The best Issaka Sawadogo’s movies

Issaka Sawadogo

Issaka Sawadogo

Today we present the best Issaka Sawadogo’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Issaka Sawadogo’s movies.
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Belleville Cop

Belleville Cop
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/10/2018
  • Character: Abdoulaye
When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.

Walter

Walter
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/03/2019
  • Character: Walter
or Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .

Samba

Samba
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/10/2014
  • Character: Jonas Karanoto
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

The Invader

The Invader
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/2011
  • Character: Amadou / Obama
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.

Night of the Kings

Night of the Kings
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/02/2021
  • Character: Nivaquine
A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/11/2010
  • Character: Bintu's Father
Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve, beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. The plot unfolds during a few afternoon hours on Christmas Eve. The individual stories, which at times intertwine, are set in the small town Skogli. The characters in the stories cover a great range in age and life situations, representing both reconciliation with their own lives and strong frustration. Some show the will to understand and do something about their lives, while others have given up. Deeply tragic and melancholy aspects are mixed with humour and rather frivolous solutions.

The Paradise Suite

The Paradise Suite
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/2015
  • Character: Yaya
The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

The Black Lapp

The Black Lapp
6.6/10
Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.

White People

White People
4.4/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 30/10/2015
  • Character: Josef
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?

Sounds of Sand

Sounds of Sand
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/05/2007
  • Character: Rahne

Yesterday

Yesterday
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/2018
  • Character: Gabriel
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Diego Star

Diego Star
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/01/2013
  • Character: Traoré
A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.

Animal

Animal
6.1/10

The New World

The New World
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/2013
  • Character: Luc
Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West African Luc is brought in, Mirte seems to get a grip on her life again. A film about loss, fleeing and love from an unexpected corner.

Hotel Swooni

Hotel Swooni
5.9/10
  • Release: 24/08/2011
6 personages. 24 uur. Een hotel middenin een hittegolf in Brussel. Anna en Hendrik hebben het allemaal: een toffe zoon, een goeie job, een mooi huis… Het huwelijksfeest van Anna’s zus doet hen echter nadenken over de keuzes die ze gemaakt hebben. Violette wil zich voor ze sterft verzoenen met haar dochter Vicky, die als kamermeisje in het hotel werkt. Maar Vicky lijkt niet zo snel geneigd om het conflict bij te leggen. Ze ontfermt zich over Joyeux, een kleine Afrikaanse vluchteling die zich in het hotel verschuilt voor de politie...

Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel

Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/09/2019
  • Character: Self
On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own producer, i.e. boss. The relationship between characters and their natural environment plays a major role in her work that is often based on novels.

Cool Abdoul

Cool Abdoul
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/09/2021
  • Character: Azziz
The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.

Re \ Entry

Re \ Entry
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/2019
  • Character: Man
'What happened? Where am I?' The man who wakes up alone in the woods has many questions. Is he dead and in the hereafter? The voice of God soberly answers his questions: Yep, that’s right. Traffic accident. But it’s not that bad, because everyone eventually dies. All the man’s questions, also about the meaning of life, are answered. In an equally entertaining and stimulating dialogue in English, the film evokes a comprehensive image of the universe and man’s place in it.

Ousmane

Ousmane
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/2021
  • Character: Ousmane
The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

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