Movies like Touki Bouki (1973)
The best movies like Touki Bouki (1973) are Hyenas (1992), Mandabi (1968) and Timbuktu (2014). If Touki Bouki hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedLife in a Year (2020)8.2/10 from 2,027 votes
- NewestGabriel's Redemption: Part I (2023)Released 2023
Hyenas (1992)
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mandabi (1968)
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTimbuktu (2014)
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Girl (1966)
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCeddo (1978)
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sambizanga (1973)
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Emitaï (1973)
As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Xala (1975)
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBamako (2007)
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMuna Moto (1975)
Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds himself at the mercy of his uncle’s lust and greed. How can Ngando and Ndomé find peace together? Their journey will be challenging and everyone will learn that not everything special can be saved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Soleil O (1973)
An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Killer of Sheep (1978)
An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoolaadé (2004)
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYeelen (1987)
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorn in Flames (1983)
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoulou (1980)
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2020)
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNothing But a Man (1964)
Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFour Nights of a Dreamer (1972)
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaughters of the Dust (1991)
In 1902, a Gullah family on the Sea Islands off South Carolina decide whether to migrate to the mainland, risking their unique cultural heritage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOssos (1997)
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorse Money (2014)
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSyndromes and a Century (2006)
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Gentle Woman (1969)
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFélicité (2017)
Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGabriel's Redemption: Part I (2023)
After leaving his prestigious post at the University of Toronto, Gabriel embarks on a new journey with Julia, and he is eager to become a father. However, Gabriel's idyllic vision is jeopardized when Julia's intensive program becomes all consuming. When Julia is granted a prestigious opportunity to deliver an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel challenges her about the subject of her presentation, which clashes with his own research. In Oxford, their past resurfaces, including an old nemesis determined to humiliate Julia and expose one of Gabriel's well-guarded secrets. Emotions run high, alliances are tested, and the couple must confront the shadows of their shared history in a battle for love, truth, and redemption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife in a Year (2020)
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Love Song (2022)
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Touki Bouki?
The closest matches to Touki Bouki are Hyenas (1992), Mandabi (1968) and Timbuktu (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Touki Bouki?
People who watched Touki Bouki most often go on to Hyenas (1992), Mandabi (1968) and Timbuktu (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Touki Bouki?
Life in a Year (2020), rated 8.2/10 by 2,027 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Touki Bouki?
Gabriel's Redemption: Part I (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Touki Bouki chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Touki Bouki, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.