ethiopia movies

Uncut Gems (2019)
7.149 / 10

Drama, Thriller, Crime

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall...

Shooter (2007)
7.113 / 10

Drama, Action, Thriller

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back...

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
6.837 / 10

Drama, Thriller, History

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

Difret (2014)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave...

Beyond Borders (2003)
6.446 / 10

Drama, Romance, Adventure, War

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a...

Shaft in Africa (1973)
6.1 / 10

Action, Crime

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Into the Inferno (2016)
6.9 / 10

Documentary

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Live and Become (2005)
7.474 / 10

Drama

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a...

The Best of Enemies (1961)
6.9 / 10

Comedy, War

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to...

Sweetness in the Belly (2019)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the...

The Imperial Lullaby (2020)
5.3 / 10

Documentary, History

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
6.8 / 10

Drama

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama...

Teza (2008)
7.7 / 10

Drama

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the...

Shepherds of the Earth (2022)
6 / 10

Documentary

The region of Lake Turkana, located in Kenya and Ethiopia, is considered to be “the Cradle of Humankind”. Among other finds, primate fossils from...

Negotiating Amnesia (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the...

The Other Side (2020)
0 / 10

Drama

Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.

IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

A short film documenting Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia's life as the leader of the Walias Band in the 1970, his immigration to the United States...

Running Movie (2011)
0 / 10

Documentary

Running Movie is a documentary film that focuses on Israeli long-distance runner Ayele Seteng (a.k.a. Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner to...

Walter Mittelholzer - Eine Schweizer Pioniergeschichte (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

A Walk to Beautiful (2007)
6.1 / 10

Documentary

"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and...