5 Best Movies Set in or About Mozambique

5 Movies Set in or About Mozambique

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

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   1. Mosquito

   2020

   Dreaming of glory, a young Portuguese soldier ships out in World War I to the front in colonial Mozambique, but fever and the chaos of war leave him separated from his platoon and struggling alone across the African wilderness. A vivid survival drama.

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   2. Night Lodgers

   Hóspedes da Noite · 2007

   This documentary explores the once-grand Grande Hotel of Beira — a colonial-era luxury landmark now a crumbling ruin without power or water, home to thousands of squatters who have built a community in its shell. A haunting portrait.

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   3. Light Drops

   O Gotejar da Luz · 2002

   A boy growing up in a remote frontier village in colonial Mozambique, the son of Portuguese settlers, shares a close bond with a local girl — until the violence of the independence war shatters his world. A tender, elegiac drama.

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   4. The Murmuring Coast

   A Costa dos Murmúrios · 2004

   In the final years of Portuguese rule in Mozambique, a young woman newly arrived to marry a soldier slowly awakens to the brutality of the colonial war unfolding around her. Margarida Cardoso's atmospheric drama.

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   5. Mozambique

   1965

   An American pilot down on his luck is hired for a job that plunges him into a web of drug and gun smuggling and intrigue across colonial Mozambique and Zanzibar. A vintage adventure thriller.