5 Best Movies Set in or About Senegal

5 Movies Set in or About Senegal

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

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   1. Coup de Torchon

   1981

   In a French colonial town in 1930s Africa, a spineless, much-abused police chief snaps and decides to remake his life by quietly murdering those who torment him. Bertrand Tavernier's blackly comic drama, transposed from a Jim Thompson noir.

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   2. Ramata

   2009

   A powerful, aging Senegalese woman of great beauty and privilege becomes consumed by a destructive passion for a much younger man, unraveling her carefully composed life. A sensual drama.

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   3. Toubab

   2021

   Fresh out of prison and eager for a new start with his best friend, a young German-Senegalese man faces deportation, and the pair concoct a wild scheme — a fake marriage — to keep him in the country. A warm, irreverent buddy comedy.

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   4. Black

   2008

   A French-born Senegalese bank robber recovering from a botched heist is lured to Dakar by his cousin for an easy score, only to plunge into a violent, surreal world of gangsters and voodoo. A pulpy, stylish action thriller.

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   5. Duel in Dakar

   Duel à Dakar · 1951

   A secret-service agent is sent to Dakar to smash a gang scheming to steal the plans for a new aircraft, and when they kidnap his fiancée the mission turns personal. A vintage adventure thriller.