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District 9(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,205 votes)

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

Invictus(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 1,861 votes)

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

24 Hours to Live(2017)

3.0/5 (with 286 votes)

An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

Breaker Morant(1980)

1h 47min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 57 votes)

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

My Octopus Teacher(2020)

1h 24min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 369 votes)

After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.

Directed by Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed

Cry Freedom(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 37min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 83 votes)

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Zulu(1964)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 18min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 209 votes)

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

The Bang Bang Club(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.

Shepherds and Butchers(2017)

1h 46min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Searching for Sugar Man(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 25min | Music, Documentary
3.9/5 (with 395 votes)

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. The film won Best Documentary at the 85th Academy Awards.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 21min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 235 votes)

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

Flatfoot in Africa(1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 55min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 68 votes)

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

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Blue Crush 2(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 53min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 46 votes)

Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jefferys Bay.

Sarafina!(1992)

3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

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.

Catch a Fire(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 51 votes)

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

Goodbye Bafana(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 55min | History, Drama
3.4/5 (with 68 votes)

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Stander(2003)

1h 56min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 45 votes)

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove(2010)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 15min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

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.

Directed by Will Geiger - With Beau Bridges, Bindi Irwin, Matthew Kennedy, Bruce A. Young

The Naked Prey(1965)

1h 36min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 38 votes)

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.

Duma(2005)

3.7/5 (with 82 votes)

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

Moffie(2020)

1h 44min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) follows the story of Nicholas van der Swart: from a very young age, he realises he is different. Try as he may, he cannot live up to the macho image expected of him by his family, by his heritage. Set during the South African border war against communism, this is a long-overdue story about the emotional and physical suffering endured by countless young men.

Directed by Judy Naidoo

The Three Investigators and The Secret Of Skeleton Island(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 31min | Mystery, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 28 votes)

In "The Three Investigators and The Secret of Skeleton Island" the cult detective trio from Rocky Beach, California, fall into a breath-taking mixture of adventure, thriller and mystery. Only by a hairs-breadth did they escape with their lives after the successful completion of their last case.

Directed by Florian Baxmeyer

Five Fingers for Marseilles(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 1min | Western, Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.

Directed by Michael Matthews - With Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dhlamini, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, ...

Beauty(2011)

1h 41min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus - With Deon Lotz

Another Day of Life(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Animation, Documentary, History
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned….

Black Venus(2010)

2h 39min | History, Drama
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

The true story of Saartjes Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

8(2020)

1h 39min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.

Directed by Harold Holscher

Love on Safari(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 24min | TV Movie, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

An American web designer inherits an animal reserve in South Africa. A no-nonsense ranger takes her on a safari in hopes that she will fall in love with the land, the animals and him.

Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls(2008)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Action
1.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Directed by Mark Atkins - With Sean Michael

Poena Is Koning(2007)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Poena is Koning follows the sexual awakening of Poena Pieterse and his high school buddy Vaatjie, who have decided that they have to lose their virginity by the time they finish school. But they've picked the worst moment to embark on their sexual escapade – it's matric exam time and their quest results in major distractions from their studies. The consequences are dire.

Directed by Willie Esterhuizen
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