Best award winning movies with smart writing from Nigeria
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with smart writing from Nigeria! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with smart writing from Nigeria, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Juju Stories (2021)
Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In Yam, by Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly random money from the roadside. In Suffer the Witch, by Obasi, love and friendship turns into obsession, when a young college woman attracts her crush's interest.
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- 2021-08-12 | Horror / Drama
Cast
- Belinda Yanga-Agedah, Paul Utomi
Rating
5.4
2 King of Boys (2018)
The story of Alhaja Eniola Salami, a businesswoman and philanthropist with a checkered past and a promising political future. As her political ambitions see her outgrowing the underworld connections responsible for her considerable wealth, she's drawn into a power struggle that threatens everything she holds dear.
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- 2018-10-26 | Drama
Cast
- Sola Sobowale, Remilekun Reminisce Safaru
Rating
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6.3
3 October 1 (2014)
Its September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, Dan Waziri, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed. Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other...
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- 2014-10-01 | Thriller
Cast
- Sadiq Daba, Kehinde Bankole
Rating
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6.0
4 93 Days (2016)
Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
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- 2016-04-24 | Drama
Cast
- Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover
Rating
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5.9
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5 Fifty (2015)
Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate are four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos.
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- 2015-10-17 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Ireti Doyle, Dakore Egbuson-Akande
Rating
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5.1
6 Lionheart (2018)
In order to save her father's ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.
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- 2018-09-08 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Genevieve Nnaji, Nkem Owoh
Rating
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6.1
7 House of Money (2022)
Busola has forever been unlucky with love. Pressured by society and her parents to tie the knot as a means to lift her family out of poverty, she finally meets Tunji – the perfect man. At first, Busola struggles to understand why a billionaire would choose to marry her, but after she accepts his proposal of marriage, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead her to a truth she could never have imagined.
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- 2022-06-24 | Thriller
Cast
- Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori, Ademola Adedoyin
Rating
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0.0
8 Òlòtūré (2019)
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
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- 2019-10-31 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Ada Ameh, Beverly Osu
Rating
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6.2
9 The Set Up (2019)
A young woman gets more than she bargains for and is drawn into a web of deceit when she is hired by a socialite to assist with his scheme to marry a wealthy heiress.
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- 2019-08-09 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Jim Iyke
Rating
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4.4
10 This Lady Called Life (2020)
Becoming a chef is Aiye’s greatest desire. But. She is a young, struggling, single mother who has been abandoned by her family. To settle for defeat, or to fight against all odds to become the chef of her dreams? That is the question.
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- 2020-05-15 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Bisola Aiyeola, Efa Iwara
Rating
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0.0
