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The King Is Alive
Overview: Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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Paradise Stop
Overview: An honest, South African cop must blur the lines of right and wrong when a businessman -- his best friend -- pulls off a string of freeway heists.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-26
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State of Violence
Overview: When the wife of a successful black businessman with roots in the struggle against apartheid is murdered by a young stranger who knows his name, he has to go back into his own past to find the answers that will lead him to the killer. But when he finds him and the reasons for the murder, will vengeance still be possible?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-11
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Seconds
Overview: Follows the story of Seconds Khumalo, a retiring boxer from the East Rand preparing for his final fight. Seconds is left to train under Jerry van Tonder, an ill-equipped 32 year-old daddy's boy, his father Pa van Tonder trained Second for years but after the family feels threatened that an unspoken contract might be broken, they are left with no choice but to end matters on their own terms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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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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A Reasonable Man
Overview: With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Elelwani
Overview: Elelwani is a young university-educated woman who has been brought up in an environment steeped in tradition. Her parents have promised her hand in marriage to the Vendaking and, as a dutiful daughter, she wants to obey their wishes. But in order to fulfil her promise, Elelwani must abandon her dreams of travel, further education and – most importantly – her commitment to her one true love.
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Original Language: ve
Release Date: 2012-07-19
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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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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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A Small Town Called Descent
Overview: Somewhere in a remote part of South Africa a heinous crime is committed. Against the backdrop of xenophobic riots that have swept across the country, two Zimbabwean brothers along with a local girl are brutally attacked. The older brother is burnt alive whilst his younger sibling and the girl are sodomised, raped and left for dead. Three investigators from the elite crime fighting unit known as the Scorpions are deployed to a small town called Descent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-30
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Mrs Mandela
Overview: How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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A United Kingdom
Overview: The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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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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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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Eye in the Sky
Overview: A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-07
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Kini & Adams
Overview: Kini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-10
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Eje
Overview: A young lady baby sits for a mysterious woman and wakes up in a hospital with vivid memories of an occurrence she can't prove happened. It's left to an equally mysterious chain smoking detective to find out the truth. What happened? Did it happen?
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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Sniper: The Last Stand
Overview: To stop an arms dealer from unleashing a deadly superweapon, Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero are deployed to Costa Verde to lead a group of elite soldiers against an unrelenting militia. Taking an untested sniper under his wing, Beckett faces his newest challenge: giving orders instead of receiving them. With both time and ammo running low in a race to save humanity, the team must overcome all odds just to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-21
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