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Movies: Best Movies shot in South Africa

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Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)

3.8/5 (with 10,255 votes)

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 10,956 votes)

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

Blended(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 1,524 votes)

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknown to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families. They and their children are forced to share the same suite and participate in a slew of family activities together, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.

Dredd(2012)

R
| 1h 35min | Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 2,226 votes)

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

Blood Diamond(2006)

R
| 2h 23min | Drama, Thriller, Action
3.8/5 (with 3,348 votes)

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

The Giver(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 2,074 votes)

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

District 9(2009)

R
| 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.

Chronicle(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 24min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 2,378 votes)

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Death Race 2(2010)

2.9/5 (with 488 votes)

In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to survive a twisted race against an army of hardened criminals and tricked-out cars.

The Last House on the Left(2009)

R
| 1h 50min | Crime, Thriller, Horror, Drama
3.2/5 (with 756 votes)

A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.

The Ghost and the Darkness(1996)

R
| 1h 49min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 419 votes)

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 252 votes)

The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: becoming the formidable warrior king of an ancient desert empire.

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Home Alone 4(2002)

PG
| 1h 24min | Comedy, Kids & Family, TV Movie
2.3/5 (with 543 votes)

Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.

Grimsby(2016)

R
| 1h 23min | Action, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1,014 votes)

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

Safe House(2012)

R
| 1h 55min | Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 1,663 votes)

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Racing Stripes(2005)

PG
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 261 votes)

Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

The Gods Must Be Crazy(1980)

PG
| 1h 49min | Action, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 491 votes)

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

The Salvation(2014)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 364 votes)

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Sniper: Reloaded(2011)

R
| 1h 31min | War, Action, Thriller, Drama
3.0/5 (with 80 votes)

Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's star Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.

Zulu(1964)

NR
| 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 Dinosaur Project(2012)

1h 23min | Adventure, Action, Horror
2.8/5 (with 123 votes)

Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.

Directed by Sid Bennett - With Richard Dillane

Invictus(2009)

PG-13
| 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.

Dhoom 2(2006)

PG-13
| 2h 27min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 98 votes)

Jai and Ali return, this time on the trail of an international thief who steals priceless artifacts and has chosen Mumbai as his next target.

The Good Lie(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 222 votes)

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

Prey(2007)

2.9/5 (with 148 votes)

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

Directed by Darrell Roodt - With Carly Schroeder, Peter Weller, Bridget Moynahan, Ashley Taylor

Eye in the Sky(2016)

R
| 1h 42min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.5/5 (with 687 votes)

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.

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

PG
| 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

Yankee Zulu(1993)

1h 40min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.

Tiger House(2015)

R
| 1h 20min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 122 votes)

A young gymnast battles a group of bank robbers at the home of her boyfriend.

Directed by Thomas Daley

Kite(2014)

R
| 1h 30min | Drama, Action
2.2/5 (with 103 votes)

When Sawa's mother and policeman father are found victims of a grisly double homicide, she begins a ruthless pursuit for the man who murdered them. With the help of her father's ex-partner, Karl Aker, and a mysterious friend from her past, she becomes a merciless teen assassin, blasting her way through the dark world of human trafficking only to uncover a devastating truth.

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