With the rise of Netflix in Nigeria, Nollywood content has very quickly proliferated on the American streaming platform. But not all the content on the platform is worth your time.
In this curated list for September 2025, we highlight ten Nollywood movies streaming on Netflix with gripping storytelling and strong performances, perfect for both first-time viewers and longtime fans.
Whether you’re drawn to suspenseful crime dramas like Yahoo+ or emotional narratives like In Line, there’s something here for every viewer.
Here are the 10 best Nollywood movies to watch on Netflix this September 2025.
10. Rattlesnake (2020)
Running time: 1h 50m
Director: Ramsey Nouah
Genre: Drama, Thriller
After the death of his father, Ahanna Okolo (Stan Nze), a young man from modest beginnings, turns to crime as a means of survival. What starts as desperation soon evolves into ambition, as he builds a reputation in the criminal underworld while maintaining the façade of a respectable businessman.
As Ahanna’s double life grows more precarious, betrayal and shifting loyalties close in, forcing him to confront the costs of his choices. This Ramsey Nouah thriller is less about the mechanics of heists than the fragile line between survival and corruption, asking what justice can mean when crime becomes the only path forward.
9. Omo Ghetto: The Saga (2020)
Running time: 1h 50m
Director: Funke Akindele and JJC Skillz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Twin sisters separated at birth grow into strikingly different women: Lefty (Funke Akindele), a sharp-tongued hustler hardened by ghetto life, and Ayomide (also Akindele), a polished professional raised in privilege. When Ayomide returns to Nigeria, their paths cross, pulling her into Lefty’s volatile world of street battles, loyalty tests and survival schemes.
What begins as a clash of personalities unfolds into an uneasy bond, as the sisters struggle to reconcile the worlds that shaped them. This comedy-drama plays as both a riotous portrait of Lagos street life and a tender exploration of family ties stretched across class and circumstance.
Watch Omo Ghetto: The Saga on Netflix.
8. Devil Is A Liar (2025)
Running time: 2h 17m
Director: Moses Inwang
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Adaora Philips (Nse Ikpe-Etim), a successful Lagos realtor, is swept into a whirlwind romance with Jaiye (James Gardiner), a younger man whose charm masks a darker core. Their marriage quickly unravels as his controlling nature comes to light, exposing layers of deceit, infidelity, and a devastating betrayal in the form of an unauthorised hysterectomy that upends Adaora’s life.
With her world collapsing, Adaora leans on her sisters, Beatrice (Padita Agu) and Cheta (Nancy Isime), as she confronts the wreckage of love gone wrong. The strength of this drama-thriller is that it is both intimate and unsettling, a portrait of manipulation and resilience that asks how much one must lose before reclaiming power.
Watch Devil Is A Liar on Netflix.
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7. Yahoo+ (2022)
Running time: 1h 25m
Director: Ebuka Njoku
Genre: Crime, Thriller
In Ebuka Njoku’s Yahoo+, two struggling actors, Ose (Keezyto) and Abacha (Somadina Adinma), abandon their dreams of stardom for a quicker, darker path: cyber fraud. When the petty scams prove unprofitable, they are drawn deeper into “Yahoo+,” a brutal hybrid of online swindling and ritual sacrifice, orchestrated by the calculating fixer Ikolo (Ken Erics).
Their descent is mirrored by Kamso (Echelon Mbadiwe) and Pino-Pino (Ifeoma Obinwa), young women bound by transactional relationships, each caught in the same web of precarity and compromise. The film plays as a taut morality tale about ambition and desperation in a society where survival itself demands dangerous bargains.
6. The Wildflower (2022)
Running time: 1h 47m
Director: Biodun Stephen
Genre: Drama
Biodun Stephen’s The Wildflower unfolds as a triptych of survival, tracing the lives of three women across generations bound by the shared weight of male violence. Rolake (Damilare Kuku), an ambitious architecture graduate, secures a coveted role under CEO Gowon Williams (Deyemi Okanlawon), only to find her career ambitions thwarted by harassment and assault.
Parallel stories reveal Mama Adaolisa (Toyin Abraham), long scarred by years of domestic abuse, and her daughter, Adaolisa (Sandra Okunzuwa), whose life is upended by the predation of a neighbour. Woven together, their experiences form a sombre meditation on resilience, silence, and the steep cost of confronting power in a society that too often looks away.
Watch The Wildflower on Netflix.
5. Man of God (2022)
Running time: 1h 51m
Director: Bolanle Austen-Peters
Genre: Drama
Bolanle Austen-Peters’s Man of God traces the restless journey of Samuel Obalolu (Akah Nnani), the son of a stern pastor (Jude Chukwuka) whose rigid faith leaves little room for dissent. Escaping to university, Samuel embraces the liberations of youth—music, romance, and a precarious sense of independence—only to find himself pulled back into the very institution he once fled.
Reinvented as a charismatic church leader, Samuel builds a ministry that thrives on spectacle and influence. Yet beneath the prosperity lies a man shadowed by guilt and betrayal, haunted by the choices that delivered him to power. The film becomes less a tale of religious triumph than a portrait of spiritual disquiet, asking what remains when faith is eclipsed by ambition.
4. In Line (2017)
Running time: 1h 55m
Director: Tope Oshin
Genre: Drama
Tope Oshin’s In Line unfolds as a taut marital drama about trust, betrayal, and the scars of past choices. Debo (Uzor Arukwe), recently released from prison, is determined to rebuild his life, but the weight of suspicion lingers. His wife, Kate (Adesua Etomi), has carried the burden in his absence—sustaining his advertising business and preserving the semblance of a shared future.
When paranoia takes hold, Debo enlists the help of a private investigator, Bella (Sika Osei), whose motives prove more ambiguous than expected. What follows is less a story of crime than of erosion—the slow unravelling of intimacy under the strain of secrets and mistrust. In Oshin’s hands, marriage becomes its own kind of prison, where love and loyalty are tested against the darker instincts of fear.
3. Tokunbo (2024)
Running time: 1h 52m
Director: Ramsey Nouah
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Ramsey Nouah’s Tokunbo is a study in desperation and the shadows of past sins. At its centre is Tokunbo (Gideon Okeke), a reformed car smuggler who has traded his outlaw days for the quiet stability of family life. That fragile peace collapses when his young son falls critically ill, pulling him back toward the orbit of Gaza (Chidi Mokeme), the ruthless former boss he had tried to escape.
What begins as a plea for financial salvation spirals into a descent: a perilous assignment to deliver Nike (Darasimi Nnadi), the kidnapped daughter of a government official, into the hands of her captors. Nouah frames Tokunbo’s return to crime less as a heist than as a moral reckoning, in which the cost of survival collides with the price of lost integrity.
2. A Lot Like Love (2023)
Running time: 1h 35m
Director: Shittu Taiwo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
A Lot Like Love begins as a marriage drama and veers, with startling swiftness, into a hostage thriller. Fanna (Rahama Sadau), an industrious heiress, finds her union with Abdul (Ibrahim Suleiman) — her father’s loyal aide — fraying under the weight of her career. Hoping to mend the cracks, her father sends them on a romantic retreat to Turkey.
Instead of reconciliation, they encounter violence: armed men intercept the trip, holding the couple for ransom. Drawn into the crisis are Fanna’s confidante, Sadiya (Sophie Alakija), and her former lover, Mustapha (Gabriel Afolayan), complicating both the negotiations and the emotional stakes.
Beneath its kidnappings and betrayals, the film traces the fragility of love under siege, and the uneasy bargains made in the name of survival.
Watch A Lot Like Love on Netflix.
1. Adire (2023)
Running time: 2h 3m
Director: Adeoluwa Owu
Genre: Drama
Adire situates its heroine at the fault lines of reinvention and repression. Kehinde Bankole plays Adire, a former sex worker who absconds with her boss’s money and resettles in a small Oyo State town. There, she recasts herself as a lingerie designer, working with Yoruba adire cloth to create garments that are at once intimate and subversive. Her craft becomes a quiet revolution, offering women in the community agency.
But empowerment does not come without resistance. Adire’s arrival unsettles the town’s fragile moral order, provoking the ire of the Deaconess (Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi), a church leader who sees in her work both impropriety and competition. As the film unfolds, Adire’s past threatens to encroach, even as the new identity she has stitched together offers the possibility of redemption.
