Acting

Kanayo O. Kanayo

Born 1962-03-01

Acting credits

Blood Money poster
NR

A man loses his bank job and is drawn into the world of rituals where the only way for him is by taking the life of another.

Blood Money

1997

Celebrity Marriage poster
6.0

A celebrity with an abusive husband confides in friends who are dealing with troubling relationship issues of their own.

Celebrity Marriage

2017

No artwork available
NR

A 419 scammer perfects the act of defrauding people to the extent that he becomes a master of the craft, however his refusal to pay his dues to the person that taught him everything leads to his downfall. [parts 1-2]

The Master

2004

Living in Bondage poster
8.0

The film tells the story of a man who joins a secret cult, kills his wife in a ritual sacrifice, gains enormous wealth as a reward, and is afterwards haunted by the dead wife's ghost.

Living in Bondage

1992

Grandpa Must Obey poster
6.5

Left in charge of his energetic grandkids, Mr Okafor faces more chaos than he bargained for. But as the little troublemakers turn his world upside down, they teach him about forgiveness, hope, and the true meaning of family.

Grandpa Must Obey

2025

The Drug Lord - The Journalist poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Drug Lord - The Journalist

2023

Lionheart poster
6.1

In 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

Saint Siméon poster
NR

A tightly woven short drama set in Nigeria, Saint Siméon follows a character portrayed by Nollywood legend Kanayo O. Kanayo as he confronts the tensions between tradition, familial duty, and generational change. Through emotional interplay and cultural symbolism, the story captures the pressures facing a community at a crossroads.

Saint Siméon

2025

Nneka the Pretty Serpent poster
NR

Nneka possesses supernatural powers which she uses to perpetuate evil; her aim is to seduce prominent married men in order to take their money and souls.

Nneka the Pretty Serpent

1994

No artwork available
NR

Charles Omokwe is released from jail after serving just 13 months of a 7-year prison sentence for a failed heist. Realizing he was betrayed by his employer; he plots his revenge to steal the artifact while staying a step ahead of the law.

Charlie and the Boys

2023

When Men Promise poster
NR

A man believes the only way to keep his wife under check is by getting her pregnant yearly to keep men away from her. In her grit to fight back, she has to avoid getting pregnant.

When Men Promise

October 1 poster
6.0

September 1960. As Nigeria prepares for independence from the British, a seasoned police detective rushes to find the serial killer slaughtering its native young women.

October 1

2014

No artwork available
NR

Two underprivileged Nigerian women in their mid-thirties struggling to survive in the inner-city ghetto of Lagos, dream of relocating to America by any means necessary.

American Japa

2024

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free poster
3.5

Nnamdi Okeke son of Andy Okeke from Living In Bondage 1 is an ambitious young man who wants more out of life. Snag is, he can’t afford the kind of life he wants with.....

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free

2019

No artwork available
NR

THE ALMAJIRI is a movie that is based on true stories as it affects millions of children in Nigeria and other countries who are victims of trafficking and other forms of child slavery as we saw with Nafisat and Salihu, two young children who were separated from their parents from childhood by the cruel business of Alhaji Makarfi. The gullible villagers believe him, love him and even revere him higher than the chiefs in the North. He is showered with gifts, praise, some villagers even go the extra mile to sell their valuables to offer him bribes just to get their wards enlisted for his scholarship scheme, unknown to them that none of their children ever gets to see the wall of a school let alone have the liberty of pursuing a trade. They are beaten, brainwashed and force to become prostitutes, suicide bombers and ALMAJIRIS.

Almajiri

2022

No artwork available
NR

Following the story of three kids, the film explores the impact of an unstable marriage on the lives of children's development.

Kids Are Angry

2001

No artwork available
NR

Shamans launch an all-out attack on the saved.

Occultic Battle

2005

No artwork available
NR

Mozumba claims he is God and the savior of mankind. He grows his followers and in status till he is faced with the reality of his limitations.

Holy Crime

1999

Bank Alert poster
NR

A down on his luck (50s), former banker gets the shock of his life when he discovers N500 million naira in his dormant bank account, an immediate target is set on his back when he withdraws the money.

Bank Alert

2023

Billionaire's Club 2 poster
10.0

"The continuing story of a secret society that uses occult powers for personal gain."

Billionaire's Club 2

2003

Double Dekoi poster
NR

When Amanda, a determined young woman, infiltrates the dangerous criminal organization Double Dekoi to clear her brother's name of murder, she recruits a mismatched team, navigating a treacherous world of drug and human trafficking.

Double Dekoi

2023

No artwork available
NR

Michael struggles to vanquish the ghost of his mother and meet his corpse quota in the Vulture money cult.

Blood Money 2

1997

No artwork available
8.0

Major Dubem is a prince from the east and a soldier who serves in the northern part of Nigeria before the war started between them. His father the king, refused to accept Habiba as Dubem’s though she is pregnant for him.

Across the Niger

2004

No artwork available
NR

Following a party hosted by wealthy Chief Onwa, Silas decides that he will do whatever it takes to become rich, and becomes involved with a cult calling themselves "The Sacred Order of the Love of Money".

The Sacred Order of Money

2006