Must watch this weekend

This weekend's list starts close to home. A film set in 1990s Nairobi opens in cinemas across East Africa, South Africa's favourite chaos franchise gets a Diwali edition, and Netflix has a Korean horror series and a Spanish heist thriller ready for Halloween weekend. Here's what to watch, where, and why.

1. 01

   Call Me Queen

   Eliane Umuhire, Denise Gough

   In cinemas in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda · from Friday 30 October

   Emily Atef's film is set in Nairobi in the 1990s, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Eliane Umuhire plays Queen, a Rwandan single mother living in Korogocho, who goes to work for Anna, an international journalist played by Denise Gough. What starts as a job becomes a friendship, and when Queen learns she is HIV-positive, her fight to survive turns into a wider fight for access to life-saving medicine.

   Dominic West, Danny Sapani and Charlie Carrick co-star, alongside a Kenyan cast that includes Nice Githinji, Michelle Tiren and Eddie Kimani. The film had its Kenyan premiere at the NBO Film Festival on 17 October. If you can't get to a cinema, it streams on YAKWETU from 13 November.

2. 02

   How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents

   Rosemary Zimu-Mngani, Kyle Clark

   Netflix · from Friday 30 October

   The South African How To Ruin franchise, created by Rethabile Ramaphakela, is back with a Diwali spin-off. Perfectionist Mmabatho, played by Rosemary Zimu-Mngani, wants nothing more than to win over the family of her fiancé, Varshen (Kyle Clark), over a Diwali weekend.

   Then she accidentally exposes her future father-in-law's secret affair, and every attempt to fix it makes things worse. Sonia Mbele and Meshack Mavuso play Mmabatho's parents, with Jailoshini Naidoo and Denise Zimba also in the cast.

3. 03

   Dead-End Job

   Lee Jae Wook

   Netflix · from Friday 30 October

   Lee Jae Wook plays Hyeok Jun, a young man buried in debt who signs up for part-time work through a mysterious staffing agency. The pay is too good to turn down. The jobs, it turns out, throw him into one strange and life-threatening situation after another.

   Go Min Si plays an investigator looking into what is going on at the agency, Kim Min Ha plays Hyeok Jun's younger sister, and Lee Hee Joon plays the man running the agency. All eight episodes land at once, so it's a full Halloween-weekend binge.

4. 04

   Collision Course

   Laia Costa

   Netflix · from Friday 30 October

   A crew robs a bank in Madrid during Spain's financial crisis. It should be a simple job, but the getaway goes wrong, and from there the heist becomes a game of lies, betrayal and survival, with every thief's hidden side coming out.

   Laia Costa leads this Spanish thriller, with Karra Elejalde, Luis Zahera, Tamar Novas, Álvaro Cervantes and Lluís Homar.