Best African science fiction movies

Taking Earth (2017)

The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.

Pumzi (2009)

A sci-fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, 'The Water War'.

Tears in the Rain (2017)

In a dystopian Los Angeles future, retirement engineer John Kampff hunts down suspected Replicant Andy Smith. As John soon learns, Replicant detection is nearly impossible without specialist equipment.

Tears in the Rain (2017)

Set in Los Angeles in the latter part of the twenty-first century, John Kampff, a mysterious law enforcement official is tracking down a man named Andy Smith, who is suspected of being a replicant: an artificial being almost indistinguishable from humans. With its haunting, 80s-inspired synthesized score, futuristic Los Angeles cityscape complete with flying cars, looming ultra-skyscrapers, and neon-haloed, grime-covered streets, Tears In The Rain convincingly duplicates the dark dystopian aesthetic of Blade Runner.

The Day They Came (2013)

Science Fiction short from Nigeria.

Homecoming (2013)

Kenyan Jim Chuchu’s short film casts a voyeur’s obsession with the girl next door, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, science fiction and fiction.

Time Conqueror (1987)

Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry is able to get into Dr. Halim's remote house in Helwan , to discover that he is conducting experiments to freeze humans to preserve them.

Survival Zone (1983)

In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne'er do well marauders who want to eat the men and mate with the women. Having already killed and eaten an entire mission full of nuns, the family has no choice but to grab their rifles and defend their homestead. Meanwhile, the lonely, nubile daughter begins to have feelings for the buff blond stranger with no family who has wandered onto the property. It's romance, intrigue, action, and violence on the dark continent!

B14? (2012)

Rival gangs fight over a cocaine shipment. One of the gangs, led by a ruthless woman named Lan Di, has a superhumanly powered assassin named Scorpion at her disposal.

Timothee (2021)

Timothee is a story of a humanoid boy trying to navigate life in the northern part of Nigeria as he finds himself in a series of misfortunate events that come as a result of his past.

Still Born (2017)

Thousands of years in the future, a laborer whose job is to recover artifacts of the past tries to free herself from a dystopian caste system.

Journey to the Moon (1959)

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German rocket undergoing a technical test. He accidentally launches the rocket into space, taking with him Dr Sharvin, the German scientist who built the rocket, and Ahmad Rushdi, an Egyptian meteorologist. When their rocket somehow manages to land upon the moon, the three hapless space travelers meet Dr Cosmo and learn of the intelligent life that once inhabited the moon but which was all but annihilated by a nuclear war. After Rushdi falls in love with one of the moon girls, they all decide to return to earth but lack enough fuel for the trip and so have to venture to the foreboding far side of the moon to obtain some 'atomic petrol.' Will the crew ever return to the earth?

Day of Destiny (2021)

The thrilling adventure of Chidi and Rotimi, teenagers who get a magical chance to travel back in time and change their broke parents' past.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025)

Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.

Alien Attack (1998)

The 25th planet of the Cyrus Solar System, Vega is in danger, the 800yrs old Queen Mother is dying, afflicted by a disease we know as brain cancer. She has but a short time to live unless the part affected can be replaced. A select group of Aliens have been sent to earth to capture and bring back the part Affected-Medulla to be replaced and transplanted to the Queen Mother. It has taken them 4,5 light years to get here, now they have finally arrived.

Hell Below Water (1989)

After Hassan and Hala split up, each moves on with their life as Hala marries a corrupt elderly businessman and Hassan loses his wife in a diving accident. Hala and Hassan reunite after many years apart in a dangerous situation that reignites their love story.

Journey to the Moon (1959)

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German rocket undergoing a technical test. He accidentally launches the rocket into space, taking with him Dr Sharvin, a German scientist.

المجانين الثلاثة (1970)

(Tawfik) a veterinarian, decides to leave his work at the Ministry of Health in order to devote himself completely to conducting experiments in his laboratory at his home, but what he does doesn’t please his wife at all and complains to her sister about what her husband is doing, but the matter completely changes when one of Tawfik’s experiments succeeds and gets press coverage But when he performs a new experiment on his sister-in-law's fiancé after the success of the experiment on goats, an unexpected problem arises.

H-3 (1961)

When a doctor invents a formula that can restore youth, the 80-year-old Abbas takes the new formula and starts a new adventurous chapter as a young man. But reliving his youth comes at the expense of his family as he falls in love with his son's fiancée and decides to marry her.

Hekaya Laha El Agab (1990)

Mahmoud decides to find a better way to get money so he quits his job which results in creating problems with his wife. His greed blinds him until he loses himself.

Where Did You Get This (1952)

The story revolves around Wahid, a medical student, who lives with a scientist who invented a chemical compound that makes him invisible. The fact that Taher human being normal and straight in his life as it is clear, Wahid exploits this chemical powder to reach his beloved Salwa.

The Three Madmen (1970)

Abul Eyoun Garia (1958)

German brain surgeon von Robin Stop will perform the most serious surgery, a replacement of human brain to another human brain, buys from the gang an Egyptian woman and then the first operation in Egypt is to replace her brain with the brain of his wife flirt, we see the wise woman has turned into a playful foreign lady, and see his wife She has turned into an honest lady.

Adam and Women (1971)

In the wake of an atomic disaster, the entire male population of the Earth has been rendered sterile, except for a young man named Adam who was deep below the planet's surface in an iron mine at the time of the accident. This hapless nonentity suddenly finds himself feted as humanity's savior, exhibited to international teams of scientists, and instructed to leave his wife and instead join his new harem of beauty contest winners; until, that is, the fateful day when other males start to regain their potency and Adam is no longer 'special'. This satirical sci-fi movie is of interest not merely for its candid approach to sex and sexuality, but also because it's an unauthorized adaptation of Pat Frank's 1946 novel “Mr. Adam”.