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Compiling the five Nigeria best films so far is not as easy as this list reads. It’s just five films right, how hard could it be? It can be hard work depending on what kind of movie year it was. The year might have been rife with great movies that it makes it almost impossible picking out just Ten to call the very best. Or the year might have been choked up with terrible movies that you’d have to examine through a microscope to pick out the good ones.

While the first quarter of the year had quite a number of films playing to packed cinema houses (always a good sign for the industry),we soon realised that a film scoring a great cinema opening does not particularly guarantee great viewing..... Continue reading


We pick out five of the year’s best films and another five worthy of note. Hoping the New Quarter of the Year will be better.

NUMBER FIVE: ORE ( Friend)

Nollywood actress, Biodun Okeowo is well known to be one of the Yoruba best Female producer, with the best selling movie last year " Ife n Siere" talking about Lesbian and the consequences, now a new movie of her has just hit the market and is selling fast. 

Ore was been shot in United States of America.

Below is the full detail on the film 

Film title: ORE (Friend)

Location:  Lagos, Ogun State and United State

Produced by: Biodun Okeowo

Directed: Kunle Adegbite

Production Manager: Afeez Eniola

Make-up: Esther Kalejaiye

Cast: Yinka Quadri, Doris Simeon, Aishat Abimbola, Iyabo Ojo, Kunle Adegbite, Remi Surutu, Tayo Adeleye, Tayo Odueke (Sikiratu Sindodo), Tayo Adeniyi, Allwell Ademola and Rafiu Balogun (Baba Balogun).

NUMBER FOUR: DUMEBI...THE DIRTY GIRL/DUMEBI GOES TO SCHOOL/ DUMEBI THE BITTER LEAF

 SYNOPSIS: After Frank, Kenneth Okonkwo, impregnates a village illiterate Dubem, Mercy Johnson, in the village. She is made to come and live with him in his house in the 'city'. On arrival. First day. She forgets her son in the taxi and spends the night searching for him. As the amusing events of the day unfold and the day turns to night and the night to day, the next day the taxi driver returns the child and 'Sweet Mango' Dubem returns to Frank's house. Frank is bothered by her illiteracy and village mannerisms and even though he prefers Dubem, he is forced to keep Cynthia, Nuella Njubigbo, around him to save face and for public events much to the irritation of Dubem. Who will Frank choose in the end? Bitterleaf Cynthia or Sweet Mango Dubem?
    
NUMBER THREE: MR & MRS

Mr. & Mrs. Cast,Actor,Actress: Nse Ikpe-Etim, Joseph Benjamin, Barbara Soky, Thelma Okodua, Paul Apel, Paul Sambo, Chioma Nwosu, Mpie Mapetla, Nonye Ike

Director: Ikechukwu Onyeka

Producer: Chinwe Egwuagu

Story/Screnplay: Not available

Release Date/Year :2011

Mr. & Mrs. Nollywood Nigerian Movie 

The success of Mr. Ken Abba (Benjamin Joseph) gave him so much power and fame even over his own marital home. Having his way or no way was the order of the day as Mrs. Abba ( Nse Ikpe-Etim), a housewife looked speechless to his abusive ways, even to the extent of bringing his mistress to their matrimonial home. Will Mrs. Abba continue to be a slave in her own home to save her marriage? Or will she fight back? Be my guest. “Hell has no fury like a woman’s scorned”

NUMBER TWO: OCTOBER 1

It’s September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed.

Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other… leading to the climatic end in which the life of a popular local female teacher and village belle, TAWA, is held in the balance. Waziri has to race against the clock to capture the killer, save Tawa and solve the crime before the British flag is lowered and the Nigerian flag raised on Independence Day… October 1.

NUMBER ONE: MAAMi

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Single parent, MAAMi, and her young son are desperately poor. Gifted with a living heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is the centre of her son’s world, until he longs for the father he has never known – a man with a terrible secret.
Set over a two-day period, leading to the 2010 World Cup, MAAMi is an inspiring story of a poor, conscientious single parent’s struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo who eventually, rises to intrnational stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero.
Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same name, this film about love, perseverance and fate unfolds through Kashimawo’s reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta