Best African romance movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch romance films from Africa, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack

    Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack 2017

    When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the world. It seems like the whole world wants to take down Destiny and her team, and they just might succeed, unless Destiny can rise to the challenge, set her ego aside and figure out who her real friends are.

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  • Poster for Moffie

    Moffie 2020

    A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

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  • Poster for Rafiki

    Rafiki 2018

    Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.

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  • Poster for The First Grader

    The First Grader 2010

    The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

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  • Poster for Touki Bouki

    Touki Bouki 1973

    Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

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  • Poster for Cairo Time

    Cairo Time 2009

    In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.

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  • Poster for Tarek's Situation

    Tarek's Situation 2006

    Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.

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  • Poster for Bewildered Bolbol

    Bewildered Bolbol 2010

    Bulbul meets a successful aristocratic girl named Yasmine, but she's not the romantic type he dreams of, at the same time he admires his cousin Hala for her calmness and kindness. In the middle of all this, the psychiatrist Amal shows up and he thinks of getting engaged to her.

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  • Poster for A Safari Romance

    A Safari Romance 2023

    A wildlife biologist working on fostering the protection of wildlife in Africa is forced to team up with a theme park designer who wants to create an over-the-top safari attraction

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  • Poster for She Made Me a Criminal

    She Made Me a Criminal 2006

    The movie is about a very naive young man, who wants to fix his house before it falls, but does not have the money, and rich girl who likes to spend money uncontrollably, whose father is scrooge, who would not give her access to her trust fund. In order to force her father to give her money, she stages a kidnapping with the assistance of her best friend and the naive young man, who ends up falling in love with her.

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  • Poster for Half of a Yellow Sun

    Half of a Yellow Sun 2013

    An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.

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  • Poster for Upper Egyptian in the American University

    Upper Egyptian in the American University 1998

    Khalaf, a bumpkin southern Egyptian wins a scholarship to study at the American University in Cairo where students - many from Cairo's upper class - are known for their Americanized attitudes.

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  • Poster for Sleepless Nights

    Sleepless Nights 2003

    A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.

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  • Poster for Hepta (The Last Lecture)

    Hepta (The Last Lecture) 2016

    Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

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  • Poster for Meet the Khumalos

    Meet the Khumalos 2025

    Two moms — once best friends, now arch-enemies — start a neighborhood war against each other when they find out their kids are head-over-heels in love.

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  • Poster for A Soweto Love Story

    A Soweto Love Story 2024

    Desperate for her three single sons to get married, a mother promises her house to the first one to tie the knot, setting off a race to the altar.

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  • Poster for Lobola Man

    Lobola Man 2024

    Ace Ngubeni, a slick lobola negotiator, faces his toughest deal yet for a shy client - only to find the stakes are higher than cash.

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  • Poster for A Naija Christmas

    A Naija Christmas 2021

    Three sons try to make their mother’s dreams come true by bringing home wives for Christmas.

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  • Poster for El Lemby

    El Lemby 2002

    El-Limby lives in a decrepit neighborhood with his mother Faransa and he develops feelings for his neighbor. However, her father objects to their marriage, and El-Limby's mother encourages him to find a job to provide for his family-to-be.

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  • Poster for Chaos, This Is?

    Chaos, This Is? 2007

    Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.

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  • Poster for Photocopy

    Photocopy 2017

    Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.

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  • Poster for Omar & Salma

    Omar & Salma 2007

    Story of Omar, son of a wealthy business man, who was in a relationship with a model, Farah, and decided to forget her after a fight with her manager in a club with whom she cheated on him. His friend introduces him to Salma, a new colleague who recently moved to the university, she had a hard past when her ex boyfriend who cheated on her with her mother and he has to do his best to win her heart

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  • Poster for Happiness Is

    Happiness Is 2024

    Turning forty was meant to be a low-key event for Princess, but when her best friend throws her an unforgettable party, her entire world is shaken up.

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  • Poster for Taimour & Shafi'aa

    Taimour & Shafi'aa 2007

    Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, their love is put to the test when he is assigned to protect her as her personal body guard when she is promoted to the level of Minister.

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  • Poster for Trippin’ with the Kandasamys

    Trippin’ with the Kandasamys 2021

    To rekindle their marriages, best friends-turned-in-laws Shanthi and Jennifer plan a couples' getaway. But it comes with all kinds of surprises.

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  • Poster for You-Know-Who

    You-Know-Who 2003

    Ellambi how stole from his uncle and go to prison and then he escaped from prison and during the hunting he makes an accident

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  • Poster for The Nightingale's Prayer

    The Nightingale's Prayer 1959

    This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.

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  • Poster for Love Story

    Love Story 2019

    Youssef, whose brother is trying to push him to marry, and during that, an accident occurs for (Youssef) who loses his sight, and coincidentally one day he clashes with the girl (Jamila), who cares for him and takes care of him later, and relates to his love, but it seems that they will face a difficult test, when he becomes over each of them To prove his love for the other.

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  • Poster for At Cairo's Railway Station

    At Cairo's Railway Station 2006

    Reda, a young salesperson meets Malak in the railway station who asks him to play the role of her husband before her rich parents who live in Upper Egypt.

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  • Poster for Abu Ali

    Abu Ali 2005

    When a young man on the run crosses paths with a woman escaping her own troubles, the two become unlikely fugitives. Hunted by the law and framed by the media, they must fight to prove their innocence and survive the chase.

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  • Poster for H Dabbour

    H Dabbour 2008

    Film is in the form of satire, movie review the crises facing the Egyptian people, particularly the suffering of the popular classes . Belongs "Haitham Daboor" Ahmed Mekki, a rich family, cares about trivial matters Fashion and multiple love relationships, but it is exposed to a variable in his life and his father is an entry prison on charges of false tries to save his father, Haitham, which leads him to shift from one person to another measly serious and committed and engaged seriously with life, and in the context of the events is in love with Haitham "Aroah", the daughter of his driver, a girl from the popular

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  • Poster for Divine Intervention

    Divine Intervention 2002

    Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in the hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

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  • Poster for The Treasure: Truth & Imagination

    The Treasure: Truth & Imagination 2017

    The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.

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  • Poster for Omar & Salma 2

    Omar & Salma 2 2009

    Now parents, Omar and Salma hit some obstacles while raising their two children and staying in love after the honeymoon ends.

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  • Poster for Semi-Soet

    Semi-Soet 2012

    To prevent a corporate takeover, a hardworking businesswoman hires a fake fiancé to secure a massive contract from a family-minded wine estate.

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  • Poster for Umjolo: The Gone Girl

    Umjolo: The Gone Girl 2024

    A couple's seemingly perfect relationship falters when one of them learns about the other's infidelity — but who said that relationships were easy?

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  • Poster for Born to Be a Criminal

    Born to Be a Criminal 2006

    Our man has about everything against him : he is short, weak, so simple, with an IQ far below the average. There is no wonder why he keeps on being teased by his friends, parents and even fiancee. But circumstances will turn him into a hero and then a vicious criminal feared by all. Half-educated and out-of-work, Taha, is kidnapped by a gang of thieves in his hometown Alexandria. Unbeknownst to them, neither Taha's mother nor his girlfriend has a fraction of the ransom

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  • Poster for Pad Na Jou Hart

    Pad Na Jou Hart 2014

    Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.

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  • Poster for Thieves in Thailand

    Thieves in Thailand 2003

    Heema finds out that he has a brother. He accepts him in his life because he needs him to paint an exact copy of an expensive painting , that he plans to steal and smuggle to Thailand.

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  • Poster for Vir Altyd

    Vir Altyd 2016

    Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.

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  • Poster for Taslim Ahali

    Taslim Ahali 2022

    When Khalil and Zahia discover a deep dark secret about their newly married parents, they find themselves on a rollercoaster of unexpected events.

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  • Poster for Karate Kallie

    Karate Kallie 2009

    An Afrikaans story about a chubby 17-year old (Kallie) who struggles to fit in in his new school. On top of that, luck has it that he falls in love with the school bully's sister.

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  • Poster for Messages from the Sea

    Messages from the Sea 2010

    A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.

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  • Poster for Girl's Love

    Girl's Love 2004

    The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.

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  • Poster for In the Heliopolis Flat

    In the Heliopolis Flat 2007

    Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.

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  • Poster for El Hawa Sultan

    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.

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  • Poster for 365 Days of Happiness

    365 Days of Happiness 2011

    The film revolves within the framework of romantic comedy, which embodies the personal Ahmed Ezz young man with multiple relationships and refuses to marry until the girl thin marks (Donia Samir Ghanem) occupy his heart.

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  • Poster for Happiness Ever After

    Happiness Ever After 2021

    This sequel to "Happiness is a Four-Letter Word" finds Zaza, Princess and Zim living new chapters of their lives amid loss, family grudges and new love.

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  • Poster for 6 Days

    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.

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  • Poster for Light of My Eyes

    Light of My Eyes 2010

    The role of the movie is about two friends, one travels to a European country And The Other One combat To blind girl falls in love and when return to Egypt together they discover the same girl that he loves his friend and she traveled to this country to search for a way modern medical help to restore its consideration.

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  • Poster for Thieves in KG2

    Thieves in KG2 2001

    Two thieves, Hassan and Sebaey, plan to rob the safe in the Kaitby Fortress in Alexandria, but the police capture Sebaey, who asks Hassan to take care of Nesma, his daughter; if he does this, Sebaey will not say that Hasan conspired in the robbery attempt. Hassan meets Nesma's teacher, Miss Reem, and the two become romantically involved. Miss Reem does not know of Hasan's history.

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  • Poster for A Man Wanted

    A Man Wanted 2017

    Eager to fulfill her dream of motherhood before it's too late, a relationship-skeptic banker comes up with an unusual plan to become a single mother.

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  • Poster for Italia's War

    Italia's War 2005

    Yaseen is a lawyer who works for senior attorney, Kamaal. When he discovers that Kamal is involved in an illegal business with a tycoon, he gets publicly disbarred and loses his job. His fiance gets abducted to Italy when he tries to redeem himself, so he relentlessly forms a plan to set things right.

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  • Poster for Life's Indulgences

    Life's Indulgences 2005

    Hanan has been unhappy due to the passing of her father, while her husband Sharif has been eyeing Ghada, the young daughter of his driver. They are friends with a married couple, Ahmed and Mona, but Mona has been chatting online with her ex-boyfriend. All of their lives change when Sharif's driver finds out that Ghada as run away from home to be with Sharif and Ahmed finds out what Mona has been doing online.

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  • Poster for Umjolo: Day Ones

    Umjolo: Day Ones 2024

    Zanele and Andile have been best friends since day one. But now that Andile is married with kids, is Zanele destined to be in the friend zone forever?

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  • Poster for Zulu Wedding

    Zulu Wedding 2019

    Lu left South Africa and her Zulu-Sotho heritage behind to become a dancer in America, and when she falls in love with Tex, she knows he’s the man to marry. But when she brings Tex home to meet her family, she discovers she’s been promised since birth to a Zulu king. Caught between two men, two families, and two countries, Lou has to come to terms with who she is so she can fight for what she wants.

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  • Poster for The Blazing Sun

    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.

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  • Poster for The Beach Loafer

    The Beach Loafer 2004

    Three friends from Alexandria singing in the popular Wedding accuse someone of murder and trying to prove his innocence in order to be able to marry his fiancee.

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  • Poster for The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai

    The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai 2017

    In "The Wedding Party" sequel, Nonso has continued his romance with Deirdre, the bridesmaid from London. Nonso manages to propose by accident, while on a dinner date, and sets off a chain of events too powerful to stop.

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  • Poster for Marital Cheating

    Marital Cheating 2012

    Hazem is a spoilt young man and a womaniser who takes advantage of his father's wealth to know more and more girls and stays away of commitment. When his father discovers what Hazem is doing, he starts to look for an appropriate wife for his son. Salma, is the lucky candidate who is desperately trying to change her husband's behaviour.

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  • Poster for Mafia

    Mafia 2002

    After his expulsion from the Military Academy, Hussain gets involved in mafia crimes abroad. Upon being deported to an Egyptian prison, and in order to give him a second chance to live a well meaning life, the Egyptian Intelligence Agency assign him with a secret mission. Hussain reluctantly accepts extensive bio-psychological training with a unique patriotic team who revive his love for his country.

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  • Poster for A Sunday Affair

    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.

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  • Poster for The Flirtation of Girls

    The Flirtation of Girls 1949

    Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

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  • Poster for Bibo and Beshir

    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.

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  • Poster for Christmas in Lagos

    Christmas in Lagos 2024

    Romance is in the air when the beat drops for Lagos' Detty December. Fiyin is convinced her best friend Elo is the love of her life, but is shocked when he returns home for the holidays with a secret fiancée. Gbemi is torn between her boyfriend and an old flame, while London-raised Ivie seeks a wild holiday but doesn’t count on falling for Ajani.

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  • Poster for Okal

    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.

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