Johnny Sekka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 14, 2006
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Woman of Straw
Overview: Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-28
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The Message
Overview: In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Khartoum
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Blood Suckers
Overview: A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders have taken place. Not believing that their friend could be the perpetrator of such acts, they press on with their search, finding him under the spell of a beautiful Vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of sado-masochism. Believing they have killed her, the group return home, unaware that their friend is now a Vampire.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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The Last Safari
Overview: A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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The Wild and the Willing
Overview: Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-16
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A Warm December
Overview: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Flame in the Streets
Overview: Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-19
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East of Sudan
Overview: A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-16
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Visit to a Chief's Son
Overview: An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-15
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Hanky Panky
Overview: Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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The Gifted
Overview: Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Ashanti
Overview: Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-21
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Passion and Paradise
Overview: Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before World War II.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-19
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Uptown Saturday Night
Overview: Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-26
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The Southern Star
Overview: Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-04
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Things Fall Apart
Overview: When Obi Okonkwo completes his studies in England and returns to Nigeria, he finds himself in a country marked by rapid industrialisation and deep political change. In a time of social upheaval, Obi represents modern Nigeria. Through his gaze, his own expectations, those of his environment and the woman he loves become visible. And the disappointment of these expectations. Obi experiences the spreading corruption, the dominance of the Europeans and the conflicts with the values of traditional societies. In flashbacks, his struggle is interwoven with that of his grandfather Okonkwo. The latter experiences the first foreign influences in his village of Umuofia, from the arrival of the Christian missionaries to British colonialism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Reou-Takh
Overview: Arguably the first African film made that engages the topic of slavery. African film pioneer Mahama Traore (more commonly referred to as Johnson), offers an uncompromising narrative that seeks to address totality of the African slave narrative.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Fever Pitch
Overview: An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Charley-One-Eye
Overview: A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-18
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Overview: Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Overview: The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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The African Queen
Overview: After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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