
Maynard Eziashi
Actor · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maynard Eziashi (born 1965 in London, England) is a British/Nigerian actor. In 1991, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his starring role in Mister Johnson (1990) alongside Pierce Brosnan. Other films, where Eziashi has played a part, include Twenty-One (1991), Bopha! (1993) and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). Description above from the Wikipedia article Maynard Eziashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movies17
Movie6.3CrimeComedySummoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · 4.7K votes
Movie5.8DramaActionAttempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
The Contract
2006 · 590 votes
Movie6.0ActionCrimeA hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
2001 · 32 votes
Movie4.9ComedyDramaMorgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
A Good Man in Africa
1994 · 46 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaThe true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Colour Me Kubrick
2005 · 88 votes
Movie4.9DramaComedyKatie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Twenty-One
1991 · 14 votes
Movie8.0RomanceDramaJust days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man she loves, she persuades the love-struck henchman De Flores to murder her fiance, but does not anticipate the tragic consequences of her actions.
The Changeling
1993 · 1 votes
Movie5.4DramaIn this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
Bopha!
1993 · 14 votes
Movie6.2DramaIn 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Mister Johnson
1991 · 40 votes
Movie5.2ComedyJanice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999 · 5 votes
MovieDramaRomanceWhen Adlyn, a woman preacher at a Gospel Church in London, meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart.
Movie4.4ComedyRomanceBrendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000 · 13 votes
Movie7.6ComedyDramaFor generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.
National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles
2018 · 5 votes
Movie1.0DramaSheltering beneath the streets of London, the company of a West End play find themselves isolated from their loved ones when a nearby terrorist attack cuts short their final night performance. Minds racing over past anxieties from the run, they contemplate life-and-death decisions within the claustrophobic confines of the theatre basement.
Upon the Edge
2021 · 2 votes
Movie7.0The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany.
Anansi
2003 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaCourt’s girlfriend Lorna is addicted to drugs. He is desperate to get her off them, but a secret from his past threatens to drive them both over the edge.
On the Edge
1998 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaCrimeTwo boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since school?
Bad Boy Blues
1996 · 2 votes
Series5
TV7.1DramaSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985 · 7 votes
TV6.3DramaAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Performance
1991 · 2 votes
TV7.3DramaComedyHotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
Hotel Babylon
2006 · 40 votes
TV4.5DramaDer Kapitän is a German television series.
Der Kapitän
1997 · 2 votes
- TVDrama
Solicitor Mungo Dawson finds his orderly world collapsing when he is assigned to a Nigerian fraud case, and defendants start to disappear.
Downtown Lagos
1992