Mary Twala
Also Known As: Mary Mhlongo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Soweto, South Africa
Birthday: September 14, 1939
Deathday: July 04, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ghost Son
Overview: A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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Malunde
Overview: Post-apartheid South Africa is the setting for this drama about a mismatched twosome who end up together on a life-altering journey to Cape Town. Polar opposites Kobus (Ian Roberts), a white ex-soldier who struggles with demons from his past, and Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa), a young black street kid who clings to memories of his family, come together to take on the society that has cast them aside and eventually build a friendship for the ages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Beat the Drum
Overview: Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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Lucky
Overview: A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Black Cat
Overview: South African Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zu
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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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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You're My Favourite Place
Overview: Nelisa Vena’s life has never been the same since the death of her sister Anathi. On the last day of their high school careers, she and three friends from a township in East London, South Africa, embark on a life-defining road trip by stealing a taxi and heading to the remote landmark of Hole in the Wall, where Xhosa legend has it you can talk to the dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Leading Lady
Overview: An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's interaction with the quirky small town citizens and the stubborn Kobus, teaches her that: "there is more to life than lights... camera... and action!"
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-07
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Black Is King
Overview: This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-30
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Sarafina!
Overview: The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Genres: Music Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
Overview: Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-14
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Time
Overview: Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bm
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Dark Tower
Overview: A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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The Imposter
Overview: In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
Genres: Documentary Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-13
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Frank and Fearless
Overview: In an attempt to stop rhino poaching, railway chef Sonny Frank and a ten year old boy called Fearless kidnap the ambassador of a South-East Asian country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Overview: Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: st
Release Date: 2020-06-17
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Wonderboy For President
Overview: "Wonder Boy for President," tells a story of a charismatic young man from the Eastern Cape who is coerced into running for president by two corrupt characters. It is a political satire that delves into political dynamics and challenges that arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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