Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "congo"

1. Big Fish (2003)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange

Votes: 459,568 | Gross: $66.26M

2. The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens, Christoph Waltz

Votes: 189,102 | Gross: $126.64M

3. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 372,864 | Gross: $23.53M

4. Congo (1995)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson

Votes: 48,793 | Gross: $81.02M

5. The Good Shepherd (2006)

R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 108,703 | Gross: $59.95M

6. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán

Votes: 104,892 | Gross: $16.78M

7. The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

TV-MA | 108 min | Action, Drama, History

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

Director: Richie Smyth | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mark Strong, Mikael Persbrandt

Votes: 44,521

8. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.

Directors: Hideo Kojima, Junji Tago | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robin Atkin Downes, Troy Baker, Stefanie Joosten

Votes: 8,570

9. The Nun's Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Drama

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Votes: 11,752 | Gross: $12.80M

10. Farewell, Friend (1968)

M/PG | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After an overseas deployment, two former French Foreign Legion members plan to break into the vault of a French corporation.

Director: Jean Herman | Stars: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Brigitte Fossey, Olga Georges-Picot

Votes: 4,107

11. Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014 Video)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

Tom Sizemore stars in the most explosive Behind Enemy Lines yet! Seal Team 8 must fight their way through the Congo to defuse one of the greatest threats the world has ever known.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Lex Shrapnel, Anthony Oseyemi, Michael Everson

Votes: 3,088

12. Dark of the Sun (1968)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Jim Brown

Votes: 3,552

13. Virunga (2014)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, War

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel | Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby, Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo

Votes: 12,275

14. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.

Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo

Votes: 5,627

15. The Seven Red Berets (1969)

90 min | Action, Drama

Seven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Ivan Rassimov, Sieghardt Rupp, Kirk Morris, Pamela Tudor

Votes: 99

16. Bwana Devil (1952)

Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

Directors: Arch Oboler, Robert Clampett | Stars: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill

Votes: 425

17. The Congo Murders (2018)

122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache.

Director: Marius Holst | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Tobias Santelmann, Ine F. Jansen, Anthony Oseyemi

Votes: 1,829

18. The Dinosaur Project (2012)

PG-13 | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A British expedition formed by the lead researcher Jonathan Marchant, his assistant, a doctor and a TV crew, travels to Congo to seek evidence of a dinosaur.

Director: Sid Bennett | Stars: Richard Dillane, Peter Brooke, Matt Kane, Natasha Loring

Votes: 5,861

19. Africa Screams (1949)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck

Votes: 4,070

20. More Than I Want to Remember (2022)

14 min | Animation, Short

One night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself ... See full summary »

Director: Amy Bench | Star: Mugeni Ornella

Votes: 246

21. Down River (2018)

70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand

Votes: 592

22. The Last Adventure (1967)

M | 112 min | Adventure, Drama

Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.

Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani

Votes: 3,876

23. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, History

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »

Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant

Votes: 2,795 | Gross: $0.09M

24. Fight Like a Girl (2024)

Drama, Sport

A young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine, escapes her captors and finds a new life for herself as a professional boxer. Based on true events.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Ama Qamata, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Malaika Uwamahoro, Bahali Ruth

25. Little Eggs: An African Rescue (2021)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.

Directors: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste | Stars: Bruno Bichir, Maite Perroni, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale

Votes: 312

26. The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Romance

While the Nazi regime subjugates European nations during World War II, in the Belgian Congo nurse Rachel Cade tries to cure the local people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but an injured young American pilot upsets his plans.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John

Votes: 607

27. Sara's Notebook (2018)

TV-MA | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A Spanish woman travels to darkest heart of Africa looking for her long-time missed younger sister.

Director: Norberto López Amado | Stars: Belén Rueda, Marian Álvarez, Iván Mendes, Manolo Cardona

Votes: 2,897

28. Unwatchable (2011)

6 min | Short, Drama, War

The rape of a family in the rural idyll of England. Reconstruction of a true story that took place in the Congo.

Director: Marc Hawker | Stars: James Alexander, Jack Bannell, Angela Dixon, Pete Garrett

Votes: 75

29. Lumumba (2000)

Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto

Votes: 2,083 | Gross: $0.68M

30. The Birds and the Bees (1956)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 250

31. Parole de flic (1985)

98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Retired police officer Daniel Pratt's teenage daughter is killed by a gang of hooded men. Pratt begins his own investigation to find the killers and who ordered them to do it - and take personal revenge out of the judicial system.

Director: José Pinheiro | Stars: Alain Delon, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin, Éva Darlan

Votes: 1,253

32. Reporter (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

Journalist Nicholas Kristof travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the growing humanitarian crisis.

Director: Eric Daniel Metzgar | Stars: Eric Daniel Metzgar, Nicholas Kristof, Samantha Power, Gail Collins

Votes: 117

33. Nature (2011 Video)

Not Rated | 87 min | Thriller

Nature is an erotic suspense drama about a young couple, Roger and Eva on a quest to rediscover their sexual fervor. After a failed experiment with role-playing games, they decide to take a... See full summary »

Director: Jeff Pickett | Stars: Lyudmila Shiryaeva, Ryan Harper Gray, Jeff Pickett, Lizzy Davis

Votes: 206

34. This is Congo (2017)

TV-MA | 93 min | Documentary, History, War

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

Director: Daniel McCabe

Votes: 347 | Gross: $0.00M

35. White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2003 TV Movie)

84 min | Documentary, History

Documentary about how King Leopold II of Belgium acquired Congo as a colony and exploited it by reign of terror.

Director: Peter Bate | Stars: Elie Lison, Roger May, Steve Driesen, Tshilombo Imhotep

Votes: 211

36. White Witch Doctor (1953)

Passed | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak, Mashood Ajala

Votes: 763

37. Diamonds (2009 TV Movie)

240 min | Drama

A complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business, wrapped around a murder of a United States Senator's daughter.

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: James Purefoy, Judy Davis, Derek Jacobi, Joanne Kelly

Votes: 265

38. Black Jesus (1968)

GP | 89 min | Drama

Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi

Votes: 327 | Gross: $0.33M

39. The Secret Spring (1923)

Passed | 180 min | Romance, War

Grand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Rudolph prepares to leave for the Congo but he is murdered by his brother. Aurora goes to Paris be with her ... See full summary »

Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Karl Heyl, Huguette Duflos, Henry Houry, Julio de Romero

Votes: 24

40. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (1999 Video)

88 min | Adventure, War

Africa, December 1916. Despite disobeying orders, Indy is promoted to Captain after capturing a German machine gun. He is then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Major Boucher to ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, Bryan Pringle, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 537

41. Through the Path of Darkness (2019)

Short, Adventure

In search of glory, Portuguese Major Afonso Ferreira sees himself consumed in the deepest darkness of the Congo.

Directors: Duarte Gandum, Henrique Gandum | Stars: Pedro Lima, Raul Muta, Miguel Valle, Pedro Wallenstein

Votes: 11

42. Operation Leopard (1980)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In 1978, a group of heavily armed rebels from Katanga attacked the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire and started killing the civilians among whom many Europeans. France sent the legion to evacuate the civilian population.

Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Perrin, Laurent Malet, Pierre Vaneck

Votes: 401

43. Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)

91 min | Adventure

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Mala Powers, Marshall Thompson, James Lanphier, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 178

44. Makala (2017)

96 min | Documentary

Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

Director: Emmanuel Gras | Stars: Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo

Votes: 774

45. Benda Bilili! (2010)

PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary, Music

Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.

Directors: Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye | Stars: Leon Likabu, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Cubain Kabeya

Votes: 825

46. Rwanda: The Untold Story (2014)

59 min | Documentary

Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current ... See full summary »

Director: John Conroy | Stars: Howard Adelman, Kofi Annan, Marie Bamutese, Tony Blair

Votes: 29

47. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)

54 min | Documentary, History, Music

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: H. Rap Brown, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon

Votes: 936

48. Fury of the Congo (1951)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 307

49. The Greatest Battle Lies Within (2020)

Documentary, Short

A Congolese-Australian playwright details how escaping death and subsequent migration led to the creation of a wildly successful play, novel and screenplay.

Director: Connor Price | Stars: Future D. Fidel, Pacharo Mzembe, Gideon Mzembe, Todd MacDonald

50. Bonobos: Back to the Wild (2011)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

The critically important work by renowned naturalist Claudine Andre to save the endangered bonobo apes of the Congo is presented in this visually stunning feature film.

Director: Alain Tixier | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans, Claudine André, Sandrine Bonnaire

Votes: 203 | Gross: $0.11M