Marcel Van Heerden
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: 南非
Birthday: February 19, 1952
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Gender: Male
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White Wedding
Overview: A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Lipstiek Dipstiek
Overview: The story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while working on his car and lands in hospital a few days before he is to marry the virgin Martie. This is the first mishap in a series of disasters and misunderstandings that provides many belly-clutching laughs. As Poenie's father Frikadel (Zak du Plessis) puts it, "Die seun sit sy voet uit die voordeur uit en dan is hy kniediep in die kak!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1994-11-25
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Steel Dawn
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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The Brotherhood
Overview: For generations lions have ruled over the Londolozi region of Mpumalanga but one brotherhood reigns supreme: a coalition of two brothers descendent from a long dynasty. To get to the top they have hunted, fought and won many battles. This film follows this Brotherhood as they conquer prides, kill rivals and continue their bloodline guaranteeing their genes are firmly entrenched in future generations to come.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Visual Bible: Matthew
Overview: The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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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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Mapantsula
Overview: A petty gangster inevitably becomes involved in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and is forced to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zu
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Overview: We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1992-04-16
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Max and Mona
Overview: Max Bua leaves his country life behind in hopes of becoming a doctor in Johannesburg, though the big city has different plans for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Traitors
Overview: During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating further in the war. The decision leads to a treason trial for him and his sons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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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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Jump the Gun
Overview: Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-23
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Durban Poison
Overview: Twenty seven years after his UCLA graduate thesis film Shot Down was banned in his home country and went on to festival acclaim and cult status, writer-director Andrew Worsdale returns with this noir romance set among the marginalised white underclass. The film follows a police investigation into four murders and charts the doomed romance of the outlaw lovers. A deeply romantic, elegiac and universal crime story where the murders are not the point of the movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-21
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Savage Encounter
Overview: A honeymooning couple take a vacation in a remote country bungalow. Before long, they’re visited by two backwoods psychos. Terror, assault, and rape are inevitable. The U.S. video release from Genesis (released in 1988 under the title DEMON LUST) is missing ten minutes.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Fourth Reich
Overview: Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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Molly & Wors The Movie
Overview: Based on the Afrikaans TV series by the same name, this comedy comes to the big screen. The plot-line is rather convoluted as befits a farce, and sees the main characters get themselves into serious troubles before everything works out like it is supposed to.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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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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Pad Na Jou Hart
Overview: Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: Timeless tale of Beauty and the Beast set in the period of the Vikings. Freya, a warrior and the beautiful daughter of a Viking king, is held prisoner on an island castle by a Beast whom has been cursed by his god Odin.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-18
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A Paw-Paw For My Darling
Overview: This local ensemble comedy is set in 2003, as a group of working-class South Africans try to come to terms with their changed society. Seen through the eyes of a family dog, we watch as friends, neighbours and lovers try to deal with their challenging relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-01-08
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The Pro
Overview: The Pro tells the story of a young surfer, Tiaan Nothnagel that has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Dirkie Lawrence just before their last year at school.After Dirkie’s death, Tiaan swears off surfing for good, as he can’t stand to be reminded of everything that he and Dirkie shared. But then, Dirkie’s twin sister (who went to live with their dad after their parents split up the previous year) arrives in town on a mission: to be selected to go on Wave-Seekers, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Tiaan and Dirkie dreamt of doing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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Night of the Cyclone
Overview: A big city police lieutenant travels to the tropics to find his daughter, who he finds involved with a very suspicious artist.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-28
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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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Krotoa
Overview: Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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In a Time of Violence: The Line
Overview: This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Shepherds and Butchers
Overview: A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-12
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The Outcast
Overview: A powerful story of three brothers who live by the axe; love from the heart; lust and hate with passion and die violently!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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Punk in Africa
Overview: Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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Hostage
Overview: The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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The Flyer
Overview: The past and present collide when a kid from the mean streets of Cape Town is inducted into the gravity defying world of flying trapeze.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-08
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Nag van die 19de
Overview: Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her wedding and her fiancé committed suicide. Piece-by-piece, she gathers information about the identity of the rapist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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Hijack Stories
Overview: A young Soweto actor joins a gang to study up and be more convincing in a gangster role he wants.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-03
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