Best African romance movies
A curated collection of popular romance movies from Africa.
Girl From Nowhere (2017)
Girl From Nowhere (2017)
A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza is invited for lunch, but soon the couple can't get rid of her.
A Few Hours in One Day (2024)
A Few Hours in One Day (2024)
Yassin (Hisham Magdy) and Sara (Hana El Zahid) meet and find themselves in romantic, comedic situations. Omnia (Mai Omar) and Tarek (Ahmed Saadany), the most famous couple on social media, share with us their real story. Amal (Asmaa Galal) and Mohamed (Mohamed Sharnoubi) discover the betrayal of the love of his life. Yasra (Huda El Mufti) embarks on a crazy adventure against her fiancé (Mohamed Salam). What will these hours do in the lives of our heroes?
Unruly Friends (2012)
Unruly Friends (2012)
A girl's turbulent past leaves her psychologically damaged.
Semi-Soet (2012)
Semi-Soet (2012)
Jaci van Jaarsveld will do everything in her power to stop the advertising company where she works to be taken over by a ruthless businessman known as 'The Jackal'. Her only hope for a big contract to save their company is a wine estate that markets wines to international markets. Easier said than done, especially if the winegrower requires the person to promote his wine to be in an established relationship. In desperation Jaci decided to hire a model pretending to be her fiance. She took the first attractive man walking through their offices send by the modeling agency. Everything seems to be going smooth with the meeting with the winegrower until he invites Jaci and her fiance to visit the winery for the weekend and to compete against their opposition for the contract. And who is the opposition? Jaci's ex-fiance, Mark Rossouw. Just when Jaci think she’s in full control she realized that her ‘fiance’, JP, is the very 'Jackal' who tried to sink their company.
The Blazing Sun (1954)
The Blazing Sun (1954)
A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Happiness Ever After (2021)
Umjolo: Day Ones (2024)
El Hawa Sultan (2024)
El Hawa Sultan (2024)
Sara and Ali have been close friends since childhood, and together, they face many different situations and problems with their friends and families, but some changes suddenly occur in their relationship.
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (2018)
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (2018)
A disillusioned London chef visits Nigeria and struggles with her matchmaking mother and restoring the family's rundown hotel. She's heartbroken when she discovers the man she loves is buying it.
A Royal Surprise (2022)
Omar & Salma 3 (2012)
Omar & Salma 3 (2012)
Omar and Salma learn that their daughters have been kidnapped by a mafia cell based in South Africa compelling the pair to undergo a series of adventures in that part of the world.
About Love and Passion (2006)
About Love and Passion (2006)
Omar and Alia are in love and decide to get married , but Omar discovers that her sister Fatima is infamous who works in a bar so he walks away from her, and marries Kismat , while Alia marries her childhood neighbor, but they do not find happiness and events escalate.
Sweet Oblivion (1996)
Sweet Oblivion (1996)
Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.
Okal (2004)
Okal (2004)
(Okal) is devastated when his ex fiancee is married to a rich man. After getting drunk,he finds himself in a coffin heading to Turkey. The mayor of Egyptians take him in and he falls in love with his daughter.
I Adore You (2015)
I Adore You (2015)
Dr. Sherif who works as a plastic surgeon, gets to know a young lady whom he falls in love with. But when he is introduced to her single mum he falls in love with her instead. Trying his best ways to get her attention.
Mossie (2016)
Mossie (2016)
I am Luna van Wyk. A 14 year old girl. This is the story of Mignon "Mossie" Van Wyk, my older sister. Oh and her best friend Adriaan Prinsloo, who I think she should marry. But that's just me. For some weird reason Mossie falls in love with older guys - enter Leon Rossouw - obviously without a shirt. This is a story about love, naturally, but it's more about being a teenager and how rough life can be. It's a story about monsters and running shoes. About letting go and holding on. About friendship. It's a story about my sister and how she learns to fly.
Bahebek (2022)
Bibo and Beshir (2011)
Bibo and Beshir (2011)
Limited by choices and eager for independence, a drummer and a basketball coach simultaneously agree to sign tenancy agreements with fishy terms. They meet by chance and fall in love without knowing they live in the same place.
Big Love (2023)
Big Love (2023)
A romantic drama, Big Love explores the eruption of love between Adil, a young and passionate man chasing his dreams and Adina, a focused and independent woman making ends meet at a graduate training camp.
Soft Love (2024)
Soft Love (2024)
After being jilted on her wedding day, South African online relationship specialist, Zandi Jele, loses faith in love. However, when Nigerian photographer, Edward, crashes into Zandi's life, he fans her dying flames for love back to life.
Have We Met Before (2008)
Have We Met Before (2008)
Sara's wife Nelly Karim reveals her husband's betrayal of Amr Mamdouh and leaves her for her friend Dalia Caroline Khalil, who is in crisis with her boyfriend Akram Mohammed Sulaiman. Sara enters new worlds where she meets Hisham. Saxophone player as well as Abdellatif "Hassan Hosni" fashion designer Will Sarah respond to the betrayal of her husband ... And do you overcome Dalia crisis?
Captain Hima (2008)
Captain Hima (2008)
University graduate works as a school bus driver after failing to find a proper job, where he unexpectedly falls in love with a school teacher, who is the love interest of an evil businessman. Of course you don’t already know that she will be loving the "King of Generation", after all, who wouldn’t?
My Bride (2021)
My Bride (2021)
The story follows a young man and woman who go through various situations in their journey to find the right partner, which raises questions about traditional marriage and marriage based on love.
6 Days (2025)
6 Days (2025)
Youssef and Alia, who were separated in their teenage years as a result of oppressive circumstances, before fate brought them together again after years of separation, and each of them took a different path in their lives.
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better (1998)
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better (1998)
Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman
A Sunday Affair (2023)
A Sunday Affair (2023)
Two best friends, Uche and Toyin, fall in love with Sunday, a charming, yet flawed eligible bachelor. A love triangle ensues with the women unaware that they are dating the same man.
Factory Girl (2014)
Factory Girl (2014)
Hiyam, a young factory worker, lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, along with her co-workers. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor. Believing that love can transcend their class differences, Hiyam relentlessly pursues a dream of the pair being together. However, when a pregnancy test is discovered in the factory premises, her immediate family and close friends accuse her of sinning. Hiyam decides not to defend herself and pays an enormous price in a society that fails to accept her.
Love, Sex and 30 Candles (2023)
The Pro (2015)
The Pro (2015)
The Pro tells the story of a young surfer, Tiaan Nothnagel that has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Dirkie Lawrence just before their last year at school.After Dirkie’s death, Tiaan swears off surfing for good, as he can’t stand to be reminded of everything that he and Dirkie shared. But then, Dirkie’s twin sister (who went to live with their dad after their parents split up the previous year) arrives in town on a mission: to be selected to go on Wave-Seekers, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Tiaan and Dirkie dreamt of doing.
The Bitter Orange (2007)
The Bitter Orange (2007)
Souadia's monotonous life changes after an encounter with a police officer (Amin) next to an orange tree