TOP 5 - Nollywood Movies on Netflix

If you haven't seen them, I suggest you take some time off to see some of the amazing films coming out of Nollywood

1 - LIVING IN BONDAGE

Twenty-five years after the events of the original movie, Andy Okeke (Kenneth Okonkwo) has abandoned the secret cult that forced him to kill his wife, and is now an ordained pastor. The cult – now known as the Brotherhood of the Six – has expanded into an international organisation with associates of different nationalities, and most of the Nigeria-based members who survived the Otokoto riots of 1996 have fled the country apart from Chief Omego (Kanayo O. Kanayo), now in the running to become the next Imo governor. The film opens with Omego's son Obinna murdering his young daughter as part of a money-making ritual; in a nod to the original, her spirit torments her father throughout the movie, eventually leading to his sudden death towards the end.

Nnamdi Nworie (Swanky JKA) – the secret offspring of Andy's late second wife – is ambitious but unable to hold down a secure career as an advertising executive five years after graduation. Despite the advice of his cousin Toby (Shawn Faqua) who urges him to believe in his abilities, a frustrated Nnamdi longs for a luxurious lifestyle, and his quest takes him down the same route of his father. A chance meeting with billionaire Richard Williams (Ramsey Nouah) leads him to The Six, and after initiation Nnamdi is catapulted into high society status, acquiring vast wealth and falling in love with the beautiful Kelly (Muna Abii), but his new life comes at a price.

Investigative journalist and blogger Uzoma (David Jones) grows suspicious of notable billionaires associated with mysterious murders, particularly after his brother-in-law Obinna killed his own wife and daughter. Having experienced the dark side of cultism himself, Andy uses Uzoma's influence to warn his son and save him from The Six before time runs out.

2 - THE SET UP

The Set Up starts properly with two young women Grace (Kehinde Bankole) and Chike (Etomi) making a clean break from the former’s family, an entity led by a father who has no problem prostituting his daughter. Chike’s dad is a deceased gangster. You can read this as two women leaving their abusive men but what follows suggests they can’t quite fully abandon the seeds those men have sown.

The young women become drug dealers and, although we are never shown any of their runs, we learn they have been successful. Early in the film, the NDLEA raids their place but they escape after a woman tips them off. This woman wants them as employees.

Because it’s a film with a a cold open, the opening credits come late. And when it does, the filmmakers take a creative approach and stage a vaguely James Bondian sequence that is a part of the story about to unfold. Typically, the opening credits present an opportunity to check your phone but you’ll be wrong to do so.

Grace and Chike go to work for Madame (Tina Mba), a Nigerian Jay Gatsby. She hosts lavish shindigs at her “private members’ club” — which is taken for a whorehouse more than once — and we are never sure what she does. But whatever it is, it is not strictly legal and involves drugging rich men and blackmail. As the film progresses, her motivations become clearer. Like Fitzgerald’s hero, she is driven by love, loss and revenge. I would pay to see an entire film about her past.

Joining this group of not-very-good women is Edem (Jim Iyke), a man who first appears to only want to marry a rich heiress. His target is from the Elesho family. The family’s patriarch is dead and survived by a wife (Joke Jacobs), the heiress Motunrayo (Dakore Egbuson-Akande) and a son Bamidele (Ayoola Ayolola). A painful secret is buried by the family but there will be a lot of exhuming. It is, if you excuse the pun, quite the set-up.

Each of the women mentioned so far has her story presented in different overlapping sections, and to help us out, parts of each sections are dated. We travel to the 1990s and end up in 2019. The non-linear chronology is handled very well, even when the costuming and characters seem inconsistent. (In one sub-plot, two different actresses are used to play the heiress over decades but all other major characters are played by the same people.) It’s clever storytelling and when the interactions start to take place it’s easy to follow.

3 - KING OF BOYS

King of Boys tells the story of Alhaja Eniola Salami (played bySola Sobowale), a businesswoman and philanthropist with and a promising political future. She is drawn into a struggle for power which in turn threatens everything around her as a result of her growing political ambitions. To come out of this on top, she is caught up in a game of trust, not knowing whom really to look up to, and this leads to her ruthlessness.

4 - MERRY MEN

The film is set in the Nigerian capital,Abuja. Four rich men (the Merry Men) seduce powerful women, get contracts from the political elite, steal from the rich, give to the poor and have sex with the hottest women in town. They face their biggest challenge yet when they antagonize a notorious and corrupt politician who plans on demolishing a village to build a shopping mall. The four men scheme to save the poor people of the village.With a mix of love, family and friendships, the Merry Men struggle to keep it all together through this epic movie.

5 - UP NORTH

Up Northis a 2018 Nigerian film produced by Anakle Films andInkblot Productions,[1]and directed byTope Oshin.[2]The film script was written by Naz Onuzo and Bunmi Ajakaiye while the original story was written by Editi Effiong.[3]It was shot in Bauchi and a week in Lagos.[4]