10 Best Movies from Ghana to Watch First

10 Essential Films from Ghana

Ranked native cinema in Ghana’s own creative voice.

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   1. Love Brewed in the African Pot

   1980

   In late-colonial Ghana, a privileged young woman defies her ambitious father by falling in love with a humble fisherman's son, and the couple's romance runs headlong into class and social expectation. A landmark of Ghanaian cinema.

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   2. The Boy Kumasenu

   1952

   Lured by his cousin's tall tales of city life, a boy leaves his fishing village for Accra, where hunger and hard choices soon test him. An early, pioneering film of the Gold Coast.

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   3. Heritage Africa

   1988

   A colonial-educated district commissioner in Ghana climbs the ranks by casting off his African identity and traditions, until the cost of what he has surrendered begins to dawn on him. Kwaw Ansah's acclaimed drama of colonialism and self-betrayal.

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   4. I Told You So

   1970

   A stubborn father refuses to bless his daughter's marriage to a wealthy suitor, sparking a family conflict over love, money, and pride in postcolonial Ghana. A popular comedy.

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   5. The Burial of Kojo

   2018

   After a man is trapped down a mine shaft by his vengeful brother, his young daughter embarks on a dreamlike journey to find and save him. A visually striking, magical-realist Ghanaian drama.

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   6. No Time To Die

   L'ultime hommage · 2006

   A Ghanaian hearse driver longs for a wife, but his profession scares women off — until he falls for a client whose father forbids the match. A gentle romantic comedy.

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   7. Keteke

   2017

   In 1980s rural Ghana, a heavily pregnant woman and her hapless husband miss the once-a-day train that is their only way to the city hospital, and set off on a chaotic overland journey to reach it in time. A warm, comic road movie.

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   8. Azali

   2018

   A fourteen-year-old girl sent away from northern Ghana to escape a forced marriage is instead seized by kidnappers and swept into the perils of Accra's streets, where she fights to survive. A hard-hitting social drama.

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   9. An African Election

   2011

   This documentary goes behind the scenes of Ghana's tense 2008 presidential election, capturing the campaigning, drama, and fragile democracy of a nation watched as a bellwether for the continent.

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    10. The Witches of Gambaga

    2011

    This documentary reveals the plight of women in northern Ghana accused of witchcraft and banished to live out their days in a so-called witch camp, and the activists working to free them. A sobering exposé.