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Yoruba Movies: New Releases & Every Film on the Site

14 Yoruba-language films are on What’s After the Movie. Drama leads with 10, then action (3) and comedy (1). The newest release is Ìjọ̀gbọ̀n, out Oct 13, 2023.

Yoruba films on the site
14
first release (latest 2023)
1999
plot summary
1
Genres

What Kinds of Yoruba Movies Are There?

Drama is part of 71% of Yoruba films (10); action (3) and comedy (1) follow. Compared with the whole catalogue, Yoruba films lean most towards drama: 71% of them, against 41% of all films. Films can have several genres. Each bar opens the full list filtered to that genre.

Decade by decade

Yoruba Cinema, Decade by Decade

The 2020s are the busiest decade with 10 films (71%); the earliest Yoruba film on the site is from 1999.

  1. 10 Yoruba films from the 2020s 2020s
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Browse All 14 Yoruba Movies

Filter all 14 Yoruba films by genre, decade or year and sort them by rating, box office, release date or title. The list starts with the 14 released Yoruba films, newest first.

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14 released Yoruba films

Yoruba movies, newest first. Page 1 of 1.

  1. Adire (2023) movie poster

    Adire

    2023 · 2h 4m

    Released Sep 3, 2023

    • Drama
  2. Jagun Jagun (2023) movie poster

    Jagun Jagun

    2023 · 2h 14m

    86 Echo Released Aug 10, 2023

    • Drama
    • Action
  3. Deity (2023) movie poster

    Deity

    2023 · 1h 49m

    Released Jul 21, 2023

    • Drama
  4. Unidentified (2022) movie poster

    Unidentified

    2022 · 2h 3m

    Released Jun 3, 2022

    • Action
    • Drama
    • Mystery
  5. Maami (2012) movie poster

    Maami

    2012 · 1h 33m

    Released Mar 3, 2012

    • Drama
Related languages

Sub-Saharan Africa has 25 languages on the site. Besides Yoruba, the biggest are Afrikaans (101 films), Swahili (29 films) and Wolof (28 films).

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Yoruba Movies: Questions & Answers

Answers from the 14 Yoruba films on the site.

How many Yoruba movies are there?

14 Yoruba-language films are on What’s After the Movie, released from 1999 to 2023. None is ranked by rating yet.

Browse all Yoruba movies

Which decade had the most Yoruba films?

The 2020s, with 10 films (71% of all Yoruba films on the site).

What are the newest Yoruba movies?

Ìjọ̀gbọ̀n (released Oct 13, 2023), The Archive: Queer Nigerians (released Oct 4, 2023) and Adire (released Sep 3, 2023).

New Yoruba releases