2020 has been long for most of us with COVID-19 and other hot issues from various parts of the world. This year has also re-engineered many work cultures, working from home has become a norm all around the world and tech tools and apps that aid productivity has become insanely popular among businesses.
With most of our daily business operations now moved to home including corporate meetings, most people have enough time to engage with their families, watch their favourite TV shows and more.
Netflix grew its earnings significantly around the world during these trying times, it’s one of the major platforms almost everyone turned to for entertainment.
Netflix has increased the volume of its Black and African movies library and certainly a one-stop-shop for latest Black and African movies.
In this post, we take a look at 10 Black/African Netflix recommendations for you this December.
These movies are selected not only based on when it was released but also ratings and comments they’ve had.
- Riding With Sugar
A coming-of-age, feel-good story about a young refugee’s quest for BMX glory and the pursuit of identity, safety, happiness and love.
- Adú
Premiered on 31 January 2020 in Spain, Adú is a 2020 Spanish drama film directed by Salvador Calvo, written by Alejandro Hernández and starring Moustapha Oumarou, Luis Tosar and Álvaro Cervantes.
- Gangsters Paradise: Jerusalema
This is a 2008 film which tells the tale of a petty crook (Rapulana Seiphemo) who runs a criminal empire in Johannesburg, but an escalating war with a drug lord and police pressure threatens to shut him down.
- Living In Bondage: Breaking Free
This is part two of 1992’s Nigerian supernatural thriller “Living In Bondage”. Mentored by a mysterious tycoon, an ambitious young man faces a crisis when his rise to power draws him deep into the occult.
- All Day and A Night
All Day and a Night is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Joe Robert Cole. It stars Jeffrey Wright, Ashton Sanders and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. A young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery after landing in the same prison as his father.
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the play of the same name by August Wilson. Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
- Citation
Citation is a 2020 Nigerian film directed by Kunle Afolayan, written by Tunde Babalola and starring Jimmy Jean-Louis, Temi Otedola and Bukunmi Oluwashina. A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her.
- 4th Republic
4th Republic is a 2019 Nigerian political drama film directed by Ishaya Bako and written by Ishaya Bako, Emil Garuba and Zainab Omaki.
- Operation Christmas Drop
Congressional aide Erica (Graham) forgoes family Christmas to travel at her boss’s behest. At a beachside Air Force base, she clashes with Capt. Andrew Jantz (Ludwig), who knows her assignment is finding reasons to defund the facility.
- Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is a 2020 American Christmas musical fantasy film written and directed by David E. Talbert. It stars Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ricky Martin, and introducing Madalen Mills.
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