Best African mystery movies

After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!

A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.

Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.

When a woman is accused of a high-profile murder, a young lawyer takes on her defense, only to uncover a web of secrets, deceit, and hidden motives. As he digs deeper, the case becomes more personal—and far more dangerous than he ever expected.

Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

A man works for a museum in Lisbon, and receives an artefact from a colleague working on excavations in Egypt. But this object has a supernatural strength.

A family and businessman (Adam) is accused of running a criminal empire while he denies the accusation by being the one who take criminals down.

September 1960. As Nigeria prepares for independence from the British, a seasoned police detective rushes to find the serial killer slaughtering its native young women.

When Temi, the gorgeous wife of a high profile senator is robbed, four suspects arequickly apprehended and arrested. Although each detainee proclaims his innocence, Temi identifies each of the attackers along with her stolen property, seemingly resolving this classic open and shut case. But a senior detective, on the eve of his retirement risks his reputation when he suspects there is more to the story. High powered political intrigue clashes with gritty street violence and the prospect of deep corruption in this riveting mystery where one man fights to prevent the truth from becoming another casualty.

When Yehia's scientific investigation of the paranormal yields nothing, he takes a forced vacation from his work and regular life. Wandering aimlessly, he settles in a seaside guest house that is inhabited by a group of quirky characters. As Yehia grows intimate with the owner and close to her charismatic young daughter, he believes he's stumbled across the magic he had sought for so long. It appears that something out of the ordinary seems to exist within them all, and perhaps also within himself.

The coming of age of young Alexander, future world conqueror, from his boyhood in Greece to his assumption of Regent of the Land, after proving his worth to his father, the demanding King Phillip.

Paul Taylor, a middle-aged man, is devastated after losing something that meant the world to him. He decides to give up everything and to go and teach at a reform school for young teens in the hope he would come to understand the criminal mind of a child.

Two buddies and a girl, down on their luck, have their lives changed when one of them discovers a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend, bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years...

A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's name.

A bright and promising young girl gets abducted and taken to a terrorist camp, where she unexpectedly crosses paths with her soulmate.

Beyond the locked door of a room in which eight people without memories are trapped, lies the truth about their identity, but to recover it, they have to evade a maniacal murderer.

A young man encounters an unusual occurrence at his apartment

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A disillusioned Johannesburg street thug rescues an orphaned child with uncontrollable supernatural powers. On the run, he must help the sickly boy master his gift before a superstitious family member finds them.

Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.

A young lady on a National Youth Service assignment becomes the saviour of a little town at the mercy of a mysterious killer.

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Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying Osama her fiancé, he tells her that he is a demon who is in love with her. Fatima refuses Galal's request and orders him to stay away from her as she is the only person who can see him.

The myth of returning the body of the king (Set Nakht) the god of evil to the ancient Egyptians for life, and returning him to rule for the sake of controlling mankind, the focus of interest of evil groups for thousands of years until now ... Much of the blood of the bodies of innocent people asked sacrifices waiting for the hour of the return of the god (six) So is the time approaching? Will journalist (Salma) reveal the secret of the legend?

A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic turn. The mother joins a mystic ceremony to face her grief and the lost bond with her daughter.

Adham a faithful husband still mourning his deceased wife,visited one night by a woman in white revealing her secret love for him since college,and his wife true acts behind his back,but the big revelation was this woman is no longer from the living and its her ghost that paid him a visit.

Years after the mysterious murder of her parents, a traumatized woman gains supernatural powers that aid in her quest for revenge against the killers.

In a secluded cove on the South African coast, a middle-aged writer grieving the deaths of his wife and daughter is drawn into an affair with an alluring teenage girl who is grappling with demons of her own, in this gripping psychological thriller adapted from the award-winning novel by Alistair Morgan. (TIFF)

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The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.”

A husband is shocked that after having a baby, he realizes that he is infertile.

A police officer and his assistant investigate a brutal murder case in which the main suspect is a sculptor. A pathologist helps the police decipher the mystery that is the murder by examining the adrenaline that the body secretes when in terror. Can that help them solve the case?

Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying Osama her fiancé, he tells her that he is a demon who is in love with her. Fatima refuses Galal's request and orders him to stay away from her as she is the only person who can see him.

A woman consumes water from the sink without realizing the threat she's put herself into.

Snaaks Genoeg (Funny Enough) is an entertaining and poignant dark comedy, which explores the pain inflicted by humour on the average human being. The film, an original piece written and directed by David Moore, follows a down-and-out comedian (Casper de Vries) who drifts from one small town to another. Having alienated his audience with his crude comments and dirty humours, his popularity has faded. He hits the road fighting not only for survival, but also to find the spark he once had. He has been reduced to doing shows in small towns and working for food and accommodation. As he drifts from remote location to remote location, successful comedians are being kidnapped, tortured and murdered in bizarre ways, and he seems to be riding right into the centre of this storm.

Hamdi borrows from the scrap dealer (Moseri) to spend on his inventions. Hosary tries to obtain the secret of these inventions. Hamdi suddenly disappears and announces his death. The lawyer informs his wife (Nahed) about his brother's will, who died in Mexico, that his wealth be transferred to the third brother (Saeed) then a sudden event occurs that changes the course of events.

The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.

Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the killer.

A Horror comedy with unexpected twists in an equally strange cable ... and an outright lie only be returned by the end neck.

Midnight Drink is a gripping short film about a guy whose bike gets stolen in an instant

Shanbo is an accounting employee in a bakery, who offers to a young journalist his story production to be published in the magazine she works for, and through the working relationship between Shanbo and the girl, a love story between them interferes with the events of the plot to assassinate the wealthy, miserly aunt, which her nephew is planning to capture Shanbo and get the wealth and the girl and shanbo tries to prove his innocence of the charge.

The daughter of a wealthy man is tormented by visions of her father's death while a struggle over inheritance plays out.

The bodies turn out to be very radioactive. A sheriff and reporter start to investigate ...

The film revolves around the "Blue Whale Challenge" game used by many young people and adolescents, after the spread of technology and the parents' preoccupation with their children which might lead to their exposure to great risks.

Across the city of Cape Town, a sex-line operator, a dog handler and a computer technician begin to suspect that their romantic relationships are the subject of a bizarre conspiracy, involving their family, friends, and possibly even greater forces. 'Love the One You Love's parallel stories question the ideals we hold too sacred: love, happiness, and the New South Africa; the pursuit of which makes truth impossible.

'L.I.F.E.' intertwines the tales of Ema, an advertising professional yearning to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a dancer, and Yinka, a passionate dancer struggling with life's challenges.

Adham Fahkry has a lot of money and owns a company with huge capital. He tries to make his secretary, Jihan, believe that he is deeply in love with her and wants to marry her. Lawyer Ramzi Sultan storms into Adham's office and demands that he pay compensation to one of those he harmed. Jihan discovers that Adham is deceiving her, and events escalate.

Quirky "Katangari", a Retired Police Inspector and legendary sleuth is called to Abuja to investigate the murder of his international businesssman cousin, Chief Bello Gyang. Suspects include Bello's family friends and associates all confined in his beautiful mansion until the culprit can be identified.

The story revolves around the successful doctor (Majdi), and his beautiful fiancée Munira, (Majdi) is very concerned about his lineage towards his mother with whom he lives in the same house.

Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

Documentary filmmaker Ahmed El Shazly is working on a new film about a cotton gin. When a worker who reveals to him what's happening in the gin is killed, Ahmed and his sweetheart are determined to uncover the truth.

Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.

A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.

A new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies.

One of the princesses dies after hiding some of her jewelry in one of the salon chairs in the palace and informs Ashour her servant that the wealth is for her daughter residing abroad, and he knows that the rest of the palace servants and the servants of the hotel in which she was staying, each of them tries to win the fortune alone, Ashour seeks to hand over Treasure to his companions.

An accused who is sentenced by the judge to death, and all the evidence against him, but the accused denies that he committed the crime, which prompted his daughter to visit the judge in his home, all of which are confident in her father's innocence and due to her poor psychological condition, the judge went to prison to meet the accused sentenced to death on a secret visit, and briefed him about his daughter's case and asked him to comfort her psychologically.

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides.

With the jewelry, Naji then betrayed Aziz and handed him over to the police, and Camellia delayed getting her share. Naji had a relationship with his shop worker, Nashwa, and he had previously deprived the hostess, Suhair, of her honor and delayed her marriage.