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1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 528,665 | Gross: $206.46M
2. Tarzan (1999)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
Directors: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima | Stars: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Glenn Close
Votes: 246,880 | Gross: $171.09M
3. Beast (I) (2022)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi
Votes: 40,594 | Gross: $31.85M
4. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,256 | Gross: $87.10M
5. Zoo (2015–2017)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A team comes together and searches to find out what's causing a rash of violent animal attacks.
Stars: James Wolk, Kristen Connolly, Nonso Anozie, Billy Burke
Votes: 26,049
6. 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: 48,619 | Gross: $81.02M
7. The Bucket List (2007)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd
Votes: 259,669 | Gross: $93.47M
8. The Meaning of Life (1983)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 125,252 | Gross: $14.93M
9. Hatari! (1962)
Approved | 157 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons
Votes: 14,226 | Gross: $14.00M
10. Death to Smoochy (2002)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A kids' show host, Rainbow Randolph, is fired in disgrace while his replacement, Sheldon Mopes, A.K.A. Smoochy the Rhino, finds himself a rising star. Unfortunately for Sheldon, the business of kids' television isn't all child's play.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito
Votes: 42,590 | Gross: $8.36M
11. King Solomon's Mines (1985)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 14,899 | Gross: $15.06M
12. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 5,569
13. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden
Votes: 13,202 | Gross: $2.32M
14. Mountains of the Moon (1990)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw
Votes: 4,248 | Gross: $4.01M
15. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras
Votes: 5,900
16. Mogambo (1953)
Passed | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Donald Sinden
Votes: 9,169
17. King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Passed | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Votes: 7,005
18. A Sound of Thunder (2005)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Armin Rohde
Votes: 20,495 | Gross: $1.89M
19. The Lost World (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains
Votes: 4,452
20. Prey (I) (2007)
TV-MA | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions.
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Carly Schroeder, Jamie Bartlett
Votes: 8,639
21. The Wild Thornberrys (2002)
PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After losing a cheetah cub to ruthless poachers, Eliza must redeem her folly and go on a quest to save him.
Directors: Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath | Stars: Tim Curry, Rupert Everett, Flea, Lacey Chabert
Votes: 15,254 | Gross: $40.11M
22. The Naked Prey (1965)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt
Votes: 5,871
23. Holiday in the Wild (2019)
TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jilted by her husband on the eve of embarking on an African safari, a woman travels to the continent solo and meets an elephant conservationist.
Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Fezile Mpela, John Owen Lowe
Votes: 17,267
24. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Unrated | 193 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Votes: 6,351 | Gross: $0.03M
25. Endangered Species (2021)
R | 101 min | Action, Thriller
Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Rebecca Romijn, Philip Winchester, Isabel Bassett, Michael Johnston
Votes: 2,647
26. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 5,896 | Gross: $18.05M
27. Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Mr. Joseph Young
Votes: 5,772
28. Ten Little Indians (1989)
PG | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Director: Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,539
29. The Lion King (1997)
TV-G | Musical
Disney's #1 hit musical, based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature film of the same name.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Tsidii Leloka, John Vickery, Geoff Hoyle, Samuel E. Wright
Votes: 98
30. The Rezort (2015)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The ReZort, a safari park, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill as many zombies as they please following an outbreak.
Director: Steve Barker | Stars: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann, Claire Goose
Votes: 9,804
31. Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter
Votes: 3,622 | Gross: $2.27M
32. The Last Samurai (1990)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Following the trail of a samurai ancestor, two Japanese businessmen on a quest for spiritual fulfillment arrive in Africa with a group of tourists, only to get kidnapped by the local guerrilla leader. A tough mercenary must rescue them.
Director: Paul Mayersberg | Stars: John Fujioka, Lance Henriksen, Arabella Holzbog, James Ryan
Votes: 310
33. The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert
Votes: 1,131
34. Intervista (1987)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori
Votes: 3,178 | Gross: $0.11M
35. Trader Horn (1931)
Passed | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Votes: 1,118
36. Recep Ivedik 6 (2019)
110 min | Comedy
Surprisingly Recep founds himself in Kenya instead of Konya (an Anatolian city of Turkey) and the adventure begins.
Director: Togan Gökbakar | Stars: Sahan Gökbakar, Nurullah Celebi, Somer Karvan, Chidi Benjamin John
Votes: 8,997
37. Heatstroke (2013)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Thriller
An accidental detour during a vacation in the African desert pits a research scientist and his family against a group of dangerous arms dealers.
Director: Evelyn Purcell | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Svetlana Metkina, Maisie Williams, Peter Stormare
Votes: 3,361
38. Tropical Heat (1993)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An American wife (Maryam d'Abo) of a maharajah inherits five-million dollars after he is stepped on by an elephant during a leopard hunt, but the American insurance company suspects fraud ... See full summary »
Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Rick Rossovich, Maryam d'Abo, Lee Anne Beaman, Ashaa Siewkumar
Votes: 339
39. Africa Express (1975)
98 min | Adventure
A goods trader in southern Africa aids a mysterious nun escape the clutches of a dangerous ivory and animal trafficker.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Ursula Andress, Jack Palance, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 432
40. The Flame Trees of Thika (1981– )
Not Rated | 50 min | Biography, Drama
Elspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible ... See full summary »
Stars: Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Mick Chege
Votes: 453
41. Something of Value (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, War
In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 1,304
42. 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: 4,054
43. Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.
Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner
Votes: 1,364
44. White Lion (2010)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Family
A young African boy named Gisani finds himself destined to protect a rare and magnificent white lion cub named Letsatsi who is cast from his pride and is forced to survive on his own.
Director: Michael Swan | Stars: Jamie Bartlett, John Kani, Thabo Malema, A.J. van der Merwe
Votes: 1,039
45. Call Me Bwana (1963)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 878
46. Safari (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary
A thought-provoking look on how white hunting tourists go to Afrika in search of excitement in killing wild animals, their backward views on humanity and the monetary reality behind this industry
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Inge Ellinger, Marita Neemann, Markolf Schmidt, Tina Hofmann
Votes: 1,256
47. Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)
Passed | 167 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation has made herself at home in Africa as the elephant-riding, vine-swinging, miniskirted 'Panther Girl.' On safari to film animals, Jean ... See full summary »
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space, John Daheim
Votes: 184
48. Safari (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver
Votes: 666
49. The Woman Eater (1958)
Not Rated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: George Coulouris, Vera Day, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Joyce Gregg
Votes: 664
50. The Macomber Affair (1947)
Approved | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny
Votes: 928