Popular Nigerian Movies
A rating system is an excellent way to drive the growth and quality of films. IMDB ranking for Nollywood movies is encouraging more people, to watch Nigerian movies, and making them popular.
IMDB list of popular Nollywood movies contains some of the best but it also contains not so good movies. However, they made it to the list and there is a good chance they have a good universal story that anyone would enjoy.
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The list is still the most accurate list of popular Nigerianmovies on the internet s IMDB has traced their popularity for a while now.
Most Popular Nigerian Movies according to IMDB
- Òlòtūré (2019) – The film recounts the tales of human trafficking
- The Undoing (2018)
- Citation (2020) – Film that encourages women to speak out about sexual harassment inspired by the BBC Eye documentary on the same topic in African universities.
- In Line (2017) – family drama
- 93 Days (2016) – the Ebola struggles in Nigeria in 2014 which claimed the life of the doctor (Dr Ameyo Adadevoh) who fought so hard to prevent the spread in the country
- Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) – covers narratives from Nigeria’s civil war and set at the same time
- The Prince and Me (2006) – romantic drama
- Castle and Castle (series, 2018) – about legal practitioners in Nigeria
- Lionheart (2018) – feminist movie
- Black November (2012) – the story of the oil-rich Nigerian
- Living in Bondage: Breaking Free (2019) – The sequel of the Igbo drama from the 1990s fell from number three most popular Nigerian movies.
- This is my Desire (2020) – family drama
- Mother of George (2013) – family having fertility issues
- If I am President (2018) – a political thriller
- Mokalik (2019) – coming of age drama about a kid, Ponmile
- Put a Ring on it ( 2016) – friendship and relationship
- The Lost Okoroshi (2019) – ancestral African tale
- The Wedding Party 2 (2017) – family and marriage drama
- Smart Money Women (series, 2020) – about rich women
- Jenifa’s Diary (series, 2015 to date) – coming of age story focusing on a wannabe girl
- Hausa Fulani (2006)
- The Johnsons (series, 2012 to date) – family drama
- Across the Bridge 2 (2005)
- Forbidden (series, 2018 to date) – marriage story
- Fate of Alakada (2020) – comedy
Popular Nigerian Movies continued
- Fifty (series 2017 to date) – friendship and sisterhood
- Last Flight to Abuja (2012) – thriller
- The Wedding Party 1 (2016) – a marriage story
- Cold Feet (2019) – marriage drama
- Merry Men 2 (2019) – comedy that covers romance politics
- Lara and the Beat (2018) – Nollywood coming of age movie
- Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons (2018) – comedy that covers romance politics
- Baby Police (2003) – the story of a disturbed kid
- Fifty (2015) – captures friendship and sisterhood
- The Eve (2018) – romance
- The Governor (series, 2016) – political drama
- Nimbe: The Movie (2019) – addresses drug abuse among Nigerian teenagers
- Up North (2018) – political family drama
- The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (2017) – matchmaking movie
- October 1 (2014) – set in the early 1960s Nigeria
- Rattle Snake (1995) – crime drama
- Coming From Insanity (2019) – the story of human trafficking in Africa
- Sex and Love (2018) – Nollywood drama
- Ratnik (2020) – futuristic sci-fi
- The Ghost and the House of Truth (2019) – crime drama
- The Set Up (2019) – the story of Nigerian drug lords
- Hush (series, 2016-2017) – political drama
- Chief Daddy (2018) – the stories of Nigerian extended families
- This Lady Called Life (2020) – Chef drama
- May (2020) – Nollywood college movie
