rwanda movies

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
7.716 / 10

Drama, History, War

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly...

Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
6.967 / 10

Drama, History

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Banged Up (2003)
2 / 10

Drama, Action

A teenager is rescued from war-torn Rwanda and brought to the United States. He Struggles to fit in but has little luck till he meets a has been...

Sometimes in April (2005)
7.121 / 10

Drama, History, War

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Opération Turquoise (2007)
7 / 10

War, Drama

Kinyarwanda (2011)
6 / 10

Drama, Romance

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amid chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a...

A Sunday in Kigali (2006)
7.1 / 10

Drama

In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the...

Mountain Gorilla (1992)
7 / 10

Documentary

Mountain Gorilla takes us to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful...

Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017)
5.5 / 10

Drama

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save...

Rwanda & Juliet (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary, Comedy

A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric...

Munyurangabo (2008)
6.7 / 10

Drama

An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.

The War Against Women (2013)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous...

Kisangani Diary (1998)
7.5 / 10

Documentary

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost”...

God Sleeps in Rwanda (2005)
8 / 10

Documentary

A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in...

Rwanda : the silence of words (2022)
8 / 10

Documentary

Their words had never been heard before. Co-directed by French-Rwandan musician and author Gaël Faye and director Michael Sztanke, this movie...

Earth Made of Glass (2011)
4.5 / 10

Documentary

Chronicling the search for truth and peace in post-genocide Rwanda. Director Deborah Scranton explores issues of peace, retribution, accountability...

Lions Unleashed (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary

In Rwanda, Africa, a new era is dawning after a brutal civil war ripped through the country, killing close to two million people and wiping out its...

Hutsi (1969)
0 / 10

Animation, Drama

The story is afterimage of the genocide that happened in Rwanda almost 30 years ago. We’ve assembled an incredible team of individuals, each with...

Mama Rwanda (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary

MAMA RWANDA is the story of two women mixing the wit of motherhood with the spirit of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty. Drocella, a...

Long Coat (2009)
0 / 10

Drama

Following the story of a genocide survivor as well as son of a killer, the film revolves around the meaning of an old coat and its symbolic value for...