4 Best Movies Set in or About Madagascar

4 Movies Set in or About Madagascar

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Madagascar.

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   1. Madagascar

   2005

   Four pampered animals from the Central Park Zoo — a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo — accidentally end up shipwrecked on the wild island of Madagascar, where they must survive in a nature none of them is prepared for. DreamWorks' zany animated comedy.

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   2. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar

   2014

   Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this large-format nature documentary follows a scientist's work among the extraordinary, endangered lemurs of Madagascar, the only place on earth they survive. A dazzling wildlife film.

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   3. Against All Flags

   1952

   In the 18th century, a British naval officer goes undercover among the ruthless pirates who rule a fortress stronghold off Madagascar, aiming to bring them down — and finding romance with a fiery female buccaneer. A swashbuckling adventure.

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   4. Red Island

   L'Île rouge · 2023

   On a French air base in Madagascar at the twilight of the colonial era, a young boy given to comic-book fantasies watches the adults' carefree world through his own eyes as the era's illusions quietly crumble. Robin Campillo's evocative memory piece.