Top 5 best Nollywood movies 2022

                     Top 5 best Nollywood movies 2022

Never being a lover of Nollywood movies, I would never pick up the remote and tune in for a Nigerian movie. I would never choose to watch it someplace else because most of the films we were used to seeing as children in the ’90s were all about witches, mud homes, and wicked step-mothers, and little did we know that it had an adverse effect on our perception of Nollywood at large. But straight away, the narrative has changed. and we can’t talk more of the standard of Nollywood stepping up without mentioning Netflix.

Netflix began streaming services in Nigeria in 2016 at the time it started expanding to 130 countries. one of the first Nigerian films to be streamed on the platform was Fifty, directed by Biyi Bandele of Ebony Life Studios. Netflix Naija was formed some years later in 2020, when the streaming service opened an office in Nigeria, purchased Genevieve Nnaji's 2018 film Lionheart, and started commissioning its own original productions. It's reasonable to mention that several people saw these events as positive indicators for Nollywood. Nigerian filmmakers, for example, will have access to a worldwide platform. Nigerians within the Diaspora will finally be ready to access content from their homeland. The prevailing consensus was that Netflix will improve Nollywood's quality.

Here is the list of the top 5 Nollywood movies according to Netflix:

1.      Omo Ghetto: The Saga

After a theatrical release in 2020, Omo Ghetto: The Saga premiered on Netflix on September 10, 2021. The two-hour film shattered records in Nigeria's Nollywood entertainment sector, and we absolutely understand why.

The film was ranked amongst the top ten most-watched movies for ten weeks in a row, a tribute to its box office success haven been the highest-grossing Nollywood film with over N635 million.

2.      King of Boys: The return of the King

The highly anticipated King of Boys: The Return of the King was published on Friday, August 27, 2021, after great anticipation.

Sola Sobowale starred because the lead character and antagonist in the film, which was produced and directed by Kemi Adetiba and generated plenty of buzz on social media, with Sobowale appearing in a number of snippets and social media influencers doing skits mimicking her "welcome to the new dispensation."

3.      Namaste Wahala

Namaste Wahala, which translates to Hello Trouble in English, is a 2020 Nigerian cross-cultural romance comedy film produced, written, and directed by Hamisha Daryani Ahuja. Ini Dima-Okojie and Ruslaan Mumtaz play the key characters in this amazing film.

This film has been touted because it’s the first major collaboration between Bollywood and Nollywood, two of the world's most powerful film industries.

4.      This Lady called Life

This Lady Called Life could be a 2020 Nigerian romance drama directed by Kayode Kasum and written by Toluwani Obayan. Lota Chukwu, Bisola Aiyeola, and Wale Ojo play the key characters within the film.

The 120-minute film follows Aiye (Bisola Aiyeola), a young single mother who is battling to maintain up with the escalating expense of life in Lagos. She works incredibly hard to run a small business that merely allows her to survive comfortably, but not luxuriously, while she strives to become a legendary chef after being rejected by her family.

5.      A Naija Christmas

A Naija Christmas is a 2021 Nigerian Christmas film directed by Kunle Afolayan and starring Abayomi Alvin, Kunle Remi, Efa Iwara, and also the late Rachel Oniga, who died just weeks before the film's release on December 16, 2021, on Netflix. it is the first Nigerian Christmas movie to be released on Netflix.