Best African action series

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

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 In Your Dreams

    In Your Dreams 2023

    Best friends, Marcus and Lloyd, have just been evicted from their apartment and are struggling to keep their pest control business afloat. Then an old classmate introduces them to an ancient African statue that just might be the answer to their prayers. The tribe who created the relic believes it has the power to make dreams come true. Just not the kind of dreams our friends were hoping for.

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  • Poster for Sons of the Sun

    Sons of the Sun 2025

    Wala’a and Miftah grew up together in Dar Al-Shams, bound by a deep friendship. They believe they are protecting the orphans, but when they try to defy Majed, the ruthless director, everything changes. They face a tough test as they fight for survival in a merciless world.

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  • Poster for Omar Affendi

    Omar Affendi 2024

    A man in his thirties finds a secret basement that takes him back to the year 1943 and reveals a past he did not know about. Driven by his curiosity, he chooses to live a double life in two different times...

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  • Poster for Shaka iLembe

    Shaka iLembe 2023

    Set in the 1700s, Shaka iLembe tells the story of the making of the iconic African king, with iterations from his early childhood through to adulthood.

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  • Poster for Metal Tears

    Metal Tears 2025

    Metal Tears is a South African musical drama adventure limited series created by and starring rapper and singer Youngboi OG. The series serves as a visual interpretation of his second studio album, also titled Metal Tears.

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  • Poster for Raafat Al Haggan

    Raafat Al Haggan 1988

    Revolves around a national epic in the files of the Egyptian intelligence on the biography of the Egyptian hero, Rifat Ali Suleiman Al-Jamal, who was planted inside the Israeli community to spy for the Egyptian intelligence. He was instrumental in preparing for the October War.

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  • Poster for Tayee

    Tayee 2018

    An Egyptian doctor becomes a police informant and uses his rare gift of tracking ancient artifacts in the smuggling business.

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  • Poster for Naji Attallah's Squad

    Naji Attallah's Squad 2012

    A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

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  • Poster for Supa Team 4

    Supa Team 4 2023

    Four teens are just trying to survive secondary school when an ex-spy recruits them for her superhero team. Their newest assignment? Saving the world.

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  • Poster for The God Father

    The God Father 2017

    The series revolves around a large family dominated by Father Zain Al Attar, who embodies the course of the artist Mahmoud Hamida, and has a large number of children who live with him in the house except two, one of them lives in a shelter and the other an aggressive person, and recounts the relationship of this father with gangs of arms and smugglers.

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  • Poster for Al Refaee's House

    Al Refaee's House 2024

    In an action setting, the events revolve around a doctor who enters into several conflicts with those around him, due to the antiquities trade

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  • Poster for Bimbo

    Bimbo 2021

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  • Poster for The Legend

    The Legend 2016

    The series revolves around a young law school graduate Nasser (Mohammed Ramadan) who lives in the Sabbatiyah area, seeking to join the judiciary. In conflicts with a major arms dealer

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  • Poster for Meluk El Gadaana

    Meluk El Gadaana 2021

    After their friend Ali was killed, Safina and Sareya steal Zahy El Attal's bag, which contains diamonds, and from here begins the conflict between the two friends and Zahy.

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  • Poster for INDIE CROSS

    INDIE CROSS 2023

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  • Poster for Desert Rose

    Desert Rose 2022

    The Greyling siblings reunite at their family home in the Namaqualand desert in the Northern Cape after one of them reneges on a decade-long deal to settle the debts they took on when their father abandoned them and disappeared.

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  • Poster for The Magician's Show

    The Magician's Show 2024

    The events revolve around the lives of three childhood friends Lama, Mix, and Alfy as they transform from close companions into a clever crew of con artists, using their unique skills to outsmart the greedy and fund their wildest dreams.

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  • Poster for The Bridge

    The Bridge 2022

    Noah tries to bring his son to safety at all costs amidst a war-torn world, but he must evade the danger posed by the vengeful Dalila and her army.

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  • Poster for The Last Round

    The Last Round 2024

    Yehya, post-divorce and diagnosed with Alzheimer's like his father, seizes an unexpected chance from Shabaka to pursue his dream of becoming a professional fighter. Motivated by redemption and a desire to connect with his daughter, he persuades Tambi, to train him for a final fight. Yehya struggles with memory loss striving to preserve recollections amid his challenging circumstances.

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  • Poster for Bolice

    Bolice 2015

    The security team works to search for the criminals and arrest them after collecting sufficient information, but in a comedic and funny way, especially in the repeated clash in the thoughts and actions of the operations commander, Rashid, with one of the squad members, Ammar.

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  • Poster for The Covenant (The Permissible Speech)

    The Covenant (The Permissible Speech) 2015

    The story of the Covenant (العهد) unfolds in a fantasy world in an unset time and place, in an atmosphere of excitement, crime, horror and drama blended with magic and fantasy. The story of 3 small neighbouring villages and the struggles among the members of Aldiabh family to gain control over the villages and the Covenant which sets the rules of the land. The Family do not hesitate at anything in order to reach their goals, lying, ploting, stealing and even killing the people closest to them.

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  • Poster for The Hunter

    The Hunter 2014

    The events of the series revolve around a young man who works in a security agency, and after an accident occurs that hinders him from carrying out his work duties, he is excluded from working in the agency, but at a later time the members of the security apparatus fall into confusion in front of one of the issues, and they only have to use the same The young man who was dispensed with in the past to help them unravel the mystery about this issue.

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  • Poster for The Ruffian

    The Ruffian 2020

    In the world of local neighborhoods, a sect of strong people come together to manage the affairs of these neighborhoods. Known as Al-Fetewa, they are ruffians who shoulder the responsibility of the people in their neighborhoods.

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  • Poster for The Mercury

    The Mercury 2017

    The events take place in 1998 It is a real story from the Egyptian General Intelligence files about a young man named Omar Salah, who works as a surveillance camera technician with Major General Galal.where Omar is recruited by the Egyptian intelligence by the officer Khaled in order to be inserted in Europe to reveal the Mossad members there.

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  • Poster for Counterattack

    Counterattack 2021

    Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.

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  • Poster for Arende

    Arende 1989

    Epic drama follows a group of Boers during significant events in South African history. The first series is primarily set on St. Helena and follows the lives of Boer prisoners-of-war at Deadwood Camp. Among them is Sloet Steenkamp, a Cape Rebel whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the island. The second series shifts to post-war mainland South Africa, where the Boers, though returned, still struggle for freedom. New characters are introduced, including Meisie, who is mute due to trauma, and her mother Cornelia, who seeks revenge.In the third series, Sloet and his friends, yearning to escape British rule, embark on the Dorsland Trek, a perilous journey across the Kalahari Desert in search of freedom beyond South Africa's borders.

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  • Poster for Soon Comes Night

    Soon Comes Night 2024

    A former freedom fighter orchestrates a series of heists in defiance of the law while trying to evade corrupt authorities and a cop with a tragic past.

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  • Poster for Zelzal

    Zelzal 2019

    When a man's house gets destroyed in an earthquake and he dies, his son is unable to prove ownership of the house. Then things get more complicated when he falls in love with the daughter of the man who sold the house.

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  • Poster for Mpakani: Story of the North

    Mpakani: Story of the North 2022

    An elite military unit races to prevent a dangerous fugitive from executing an assault in Nairobi.

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  • Poster for The Silk Kingdom

    The Silk Kingdom 2025

    Three brothers separated by life are brought together in a fierce battle for the royal throne. Fate changes on the birthday of King Nour El-Din's second son, when Uncle Golden kills the king and pursues his heir. The faithful servant Radwan escapes with Princes Shams El-Din and Jalal El-Din, but they are separated. Shams El-Din grows up as a slave in the battalion, while Jalal El-Din grows up among thieves. When they meet again, conflicts between loyalty and betrayal explode in a battle for power.

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  • Poster for Bayn Al Qosour

    Bayn Al Qosour 2024

    Sakina is a girl from a poor family who lives in a popular neighborhood. Sakina is exposed to a strong shock in her adolescent, which radically changes the course of her life. Years later, life circumstances force her to return to her hometown, "Bayn Al Qosour" Sakina confronts her painful past and seeks to know the truth about what happened to her in her childhood.

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  • Poster for Arende

    Arende 1989

    Epic drama follows a group of Boers during significant events in South African history. The first series is primarily set on St. Helena and follows the lives of Boer prisoners-of-war at Deadwood Camp. Among them is Sloet Steenkamp, a Cape Rebel whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the island. The second series shifts to post-war mainland South Africa, where the Boers, though returned, still struggle for freedom. New characters are introduced, including Meisie, who is mute due to trauma, and her mother Cornelia, who seeks revenge.In the third series, Sloet and his friends, yearning to escape British rule, embark on the Dorsland Trek, a perilous journey across the Kalahari Desert in search of freedom beyond South Africa's borders.

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  • Poster for Abu Omar Al-Masry

    Abu Omar Al-Masry 2018

    An ambitious lawyer survives an assassination attempt, he escapes to Belgium to start a new life with a different identity, decides to seek revenge.

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  • Poster for Hogan

    Hogan 2019

    Hogan, a young man who lives in a slum, is known for his super strength abilities. He moves cars with his bare hands, twists metal coins with his fingers and he is a popular eater of glass. When he climbs the social ladder, his life changes completely.

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  • Poster for The Hunter

    The Hunter 2014

    After a debilitating accident, a member of one of the security services is deemed unfit for duty and gets fired. But when his former colleagues confront a puzzling case, they are forced to call upon him to help solve the mystery.

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  • Poster for El Nemr

    El Nemr 2021

    After an accident cost him his memory; Nimr finds himself involved and his life has become a part of the life of Egypt's biggest gold merchant as he tries to discover his identity.

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  • Poster for The Eight

    The Eight 2022

    A gang plans to kill one of its members after disobeying the rules, but their plan goes south, leaving him alive to plot his revenge.

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  • Poster for Shoulder Touch

    Shoulder Touch 2019

    Adham (Yasser Galaal) is a former boxer who uses his physical robustness in criminal activities. After he gets out of jail, he decides to quit, but he has to stand up to the pressure of the mobsters who want to keep his illicit services.

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  • Poster for Dreams Of El Tayer Boy

    Dreams Of El Tayer Boy 1978

    After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.

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  • Poster for The Journey

    The Journey 2018

    On flight 710, a number of passengers share one thing with each other: that they are all mental patients with hidden secrets. Their plans and stories converge into one fate.

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  • Poster for Vertigo

    Vertigo 2012

    Farida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.

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  • Poster for Al Ameel 1001

    Al Ameel 1001 2005

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  • Poster for Spies War

    Spies War 2009

    The series revolves around an attempt to recruit a girl named Samia Fahmy (Mena Shalaby) for the Israeli intelligence, but the opposite happens, she informs the Egyptian intelligence and decides to cooperate with them.

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  • Poster for Ali Al- Zebak

    Ali Al- Zebak 1984

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  • Jay Jay: The Chosen One 2023

    Follow 11-year-old Augustine who dreams of representing his school at a prestigious football tournament with a team made up of his rag-tag group of friends. Along with his passion for soccer, he loves the animal kingdom, which bestows superpowers on him in return for his fight against illegal poaching.

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  • Poster for Flying Boy Dreams

    Flying Boy Dreams 1987

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  • Poster for Bakkar

    Bakkar 1998

    "Bakkar" is the name of an Egyptian cartoon series and the main character in the series who tells of his adventures. Bakkar is a young boy who belongs to a Nuba village in southern Egypt and finds himself in the adventures of himself and his friends. He helps the police solve the puzzles because he feels responsible for his community. At the end of each episode, he presents a moral message to children, belonging and patriotism. The series produced a very great success, and Bakkar's character was the first Egyptian cartoon character to come out

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  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat

    Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat 1987

    (Karima w Halima W Fatima)The series tells in a fun way the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, where in every episode Sherazade tells a new story or continues a story and the beginning of a new story until the king always listens to it and postpones the decision to get rid of it.

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  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando

    Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando 1986

    The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.

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  • Poster for Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr

    Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr 1985

    A strange love story grows between the human prince Nour and the princess, the mermaid, who does not have legs but a tail like fish, and the mermaid tries to become as human as her lover until her love succeeds

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  • Poster for Hodoa Nisbi

    Hodoa Nisbi 2009

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  • Meshwar emraa 2003

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  • Poster for Birth Certificate

    Birth Certificate 2016

    The dramatic events revolve around (Ali) the police lieutenant colonel who is investigating a corruption case, with the sequence of events discovering papers proving that he is the son of (Yahya Nosier), one of the businesspeople accused in the corruption case he was investigating.

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  • Poster for one hour in hell

    one hour in hell 2008

    One hour, just one small hour, and a whole life turns upside down! The stories differ from one episode to the next, the characters as well, from all walks of life! What happens during this short period of time to the point of disrupting a whole life? The stories are multiple and diverse. Action and suspense are there! You will be held captive and nothing will be able to distract you from this program!

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