Patrick Shai
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Life, Above All
Overview: A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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The Bone Snatcher
Overview: After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-23
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Place of Weeping
Overview: When a farm worker is killed a journalist working in a nearby area investigates the murder
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-05
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Hearts & Minds
Overview: In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.
Genres: Drama Thriller Documentary Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-29
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Fools
Overview: Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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Blind Justice
Overview: Intrigue and injustice in Rhodesia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Taxi to Soweto
Overview: A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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Schweitzer
Overview: The story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-10
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Danger Zone
Overview: Rick Morgan, an American engineer who runs a mine in East Africa, is approached one day by his friend Jim Scott, who needs someplace to store canisters of toxic waste. Unfortunately, a spill occurs a short time later, resulting in deaths and Morgan having to leave the country. A year later, he is approached by a government agent looking for a missing supply of potentially hazardous poison, which in truth hides something even more valuable.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Discreet
Overview: Monique, a high class escort, has always been able to give her clients exactly what they want, while clean cut Thomas has always been exactly what everyone has expected. But tonight Thomas' curiosity is going to get the better of him while demanding of Monique the one thing she's reluctant to offer. Honesty, costs more.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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The Land of Dreams
Overview: Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-08
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Critical Assignment
Overview: The President of an African country decrees that the Arms budget will be diverted in to the "Water For All", project. The journalist, Michael Power, discovers a Coup set by the arms dealers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Red Scorpion
Overview: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
Genres: Adventure Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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Inside
Overview: A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-25
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Overview: A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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