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Being Mrs. Elliot

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Dioni Vision, an Omoni Oboli Film, presents, Omoni Oboli (Lara), Majid Michel (Bill), Ay Ayo Makum (Isawuru), Lepacious Bose (Bimpe), Uru Eke (Fisayo), Seun Akindele (Efe), Sylva Oluchy (Nonye), Chika Chukwu (Adaeze), Ada Lewis Egbosi (Wendy). Story/ screenplay, Omoni Oboli; Director of Photography, John Demps; Producers, Omoni Oboli/ Nnamdi Oboli; Executive Producers, Omoni Oboli/Nnamdi Oboli; Director, Omoni Oboli. © 2014. Being Mrs. Elliot could be hard. She’s not too friendly and doesn’t like her husband’s relative’s kids and she’s compulsive, […]

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Phone Swap

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Golden Effect presents, Nse Ikpe Etim (Mary Oyennekwe), Wale Ojo (Akin Cole), Joke Silva (Mrs. Cole), Chief Chika Okpala (Mary’s father), Ada Ameh (Cynthia), Lydia Forson (Ginna), Chick Chukwu (Hussana), Hafiz Oyetoro (Alex Ojo), Alexis (Sophia Chioma Onyekwo), Charles Bullion (Alpha), Jay jay Coker (Omega). Director/Producer, Kunle Afolayan; Story/Screenplay, Kemi Adesoye; Director of Photography, Yinka Edwards/Alfred Chai. © 2012 It is your first day of school, and you are hurrying up to locate your class, you have a handful of

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The Bridge

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Golden Effects presents, Ademola Adedoyin (Obadare Adeyemi), Chedima Ekile (Stella Maxwell), Kunle Afolayan (Jire), Zack Orji (Dominic Maxwell), Tina Mba (Mrs. Maxwell) Ayo Akinweale (Oba Adeyemi), Binta Ayo Mogaji (Olori Omolade), Ken Erics (Augustine), Peter Johnson (Pascal), Akinrule Akinola (Arinze). Producer, Lasun Ray-Eyiwumi; Director, Kunle Afolayan, Shola Dede. © 2017. I am not that old to have witnessed the Biafran or, Nigerian civil war, or at my rudimentary age in life and school when this incident in Nigerian history was

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Lionheart

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Netflix presents, Genevieve Nnaji (Adaeze Obiagu), Nkem Owoh (Godswill Obiago), Pete Edochie (Chief Ernest Obiago), Kanayo O. Kanayo (Igwe Pascal), Ngozi Ezeoma (Chioma Obiagu), Kalu Ikeagwu (Samuel Akan), Sani Mu’Azu (Alhaji Danladi Maikano), Yakubu Mohammed (Hamza Maikano), Peter Okoye (Arinze). Executive Producers, Genevieve Nnaji, Chinny Onwugbenu; Director of Photography, Yinka Edward; Second Unit Director, Paul Hills. © 2018. “A very little key will open a very heavy door.” Charles Dickens. This Charles Dickens quote is in line with the story

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1929

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Ndy Akan Film present, Ireti Doyle (Adiaha Edem), Sola Sobowale (Market Leader), Sam Dede (Chief Warrant Officer-Okpala), Becky Odungidi (Affiong), Ndy Akan (Arit), Uduak Odungidi (Iquo), Tony Solomon (District Officer), Prince Iyke Egwasi (Chief Warrant Bulu), Etini Essien (Mission Teacher), Thelma Ukeme (Ebong’s Daughter. Story, Moses Eskor; Screenplay, Moses Eskor, Winifred Rosa, Idiongomfon Akpan; Production Manager, Aniekan Ekanem; Director of Photography 1, Emeka Ezemonye; Director of Photography 2, Kingsley Bassey; Producer, Ndy Akan; Associate Producer, Victor Akan; Executive Producers, Anna

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Hakkunde

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Asurf Films Ltd., presents, Frank Donga (Akande), Rahama Sadau (Aisha), Maryam Booth (Binta), Ibrahim Daddy (Ibrahim), Alhaji Issa Bello (Alhaji Sule) Hadiza Solja (Amina), Toyin Aimakhu-Johnson (Yetunde), Tomwa Kukoyi (Aboki), Production Manager, Judith Adu; Director of photography, Asurf Oluseyi; Story, Asurf Oluseyi, Gift Imafidon, Toni Adesina; Screenplay, Toni Adesina; Executive Producers, Abi Babalola, Asurf Oluseyi, Babatunde Babalola; Producer/Director, Arsurf Oluseyi. ©2017. “This year’s award for best original screenplay goes to…” A man graduates from university with one of the rarest

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Single at 40

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Yvonne Okoro (Tatiana), Tbi Bright (Yolanda), Beverly Afoglo (Kondra), Zyall Lydia Zuh (Zila), Mzbell (Serena), Clara Zeta Galega (Kristine), John Dumelo (Brad), Edie Watson (Tony), Ajatey Anang (Hanks), Prince David Osei (Quincy), Timothy Bentum (Wayne), Eunice Ohene (Bibi). Director/Screenwriter, Pascal Amanfo; Producers, Abdul Salam Mumuni/Kinsley Okereke; Director of Photography, Adas Umar, Story, Abdul Salam Mumuni.   It took almost two hours of screen time for six middle class and well-to-do, urban women of Accra, for one of them to get to

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Kidnap

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Nwankwo Michael production presents, Sylvester Madu (Mathew), Jamila Musa (Kachi), Emeka Danile (Augustine)Kenneth Kanu (Augustine), Emelda Ogbonna (Ambassador’s Daughter). Director of Photography, Chris Antus; Producer, Nwanko Michael; Director/ Executive Producer/ Screenwriter, Theophilus A. Ichendu. “Yes, I de hear you now…Are you serious…? Which day exactly…? Are you serious? Is done…of course, we go sharam.” That’s the one-sided conversation on the phone that gets Sylvester Madu (Mathew) spring into action, into kidnapping the Ambassador’s daughter in Kidnap. That’s how he normally

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Potomanto

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Perfect Images Studios, Henriksm Multimedia Concept Ltd present, Olu Jacobs (Bankole), Adjety Anang (Adane) Marie Humbert (Susan), Yvonne Okoro, (Alice) Jason Nwoga (Jarreth) Christabel Ekeh (Afia), Fred Kanebi (Thomas). Production Manager, Lydia Laryea; Editor, Nana Akua Manso; Screenwriter/Director, Shirley Frimpong-Manso; Producer, Henry Ikechukwu Simon; Director of Photography, John Passah. (C) 2013 The English call it portmanteau, a word coined from the French; the Americans call it suitcase and the English-speaking Africans call it almost in their vernacular, potomanto. This is

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