01 A pregnant army wife's husband is implicated in a real, failed 1976 military coup.
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Nollywood turned Nigeria into one of the largest film industries in the world by output, and the films that broke past straight-to-video roots into real international attention are the ones worth starting with.
01 A pregnant army wife's husband is implicated in a real, failed 1976 military coup.
02 A daughter fights to keep her ailing father's transport company from collapsing.
03 An undercover journalist infiltrates a sex-trafficking ring to expose it from the inside.
04 A student's sexual harassment case against a professor exposes a university's culture of silence.
05 Two sisters' lives are torn apart by the Biafran War, adapted from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel.
06 A chaotic Lagos wedding spirals through one family disaster after another.
07 A wandering weaver gains the power to resurrect the dead, and it costs him everything.
08 A detective investigates a serial killer in the tense final days before Nigerian independence.
09 A man's ritual pact for wealth curses his family, the film that effectively launched modern Nollywood.
10 A powerful businesswoman's political ambitions expose Lagos's underworld of crime and corruption.
11 Three friends raised in a tight-knit Lagos slum are pulled in different directions by politics, crime, and loyalty.
12 Three teenage friends set off on a chaotic quest through Lagos and Ibadan to recover a stolen laptop.
13 A deacon turns vigilante after his son is killed in a police cover-up tied to a corrupt political conspiracy.
14 A resourceful single mother's five sons pull off a heist to save her from a debt-fueled crisis.
15 A wealthy patriarch's sudden death sends his sprawling family scrambling to claim their share of his estate.
16 A single Nigerian woman under pressure to marry finds herself torn between her family's expectations and a foreigner she's falling for.
17 A cursed forest shrine grants two friends unbelievable luck, until the seven-year deadline for repayment arrives.
18 Two strangers on the same flight accidentally swap phones, forcing them to live each other's chaotic lives.