After blessing you all with some banger Nollywood recommendations on YouTube, we are back with some of our favourite Nollywood movies to watch on Netflix this June.
If you’re in the mood to watch a messy investigation of a Lagos neighbourhood, spoiled brats waking up to smell the coffee, or a survival game on a dusty interstate highway, I have the best binge-list for you. These are the best Nigerian movies to watch on Netflix this month.
Running time: 1h 50m
Director: Seyi Babatope
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Imagine waking up to find a whole dead body in your compound. This murder mystery takes a mandatory environmental sanitation day and turns it into a high-stakes whodunit when a corpse mysteriously drops in a regular face-me-I-face-you house while the streets are on lockdown. Nobody can go in or out, and every tenant is a prime suspect in a messy police investigation.
Watch Sanitation Day on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 56m
Director: Kayode Kasum
Genre: Comedy, Drama
The movie throws together a bunch of totally mismatched strangers who pack themselves into a random bus heading East, all thinking they’ve secured a sweet transport bargain. But because cheap things will always cost you your peace of mind, what is supposed to be a regular road trip turns into a trouble ride when their bus gets hijacked by armed robbers in the middle of nowhere.
Watch Soole on Netflix.
Running time: 2h 31m
Director: Kunle Afolayan
Genre: Drama
This movie follows Moremi (Temi Otedola), a student who gets sexually assaulted by her lecturer. She does the brave thing and drags his matter to the school’s disciplinary panel. But Nigeria, being Nigeria, a lawless place, the tribunal process flips the script and makes her the villain. They put her on the hot seat and make her fight for her academic life in a wild game of gaslighting.
Watch Citation on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 50m
Director: Tope Alake
Genre: Action, Drama
This is about Nimbe (Chimezie Imo), an innocent teenager who grows up too quickly and is trying to survive the problems of a dysfunctional home. But because the streets are always looking for who to swallow, he ends up with the worst crowd. The desire to belong becomes a dark descent into substance abuse and gang violence.
Watch Nimbe on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 52m
Director: Ramsey Noauh
Genre: Action, Thriller
Tokunbo (Gideon Okeke), a retired car smuggler who lives a quiet, legal life with his family, gets dragged back into the game for one last job. The job is to smuggle the kidnapped daughter of a very powerful government official across the border in exactly three hours, or watch his own family get wiped out.
Watch Tokunbo on Netflix.
Running time: 2h
Director: Biodun Stephen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Summy (Timini Egbuson), an arrogant and spoiled rich kid wakes up one morning to the shock that nobody in his life, not even his own mother or his closest friends, recognises him. Overnight, his entire life and identity vanish into thin air. He starts life afresh with Todowde (Bimbo Ademoye), a bread seller.
Watch Breaded Life on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 46m
Director: Kayode Kasum
Genre: Drama, Romance
This is Tamara (Sandra Okunzuwa), another ridiculously spoiled, high-society bride-to-be whose entire existence revolves around living the soft life. But as she prepares for the society wedding of the year, disaster strikes: her father’s assets are frozen, her wealthy fiancé does a runner and her bank accounts hit zero. She’s shaken out of her bubble. Now, she has to build a survival instinct and life afresh without wealth and fake friends.
Watch Something Like Gold on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 35m
Director: Genevieve Nnaji
Genre: Drama
Adaora (Genevive Nnaji) is an executive who has dedicated her life to keeping her father’s transport company afloat. When her dad suddenly falls ill and is forced to step down, he brings in his loud brother to take the wheel. Suddenly, our main babe is forced to co-run the family empire with an uncle whose entire business strategy and operations are almost the opposite of hers. But they have to make things work.
Watch Lionheart on Netflix.
Running time: 1h 23m
Director: Akay Ilozobhie
Genre: Drama
This is a hilarious comedy about Dare (Timini Egbuson), an entitled ajebutter who thinks the entire world revolves around his family’s money. He’s arrogant, completely out of touch with reality and disrespectful to everyone around him. One day, he gets trapped in an elevator with Abigail (Toyin Abraham), a no-nonsense pregnant woman who has zero patience for his bullshit.
Watch Elevator Baby on Netflix.
Running time: 2h 3m
Director: Adeoluwa Owu
Genre: Drama
Adire (Kehinde Bankole), a retired lady of the night who decides she’s done with the streets. She packs her bags and relocates to a small town to start a new life. To secure her daily bread, she taps into her creative side and launches a business making sexy, custom lingerie out of traditional local fabrics. The local women love it; her business is booming until her success attracts the wrong kind of attention.
Watch Adire on Netflix.
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