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.

The Shadowed Mind

1988

English

4.6

♡ 4

Cedric Sundstrom Director

Towje Kleiner as Dr. Dieter Hildesheimer

David Hannay as Gantry

Marvin Trump as Nelson

Simon Sabela as The General

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.

Winnie

2017

English

6.3

♡ 4

78%

Pascale Lamche Director

Nelson Mandela as Self

Teboho Murdoch as Self

Niel Barnard as Self - former head of South Africa's National Intelligence Service

George Bizos as Self - lawyer

While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.

Love on Safari

2018

English

6.6

♡ 6

57%

Leif Bristow Director

Brittany Bristow as Ally Botsman

Patrick Lyster as Glen Wood

Lacey Chabert as Kira Slater Jon Cor

Jon Cor as Tom Anderson

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.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

2013

English

7.1

♡ 45

61%

Justin Chadwick Director

Nelson Mandela as Himself

Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela

Elizabeth Taylor as Self

Naomie Harris as Winnie Madikizela

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.

A World Apart

1988

English

7.0

♡ 3

91%

johannesburg south africa

johannesburg, south africa

south africa

Chris Menges Director

Tim Roth as Harold

Adrian Dunbar as Le Roux

Jodhi May as Molly Roth

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Harris

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?

Goodbye Bafana

2007

English

7.1

♡ 2

41%

Bille August Director

Diane Kruger as Gloria Gregory

Joseph Fiennes as James Gregory

Dennis Haysbert as Nelson Mandela

Eduan van Jaarsveldt as Sgt Chris Brits

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.

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

2019

English

7.5

♡ 1

83%

Mads Brügger Director

John F. Kennedy as Self

Mads Brügger as Self

Desmond Tutu as Self

Dag Hammarskjöld as Self

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

Endgame

2009

English

6.2

♡ 2

71%

political negotiations

south africa

Pete Travis Director

Matthew Marsh as F.W. de Klerk

Timothy West as P.W. Botha

David Tennant as Self - Host

Langley Kirkwood as Warrant Officer Jack Swart

The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.

Duma

2005

English

7.1

♡ 4

95%

Carroll Ballard Director

Hope Davis as Kristin

Campbell Scott as Peter

Eamonn Walker as Ripkuna

André Stolz as Xan's Teacher

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

Yesterday

2004

Zulu

7.5

♡ 9

93%

johannesburg south africa

johannesburg, south africa

mine

south africa

Darrell Roodt Director

Kenneth Khambula as John Khumalo

Nandi Nyembe as Sangoma in village

Matthew Monika as Security guard

Leleti Khumalo as Yesterday Khumalo

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Five Fingers for Marseilles

2017

English

6.1

♡ 2

76%

Michael Matthews Director

Anthony Oseyemi as Congo

Jerry Mofokeng as Jonah

Mduduzi Mabaso as Luyanda

Kenneth Fok as Wei

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.

The Crusade

2021

French

5.5

♡ 1

protecting the environment

Sci-Fi

south africa

Louis Garrel Director

Louis Garrel as Abel

Clémence Jeanguillaume as Audrey Lhomond

Oumy Bruni Garrel as Jeune activiste

Laetitia Casta as Marianne

Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet.

Mrs Mandela

6.4

winnie madikizela-mandela

Michael Samuels Director

Tongayi Chirisa as Arguing husband

David Morrissey as Maj. Theunis Swanepoel

Jakkie Groenewald as Prison Officer Gregory

Sophie Okonedo as Winnie Mandela

How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

Black Venus

2010

French

6.8

♡ 6

100%

Abdellatif Kechiche Director

Ralph Amoussou as Harry, le premier domestique

Andre Jacobs as Hendrick Caezar

Elina Löwensohn as Jeanne

Guillaume Verdier as Le premier client

The true story of Saartje 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.

The Wound

2017

Xhosa

6.8

♡ 4

John Trengove Director

Anga Ntsepe as Lesego

Loyiso 'Lloyd' Ngqayana as Vija's Initiate

Hellman Hlomuka as Vija's Initiate

Zimi Banisi as Vija's Initiate

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.

Kill and Kill Again

1981

English

4.9

♡ 6

42%

Ivan Hall Director

Ken Gampu as Gorilla

Anneline Kriel as Kandy Kane

Ron Smerczak as Marduks guard

Ursula Vermeulen as Marduk's Lady

Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1951

English

7.0

♡ 7

92%

65%

Action

apartheid

based on novel or book

Drama

johannesburg south africa

minister

pre-unix

south africa

Zoltan Korda Director

Geoffrey Keen as Father Vincent

Joyce Carey as Margaret Jarvis

Michael Goodliffe as Martens

Sidney Poitier as Reverend Msimangu

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

Mia and the White Lion

2018

French

6.5

♡ 56

88%

football (soccer) fan

Gilles de Maistre Director

Mélanie Laurent as Alice Owen

Brandon Auret as Dirk

Tessa Jubber as Enclosure Hunter

Langley Kirkwood as John Owen

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Breaker Morant

1980

English

7.8

♡ 7

100%

91%

Action

based on a true story

Bruce Beresford Director

Trevor Mann as B / M Little

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Lt. Col. Denny

Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Lt. George Witton

Rod Mullinar as Major Charles Bolton

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.

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