Movies and TvShows featuring "marabout" theme.

A young woman in Dakar, Senegal, is forced into a arranged marriage while in love with another man. When her lover disappears at sea, she is devastated. However, strange and mysterious events begin to occur as her lover's spirit possesses the bodies of several workers who died at a construction site. This supernatural tale explores themes of love, loss, and the traditions of Senegalese culture.

Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly, a Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her daughter on a beach. Rama, who is pregnant and in a mixed-race relationship, connects with Coly and plans to write a modern-day retelling of the Medea myth. As she learns more about Coly's life, Rama becomes increasingly anxious about her own life and pregnancy.

A young woman goes through a series of relationships and experiences in her search for love, while also exploring her own desires and discovering her true self. From threesomes to infidelity, she navigates through the complexities of modern relationships and learns valuable lessons along the way.

Xala is a satire comedy set in Senegal, focusing on a wealthy businessman named El Hadji who is struck with impotence on the night of his marriage to his third wife. The film explores themes of colonialism, neocolonialism, and corruption as El Hadji's impotence becomes a metaphor for the impotence of post-colonial African nations.

Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with her. He doesn't understand. The nights drag on, his demons get involved, he chooses to face them and to anchor himself in reality. He probes his feelings, revisits from top to bottom the artifice of his life. Max ends up rediscovering his love for Hélène and decides to win her back. But isn't it already too late?