
/2320/
76
/17/
63
/8/

Homecoming (2023)
Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
41
7.1
/648/
68
/22/
73
/15/
3.9
/2382/
78
/6/

Emitaï (1973)
As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
39
7.2
/1668/
67
/45/
68
/59/
3.8
/6980/
67
/5/

The Wagoner (1963)
A cart-taxi driver goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, he works for free and goes hungry himself.
poster
MUBI
63
37
6.2
/844/
63
/43/
60
/39/
3.5
/6088/

Atlantiques (2009)
The odyssey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing.
poster
Netflix
66
35
6.1
/1121/
65
/80/
74
/52/
3.1
/761/
67
/6/
69
/4/
cc age 14+

Citation (2020)
A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
poster
64
35
6.1
/372/
66
/21/
57
/38/
3.2
/298/
67
/9/
71

Amin (2018)
Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings are sent to Senegal. One day, he meets a woman, Gabrielle, and a relationship is born.
poster
72
33
7.2
/405/
60
/4/
66
/5/
3.6
/861/
78
/9/
81
/7/
81
/7/

Faat Kiné (2001)
A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
poster
Kanopy
68
31
7.3
/1007/
64
/25/
66
/25/
4.0
/4400/
58
/2/

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.
poster
73
26
6.9
/113/
75
/4/
66
/3/
3.3
/817/
90
/10/

Anywhere Anytime (2024)
Issa is a young undocumented immigrant, struggling to survive in a large city in Italy. Thanks to a friend who lends him his identity, he starts to work as a food courier. The precarious balance collapses when his bike is stolen. As he desperately searches for it, Issa is sucked into a dramatic spiral of events.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
20
5.9
/552/
55
/10/
45
/16/
3.3
/509/
64
/11/
57
/1/

Angel (2018)
Thierry, a world-famous cyclist, meets Fae, a sex worker, on his holiday in Senegal, and they sense in each other the love they seek. However, Thierry's career disgrace and Fae's refusal to register with the authorities threaten their dream.
poster
Kanopy
63
20
6.7
/376/
51
/8/
62
/9/
3.7
/1389/

Le Franc (1994)
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins...
poster
57
18
6.1
/390/
46
/8/
60
/7/
3.1
/1641/

Under the Volcano (2024)
A Ukrainian family is spending their final day of vacation in Tenerife, Spain when suddenly Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full-scale invasion. As their return to Kyiv becomes impossible, the tourists become refugees overnight.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
17
7.1
/214/
61
/8/
70
/8/
3.8
/1102/

A Thousand Suns (2013)
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
poster
The Roku Channel
54
13
4.9
/829/
45
/42/
51
/23/
3.1
/236/
67
/4/

Don't Read This on a Plane (2021)
As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
poster
60
11
6.6
/231/
50
/8/
57
/7/
3.5
/675/

Badou Boy (1970)
Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.
poster
60
10
6.8
/181/
45
/2/
60
/5/
3.5
/677/

Contras' City (1969)
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.
poster
69
10
7.1
/153/
67
/14/
66
/5/
3.6
/555/

Mossane (1996)
A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
poster
59
9
6.6
/92/
50
/4/
54
/5/
3.4
/703/

Africa on the Seine (1955)
This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,” it shows 1950s Paris from the cinematic perspective of a group of African immigrants. (Mubi)
poster
60
8
6.1
/234/
66
/9/
50
/11/
3.2
/235/

Staff Only (2019)
Marta, a 17-year-old girl, is on holiday in an African resort with her with her estranged dad and annoying little brother. Martha’s fascination for Khouma, a Senegalese cameraman who works filming the tourists' excursions, will add even more tension to her already troubled relationship with her father.
poster
?
6.5
/34/
80
/1/
58
/5/

Another Father (2025)
Thibaut, 40, raises his 7-year-old son, Gabriel, whom he adopted in Africa, alone. Faced with the crisis his son is going through, he decides to return with him to Senegal in search of the biological mother, Yawa, whom he once knew. But it's another broken bond that resurfaces during this journey and will lead Thibaut to mend his past love life and build a new family.
poster
?
7.1
/25/

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004)
In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.
poster
?
80
/1/

Ils étaient tirailleurs, voix oubliées de la Grande Guerre (2025)
N/A
poster
?
7.1
/15/
60
/1/

So Long a Letter (2025)
Ramatoulaye, a 50-year-old teacher, has been married to lawyer Modou Fall for 25 years. The couple is very close and happy. When her husband takes a second wife – her daughter's best friend – a struggle between tradition and modernity begins.
poster
?
7.1
/39/
55
/5/
60
/2/

Samedi Cinema (2016)
Two young Senegalese boys are determined to see one last film at the town movie theater before it closes forever. When they fall short of their goal, Baba’s loyalty to Sembene will be tested.
poster
?
6.8
/39/
65
/2/

Dem Dem! (2017)
Matar, a Senegalese fisherman, finds a Belgian passport on a beach in Dakar. On his way, he crosses paths with N'Zibou a crazy wise man who measures the clouds. He questions Matar about search for identity. One day, Matar disappears.
poster
?
70
/1/

Allacciate le cinture - Il viaggio di "Io Capitano" in Senegal (2025)
N/A
poster
?
70
/1/

Observer (2025)
Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking part in a playful, philosophical experiment.
poster
?
7.1
/16/
56
/3/

Timpi Tampa (2025)
After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss Students" pageant, where light skin reigns, to give dark-skinned girls a chance to shine.
poster
?
6.9
/12/
3.4
/266/

Don't Wake the Sleeping Child (2025)
Fifteen-year-old Diamant from Dakar dreams of making films, but her family has other plans for her. To Diamant, however, these are out of the question. She falls into a deep sleep from which no one can wake her.


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