
Olu Jacobs
Actor · b. 1942 · Kano, Kano State, Nigeria
Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs (born 11 July 1942), known professionally as Olu Jacobs, is a Nigerian actor and film executive.
Movies15
Movie5.8ThrillerActionMercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.
The Dogs of War
1980 · 185 votes
Movie6.3AdventureComedyThe adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Pirates
1986 · 320 votes
Movie5.2AdventureActionA paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
1985 · 78 votes
Movie5.8AdventureDramaDr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Ashanti
1979 · 55 votes
MovieAn ex police officer sets out to take his pound of flesh when he employs his skills to catch women who cheat on their men.
Potomanto
2013
MovieDramaThrillerAn innocent young girl embarks on a journey in search of a sacred antique pot to save the life of the only heir to the throne, however it is a place where mortals are forbidden and her return is not guaranteed.
The Antique
2014
Movie8.0FantasyFamilyAn ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a mother who takes the stone man back to her family. Soon after, four strangers show up in the village and the Sogood & Firkettle children seem to be the only ones who question the mysterious things that begin to happen. This film was originally broadcast across six 25 minute episodes with a total runtime of 150 minutes. A few years later, the US cable network Nickelodeon edited the miniseries into a 2 hour (including commercials) movie block. This 2 hour edited version was shown throughout the 1980s on US television.
The Witches and the Grinnygog
1983 · 3 votes
MovieA femme fatale who has a sweet and chaste veneer is in fact a ruthless hustler who will go to any length to make money. She fronts a children’s charity alongside her Archbishop Grandfather which they use to traffic children’s organs amidst other criminal activity. [parts 1-2]
Sacred Lies
2011
Movie4.4RomanceComedyA disillusioned London chef visits Nigeria and struggles with her matchmaking mother and restoring the family's rundown hotel. She's heartbroken when she discovers the man she loves is buying it.
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel
2018 · 12 votes
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieStella, 14, works nights. She sings 60s numbers between the stripper with a snake and gorgeous Doris in working men's clubs. She knows what makes her act a success, but does she want to be the sole breadwinner for her family?
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
1984 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ThrillerActionThis action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder and Timipre, two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered.
Oloibiri
2015 · 1 votes
MovieFantasyHistoryIn 1752, conflict breaks out when the beautiful Princess Adesuwa, betrothed to the king and ruler of the Benin Empire, is abducted.
Adesuwa
2012
- MovieHorror
Lost In The Jungle A horror game of Guma (Patience Ozokwor) who sacrifices and engages in human trafficking, in her land became over when youth corpers that are serving in their land revealed her secretes to the the villagers.
- MovieDramaHorror
Lost In The Jungle A horror game of Guma (Patience Ozokwor) who sacrifices and engages in human trafficking, in her land became over when youth corpers that are serving in their land revealed her secretes to the the villagers.
- MovieDrama
An expectant couple is horrified when the mother gives birth to twins. According to tradition, the villagers believe that twins are evil and must be drowned immediately after birth. The family decides to defy convention and forces a whole community to confront its own values.
Series8
TV7.6Action & AdventureCrimeThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
The Professionals
1977 · 47 votes
TV7.1DramaComedyRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · 24 votes
TV7.0DramaAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
TV7.6ComedyThis English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Till Death Us Do Part
1966 · 28 votes
TV6.5DramaThe series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
1990
1977 · 4 votes
TV7.0ComedyThis first follow-up to 'Till Death Do Us Part' follows Alf and Else Garnett retiring to Eastbourne, and their daughter Rita and grandson Michael Jr. trying to keep the racist, anti-Socialist Alf out of trouble.
Till Death...
1981 · 5 votes
TV7.5FamilyMysteryWhen a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live.
The Witches and the Grinnygog
1983 · 2 votes
TV6.5DramaSquadron is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1982. The series dealt with the adventures of the fictional 370 Rapid Deployment Squadron of the Royal Air Force. The Squadron operated a mix of operational RAF aircraft including the Harrier GR Mk 3, Hercules C Mk 1, Puma HC Mk 1 and the first episode, Phantom FGR Mk 2. One series of ten episodes was made. The leading cast members included Michael Culver, Malcolm Stoddard, Derek Anders, and Catriona MacColl.
Squadron
1982 · 2 votes