Best African series

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

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    Paranormal 2020

    Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.

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  • Poster for Blood & Water

    Blood & Water 2020

    After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.

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  • Poster for Unseen

    Unseen 2023

    A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.

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  • Poster for Queen Sono

    Queen Sono 2020

    A highly trained South African spy must face changing relationships in her personal life while taking on her most dangerous mission yet.

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  • Poster for Fatal Seduction

    Fatal Seduction 2023

    A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.

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  • Poster for Penguin Town

    Penguin Town 2021

    In a picturesque South African town, an eclectic group of endangered penguins flock together to find mates, raise families and mix with the locals.

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  • Poster for Charlie Jade

    Charlie Jade 2005

    Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire.The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.

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  • Poster for Trackers

    Trackers 2019

    Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

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  • Poster for Shadow

    Shadow 2019

    Haunted by a tragic loss, an ex-cop with a rare inability to feel pain strikes out on his own to catch offenders who've eluded Johannesburg police.

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  • Poster for Finding Ola

    Finding Ola 2022

    After a life-altering event, Ola embarks on a journey of self-discovery while dealing with the challenges of raising two children and making ends meet.

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  • Poster for Reyka

    Reyka 2021

    In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

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  • Poster for Savage Beauty

    Savage Beauty 2022

    Seeking revenge for her tragic past, a mysterious woman embeds herself in a powerful family who possess a global beauty empire — and dark secrets.

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  • Poster for Shaka Zulu

    Shaka Zulu 1986

    South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.

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  • Poster for Young, Famous & African

    Young, Famous & African 2022

    This reality series follows a crew of famed, affluent stars as they work and play, flirt and feud in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  • Poster for Family Matter

    Family Matter 2021

    Ibrahim reluctantly accepts becoming the legal guardian of his estranged daughter for six months, setting himself up for hilarious and lifechanging experiences.

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  • Poster for Blood Sisters

    Blood Sisters 2022

    Connected by a dangerous secret, best friends Sarah and Kemi are forced to flee after a wealthy groom disappears at his own engagement party.

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  • Poster for White Lies

    White Lies 2024

    Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past.

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  • Poster for Recipes for Love and Murder

    Recipes for Love and Murder 2022

    Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

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  • Poster for Marked

    Marked 2025

    Desperate to pay for her daughter's life-saving surgery, devout ex-cop Babalwa turns to an unholy savior to help her stage a daring heist.

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  • Poster for Ludik

    Ludik 2022

    To save a kidnapped family member, an enterprising furniture tycoon must use his secret diamond smuggling operation to transport guns across the border.

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  • Poster for Justice Served

    Justice Served 2022

    A band of freedom fighters invade the trial of a white police officer who shot a Black man — and a hostage situation unfolds on screens nationwide.

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  • Poster for Balto

    Balto 2023

    In a comic framework, (Atef), the newly graduated young doctor, is assigned to a health unit in a village, and then he suddenly finds himself becoming the director of the health unit and responsible for everything.

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  • Poster for Every Week Has a Friday

    Every Week Has a Friday 2020

    Hoping to leave her past behind and start anew, Laila strikes a deal that prompts her to marry and live with Emad, a mentally-challenged man. However, their life together gets complicated when henious crimes take place at their living place each Friday.

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  • Poster for Al-Kabir Awy

    Al-Kabir Awy 2010

    Al Kabeer seeks to find love again after his wife was gone, unaware that what he is looking for is closer than he imagines.

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  • Poster for House Duties

    House Duties 2024

    A forensic doctor named Hamdi Abdel Rahim and his wife are expecting twins after a long marriage. They make the difficult decision to hire a home manager to look after the twins, but they struggle a lot to find someone.

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  • Poster for Tuiskoms

    Tuiskoms 2025

    After a series of misfortunes, Fleur — mourning a deep loss — takes her daughter and returns to her hometown in search of a renewed sense of purpose.

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  • Poster for Kings of Jo'Burg

    Kings of Jo'Burg 2020

    The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg's criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse and a tangled web of betrayal threaten to destroy them.

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  • Poster for The Ultimatum: South Africa

    The Ultimatum: South Africa 2024

    A six-way partner-swap sparks wild attractions and tearful betrayals. Participants choose whom to love and leave in this heart-pounding experiment.

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  • Poster for The Assassins

    The Assassins 2024

    The events take place in a historical context, in the 11th century, where the leader of the Assassins, Hassan al-Sabah, and his leadership of the band that was famous for carrying out bloody assassinations of prominent figures at that stage.

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  • Poster for El Le'ba

    El Le'ba 2020

    The series revolves around the personality of a hotel manager named "Wassim", during which he is exposed to many comical situations with tourist destinations and others.

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  • Poster for Survivor South Africa

    Survivor South Africa 2006

    Survivor South Africa is a South African version of the global reality competition Survivor created by Charlie Parsons, in which contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes.

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  • Poster for How to Ruin Christmas

    How to Ruin Christmas 2020

    Prodigal daughter Tumi tries to make things right after completely ruining what should have been her sister's picture-perfect Christmas wedding.

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  • Poster for El Soffara

    El Soffara 2023

    Shafeeq, a tour guide, steals Tutankhamun's time travel whistle. A golden opportunity to get a do-over for his life and achieve his dreams.

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  • Poster for King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines 2004

    Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching for the fabled King Solomon's Mines--a destination of legendary riches from which no soul has ever returned alive.

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  • Poster for Special Case

    Special Case 2024

    As Nadim Abu Saree, who has exceptional abilities, starts working at a well-known law firm owned by Amani El Najjar, his journey becomes fraught with difficulties, and despite being exploited in numerous ways, his personality and pure heart always save him.

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  • Poster for Grand Hotel

    Grand Hotel 2016

    In the 1950s, Ali, a young man, arrives at the Grand Hotel in the beautiful city of Aswan to investigate the disappearance of his younger sister. He gets a job as a waiter and falls in love with the daughter of the owner "Nazly". Nazly starts to help him to discover the truth about his sister's disappearance. Then the story takes a different twist to discover all the secrets and mysteries hidden in the wonderful Grand Hotel.

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  • Poster for Far from Home

    Far from Home 2022

    Through a scholarship to a top school, Ishaya ends up in the luxurious world of the happy few in Nigeria, but a secret threatens not only to put an end to this.

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  • Poster for Chasing the Sun

    Chasing the Sun 2020

    Chasing the Sun is a powerful SuperSport documentary made in collaboration with the Springboks and tells the rousing tale of their path to redemption and World Cup glory in 2019.

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  • Poster for The Killing

    The Killing 2022

    Police Captain Hisham begins his investigation into the murder of an influencer found dead in the car of a national club electoral candidate.

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  • Poster for Catalog

    Catalog 2025

    A recently widowed workaholic clumsily navigates life with his kids, guided by his late wife's online tips. Can he ace this crash course in parenthood?

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  • Poster for Newton's Cradle

    Newton's Cradle 2021

    The two lovers, Hazem and Hana, decide to have their baby in America to get the nationality. However, they come across many obstacles that threaten their marriage, especially when Hana stays in America and does not come back.

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  • Poster for The Brave Ones

    The Brave Ones 2022

    An all-mighty goddess reincarnated as a young woman must harness her divine powers to avenge her sister's death and protect her family from destruction.

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  • Poster for Room 207

    Room 207 2022

    Upon starting his post as a hotel receptionist, Gamal hears the rumors about the mysterious Room 207 and finds himself obsessed with discovering the truth.

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  • Poster for Multifaceted

    Multifaceted 2020

    Sokkar is a professional swindler who gets outdone by Omar, another swindler. As she enters into a series of conflicts to get her money back from him, she eventually decides to unite with him to carry out bigger defrauding operations.

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  • Poster for Lam Shamsiyya

    Lam Shamsiyya 2025

    Nelly is haunted by terrifying doubts that her stepson may have been harassed by a close family friend. Refusing to stay silent or look the other way, she follows her instincts on a dangerous journey.

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  • Poster for The Giza Killer

    The Giza Killer 2023

    A man of many faces is caught in his own web of deceit and murder. Seven love stories. Four lives. Three murders. And only one killer.

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  • Poster for Blood Legacy

    Blood Legacy 2024

    After years of estrangement, Khanyi Adesina returns home to fight for her family's business empire as it threatens to collapse under corruption.

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  • Poster for Home is My Home

    Home is My Home 2022

    In a setting of comedy and horror, Benno is forced to return to Cairo in order to settle his inheritance, but is soon shocked to learn that what he inherits will expose him to terrifying adventures.

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  • Poster for Take Care of Zizi

    Take Care of Zizi 2021

    After lashing out at her husband and causing him a severe injury that amounts to a felony, a nervy young woman embarks on a journey to prove her innocence.

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  • Poster for Dead Places

    Dead Places 2021

    An author who has dedicated his career to solving paranormal cases, returns home to South Africa to investigate the biggest mystery of his life: His sister's death in a water canal 20 years ago.

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  • Poster for I Want to Get Married

    I Want to Get Married 2010

    The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.

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  • Poster for Choufli Hal

    Choufli Hal 2005

    Sboui lives next to his brother and mother. Many funny adventures ensue in the old building of a fortune teller as he falls in love with her daughter. Sboui works as a secretary at his brother's office, a psychotherapist.

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  • Poster for Lioness

    Lioness 2021

    A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.

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  • Poster for El Harsha El Sab'a

    El Harsha El Sab'a 2023

    In the seventh year of their marriage, boredom, and fatigue take over the lives of high school sweethearts Adam and Nadine. Between the pressures of raising their twins and their routine life, will their love overcome these challenges?

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  • Poster for His Excellency

    His Excellency 2014

    After his retirement, Bahgat constantly runs into trouble with his family, thanks to his wife’s intense jealousy, his issues with his children and their spouses, and the generational gap between him and his grandchildren.

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  • Poster for Yoh! Christmas

    Yoh! Christmas 2023

    Single, 30 and under pressure, Thando lies to her family that she has a boyfriend. Now she has 24 days to bring one home for Christmas. Can she do it?

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  • Poster for Rivo

    Rivo 2022

    After the sudden death of her father, Miriam discovers her dad's script about an obscure band called Rivo; prompting her to finish the script. She discovers secrets connecting her dad to them, & family secrets that will change her forever.

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  • Poster for Gaafar El Omda

    Gaafar El Omda 2023

    When rich businessman and village elder Gaafar is approached by the young Aida about a loan, he offers to give her the money on one condition: being his wife for 400 days.

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  • Poster for Nelly and Sherihan

    Nelly and Sherihan 2016

    Nelly is a wealthy girl, and Sherihan is the opposite. They happen to be cousins, with completely different personalities. When they find out that they will be getting an inheritance from their grandfather, they put their differences aside to solve the 'Mickey Mystery' which should get them to the inheritance.

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  • Poster for Jiva!

    Jiva! 2021

    JIVA! is a fun and energy-packed drama series that follows the life of the talented street dancer Ntombi, who while juggling the demands of a dead end job, family responsibility and a rocky love life realises that her dance moves could be her ticket out of her working class neighbourhood in Durban. But first, she must overcome her fears, beat her rivals and sort out the chaos that is her family.

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  • Poster for Echoes of the Past

    Echoes of the Past 2024

    Accused of his sister's murder, Yehia is fiercely determined to seek vengeance and unmask the true perpetrator.

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  • Poster for Full Count

    Full Count 2023

    When Ahmed, a plastic surgeon, and Laila, the owner of a cosmetics project, meet, they soon fall in love with each other, but their different family circumstances stand in the way of their relationship, but they decide to get married and defy the circumstances.

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  • Poster for A Girl Named Zat

    A Girl Named Zat 2013

    Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.

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  • Poster for Devilsdorp

    Devilsdorp 2021

    In 2016 a spate of brutal and mysterious killings grips the town of Krugersdorp. Is a serial killer behind these vicious attacks, and who will die next if the police don't catch them? The investigation into these so-called Appointment Murders, leads local detectives to a series of unsolved cold cases linked to satanism, and opens the door on a cult ruled by terror, greed and revenge

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  • Poster for The Choice

    The Choice 2020

    The story of Ahmed Saber Al-Mansi, commander of the 103rd Brigade, Thunderbolt, who was martyred in the ambush of the Burth Square in the Egyptian city of Rafah in 2017 while responding to a terrorist attack in the Sinai.

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  • Poster for Miseducation

    Miseducation 2023

    After a public humiliation, a wannabe influencer enrolls in a small-town university, where she aspires to regain her social status.

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