Louw Venter
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Biography: Louw Venter is an actor and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 16, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Crazy Monkey Presents Straight Outta Benoni
Overview: Brendan and Gavin have got twenty-four hours to achieve overnight success, and nothing can stop them... Except maybe themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-01
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Seal Team
Overview: After his best friend is killed in a shark attack, Quinn, a lovable yet tenacious seal assembles a SEAL TEAM to fight back against a gang of sharks overtaking the neighborhood. But this merry band of international seals are not at all trained for such a mission. They seek the help of a much more skillful combatant, Claggart, but even his tricks and flips can’t whip these guys into shape. However, with a little bit of ingenuity, intelligence and a lot of heart, our SEAL TEAM may actually be able to bring peace back to their undersea community.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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Hond se Dinges
Overview: A mad-cap Afrikaans comedy set in a small town on the platteland. The plot revolves around a dog, and a diamond, and the assorted people who would like very much to get their hands on that diamond.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Just Now Jeffrey
Overview: A coming of age movie the world has never seen While South Africa battles through civil unrest and the final days of apartheid, Jeffrey Greenbaum battles through his raging hormones and the final days of high school. Will he be able to lose his virginity before the country goes up in flames?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-03
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Semi-Soet
Overview: Jaci van Jaarsveld will do everything in her power to stop the advertising company where she works to be taken over by a ruthless businessman known as 'The Jackal'. Her only hope for a big contract to save their company is a wine estate that markets wines to international markets. Easier said than done, especially if the winegrower requires the person to promote his wine to be in an established relationship. In desperation Jaci decided to hire a model pretending to be her fiance. She took the first attractive man walking through their offices send by the modeling agency. Everything seems to be going smooth with the meeting with the winegrower until he invites Jaci and her fiance to visit the winery for the weekend and to compete against their opposition for the contract. And who is the opposition? Jaci's ex-fiance, Mark Rossouw. Just when Jaci think she’s in full control she realized that her ‘fiance’, JP, is the very 'Jackal' who tried to sink their company.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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The Last Tango
Overview: The story revolves around a 34-year old, workaholic detective who is burnt out, having immersed himself in an investigation involving the ruthless murder of nine girls. He managed to capture the killer, but his emotions get the better of him, possibly jeopardising the trial. His boss sends him away to cool down, and he ends up in a small town in the middle of the Karoo. Here, he meets a passionate and beautiful woman who is dying of cancer. His only goal is to fight boredom until he is allowed to resume his detective duties, while her dying wish is to dance one last tango before her life is over. He reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile the murderer wakes from his sedation and puts his plan for revenge into motion
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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Jimmy in Pink
Overview: Jimmy in Pienk is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation "mielie" farmer. Jimmy’s father suddenly dies in a freak accident, he is confronted by two loan sharks who come to collect what his father owes. Jimmy gathers the courage to leave his home and travel to Cape Town to seek help from his uncle, and he is not prepared for what awaits him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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Konfetti
Overview: Jean and Sheryl are getting married. He is Afrikaans. She is Jewish. Their families are tense and Lukas, the best man - has been on a drinking spree and forgotten to confirm the band. To complicate matters more, the ancestral ring has been delayed because Sheryl's relatives are lost en-route to the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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The Piano Player
Overview: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-06
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Alles Wat Mal Is
Overview: Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged their passionate relationship for a permanent seize-fire. The once uninhibited and vibrant journalist is now just a few fading photographs on the wall. And then, her world is shattered when Gustav apparently starts an affair with the very big investor who just might be the savior of his company – Elzaan Mostert. Enter Helena’s alter ego, the can-do, let’s-make-a-plan, nothing-is-impossible younger version of herself. Alter Ego comes up with the idea of starting a blog called Alles wat Mal is (Everything Crazy), documenting Helena’s hectic life, and her quest to win back Gustav’s affection, and put a spark back into her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Wild Is the Wind
Overview: When two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Love the One You Love
Overview: Across the city of Cape Town, a sex-line operator, a dog handler and a computer technician begin to suspect that their romantic relationships are the subject of a bizarre conspiracy, involving their family, friends, and possibly even greater forces. 'Love the One You Love's parallel stories question the ideals we hold too sacred: love, happiness, and the New South Africa; the pursuit of which makes truth impossible.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Smile! you're on Skellum camera
Overview: This locally-made South African film is a collection of candid-camera style skits designed to trap the unwary for the enjoyment of the audience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Hollywood in my House
Overview: Hollywood in my Huis is 'n coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of 2004's matric dance in South Africa. The story focuses on an ordinary teenage girl - Jana van Tonder - who lives in an impoverished railway neighborhood with her dysfunctional parents. When she witnesses Charlize Theron's iconic Oscar win, Jana is inspired to transform her upcoming matric dance into her very own Hollywood Red Carpet mooment. Meanwhile, Jana's secret cursh, Brandon, the school's tennis champ, breaks off his relationship with Angelique, the school's most popular girl. But just as Jana needs to scrape together the courage to ask Brandon to the dance, her best friend and boy-next-door, Frikkie, reveals his true feelings for her. With the matric dance less than a month away, Jana has to make the difficult decision between her closest friend and her dream date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Kite
Overview: When Sawa's mother and policeman father are found victims of a grisly double homicide, she begins a ruthless pursuit for the man who murdered them. With the help of her father's ex-partner, Karl Aker, and a mysterious friend from her past, she becomes a merciless teen assassin, blasting her way through the dark world of human trafficking only to uncover a devastating truth
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-13
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Som van Twee
Overview: Henk is an experienced psychologist, but after the loss of his wife, Nicolene, he is powerless to help himself. He also can’t get through to his son, Renier, who hides his pain behind anger and denial. During Nicolene’s funeral, Henk confesses that he had once leaked the matric math exam paper to the entire town of Barberton. An investigation follows, and the whole class of 1990 must either retake the exam or lose their matric certificate. Henk asks Renier to tutor him, but it’s a struggle. His old classmates are furious about the trouble he has caused. Things spiral out of control, forcing Henk to make an impossible choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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Hoener Met Die Rooi Skoene
Overview: A Horror comedy with unexpected twists in an equally strange cable ... and an outright lie only be returned by the end neck.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Mystery
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
Overview: Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Van der Merwe
Overview: Van der Merwe, a bumbling farmer from a traditional Afrikaans family, struggles to keep his family together when his daughter returns from England with her British fiancé and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-28
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Apocalypse Now Now
Overview: Snarky, monster-porn-dealing teen, Baxter Zevcenko, might be a serial killer. His girlfriend, Esme, is missing, and he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he’ll turn to Cape Town’s grizzliest, drunkest bounty hunter, Jackson ‘Jackie’ Ronin. Little does he know that Ronin is a supernatural bounty-hunter, and that he’s about to be dragged headlong into a deep, dark Cape Town underbelly full of monsters and myth, shadowy government forces, bloodthirsty crow-men and a conspiracy across time and space.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-29
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Camp Grounds
Overview: The Fouchés, an Afrikaans family, arrive at the ATKV Buffelspoort resort for the holidays, only to find that their regular caravan spot has been taken over by the Khumalos. Much hilarity ensues as the two families engage in madcap tit-for-tat exchanges and shenanigans. Meanwhile the owner of the site is hoping to gain an extra star on his rating, with inspections due shortly. The last thing he needs is the chaos of two families fighting
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Once Upon a Road Trip
Overview: Sean's death leaves behind a twin brother, a lover and a good friend. His last will and testament insists that the three get together on a road trip to plant a cross where he died and also to try and get along. His twin brother had for years distanced himself from them because he did not approve of his brother's cabaret lifestyle and the friends he kept. They set off on a road trip through Southern Africa to perform tasks laid down in the will in order to inherit from the estate. They also have to do one final task of performing as a trio, the 'Manginas' for one last show with the twin brother taking his brothers part as a drag artist.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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Berserker: Hell's Warrior
Overview: Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker. The enmity between Barek and the witch extends to the present day in his attempts to become mortal again and break Odin's curse.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove
Overview: After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy--and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Indemnity
Overview: An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Semi-Soeter
Overview: Sequel to the romantic comedy film - Semi-Soet
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: af
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