Onyeka Onwenu
Actor · 1952 – 2024
Onyeka Onwenu is a Nigerian singer and songwriter, actress, human rights and social activist, journalist, and politician.
Movies8
Movie5.0RomanceDramaAn epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
Half of a Yellow Sun
2013 · 30 votes
- MovieDrama
The chief priest in the village dies and the village is in turmoil. Onyeka is constantly being ridiculed and taunted about her condition, the family members bring Maureen in as the new wife. A priest in the village, and Onyeka goes to the Catholic church to pray to God to give her a child.
Rising Moon
2005
Movie8.0DramaMusicAfter her estranged father’s death, Oluchi , an upcoming musician is forced to confront her true self and past mistakes. She reconnects with her daughter through their love for music. However, the echoes from the past spring from every corner, threatening to bring them down.
MovieRomanceDramaSet in 1975, the film tells the story of a soldier and a schoolteacher from opposing tribes who fall in love amid a nation still recovering from civil war and societal divisions. Their relationship is tested by tradition, family loyalties, and a society striving to heal.
Movie6.1DramaComedyIn order to save her father's ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.
Lionheart
2018 · 37 votes
Movie7.3DramaWhen Sade, the central character suffers a personal tragedy, she is taken on a journey of self-discovery and faith which transforms the lives all those around her. God Calling shines a spotlight on modern day spirituality by imaginatively exploring what it might look like for Abraham or Prophet Elijah to be Nigerian in 2018, and have to contend with disbelief as well as modern-day realities such as smartphones, and social media.
God Calling
2018 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaFantasyForeigner's God
2022 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA female society helps newly widowed women overcome the death of their husbands by providing financial help and support to ease the hardships of widowhood. However, things begin to take a sinister turn.
Women's Cot
2005