Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls

2008

English

2.4

♡ 3

11%

Mark Atkins Director

Scott Wheeler as Capt. Lawrence Smith

Natalie Stone as Lady Anna Heresford

Daniel Bonjour as Sir Henry Curtis

Wittly Jourdan as Umbopa

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.

Zulu

2013

English

6.7

♡ 31

60%

Jérôme Salle Director

Forest Whitaker as Ali Sokhela

Orlando Bloom as Brian Epkeen

Sven Ruygrok as David Epkeen

Danny Keogh as Kruger

As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain.

The Head Hunter

1988

English

4.1

♡ 12

Francis Schaeffer Director

June Chadwick as Denise Giullani

John Barrett as Detective #2

Kay Lenz as Katherine Hall

Gordon Mulholland as Prof. Robert Sinclair

A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, so he starts crashing on the couch of his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community and begins decapitating some people and possessing others.

Joe Bullet

1973

English

5.1

♡ 5

Louis de Witt Director

Fanyana H. Sidumo as Henry

Sydney Chama as Jerry

Ken Gampu as Joe Bullet

Sol Rachilo as Sonny

When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!

Ghetto Goblin

2013

English

4.4

♡ 11

96%

Action

Horror

johannesburg south africa

johannesburg, south africa

sexploitation

south africa

tikoloshe

Jordan Harland Director

Vera Ephraim as Ayanda

Prince Mathebula as Prince

Njabulo Qindi as Tavern Patron

Bonga Nkomo as Voice of Tokoloshe

Strange attacks plague the township's women, leaving the town leaders at a loss to defend them. At the same time Mthnuzi, a shrewd businessman, is becoming wealthier and more popular with the ladies - something is amiss. The local reverend, Simon Nkosi, learns that Mthunzi is controlling a Tokoloshe to fulfill his greedy desires. In his greed he breaks a golden rule of maintaining control over the beast and it goes on a rampage. Now its thirst for blood is strong and comes after Mthunzi's women, saving the one he loves for last. Together with Reverend Simon they must take on a mythical beast that has never been defeated, to try and save.

High Fantasy

2017

English

4.7

♡ 5

75%

Jenna Cato Bass Director

Francesca Varrie Michel as Lexi

Liza Scholtz as Tatiana

Nala Khumalo as Thami

Qondiswa James as Xoli

A group of young friends on a camping trip, deep in the South African countryside wake up to discover they have all swapped bodies.

Untamed

1955

English

6.0

♡ 8

23%

Henry King Director

Agnes Moorehead as Aggie

Brad Dexter as Lt. Christian

Kem Dibbs as Outlaw

Robert Adler as York

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

Another Day of Life

2018

English

7.3

♡ 15

89%

independence movement

portugal

south africa

Raúl de la Fuente Director

Youssef Kerkour as Farrusco

Tomasz Zietek as Farrusco

John Hollingworth as Rysard Kapuscinski

Gracy Goldman as (voice)

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…

Stander

2003

English

7.0

♡ 19

73%

johannesburg south africa

protest

south africa

Bronwen Hughes Director

Thomas Jane as Andre Stander

Tessa Jubber as Florida Girl

Dexter Fletcher as Lee McCall

Ron Smerczak as Wild Coast Cop

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

The Bang Bang Club

2010

English

6.9

♡ 17

49%

Steven Silver Director

Nick Boraine as Colin

Nelson Mandela as Himself

Taylor Kitsch as Kevin Carter

Malin Akerman as Robin Comley

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.

Blue Crush 2

2011

English

5.3

♡ 8

33%

Mike Elliott Director

Sasha Jackson as Dana

Patrick Lyster as Ira

Gideon Emery as Joel

Sharni Vinson as Tara

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.

A Million Colours

2011

English

6.8

100%

Peter Bishai Director

Matt Stern as Joubert

Stelio Savante as Major Shawn Dixon

Jordan Shade as Martin de Villiers

Wandile Molebatsi as Muntu Ndebele

A story of love and friendship set against the violence of Apartheid in South Africa. It is a story of the ups and downs of the lives of the three main characters, and how their lives intersect over the years.

Moffie

2019

Afrikaans

6.8

♡ 19

91%

72%

Action

apartheid

based on novel or book

Oliver Hermanus Director

Christiaan Schoombie as Dorman

Jan Combrink as Jan Gould

Mark Elderkin as Medic

Dijan Botha as Soldier 3

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

The Man Who Fell from the Sky

2021

English

5.8

♡ 1

Sam Forsdike Director

Richard Bentley as Self

The Man Who Fell From The Sky is a Channel 4 documentary. It tells the fascinating story of two men who stowed away on a flight from South Africa to the UK in 2012. But what was their story, and what happened to the two men? The documentary is billed as a ‘stranger than fiction’ story, that features two men who made the ‘most extreme journey’ ever taken by humans. South Africans Themba Cabeka and Carlito Vale made the trip clinging onto the undercarriage of the plane. Together, they made the 11-hour, 5,639-miles trip braving -60C temperatures. The incredible journey made news around the world.

Hell Trip

2018

English

4.1

♡ 2

52%

Patrick Garcia Director

Stevel Marc as Bobby Nash

Jay Anstey as Emily Larson

Graham Clarke as Laurence Sterling

Clayton Boyd as William Reese

A group of young tourists arrive at an abandoned lodge in Africa that holds an ominous and deadly secret.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995

English

6.8

♡ 5

85%

based on novel or book

Darrell Roodt Director

Ron Smerczak as Captain van Jaarsveld

Jerry Mofokeng as Hlabeni

Richard Harris as James Jarvis

Lillian Dube as Mrs. Lithebe

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Alien from L.A.

1988

English

3.3

♡ 8

22%

parent child relationship

Sci-Fi

sexploitation

south africa

Albert Pyun Director

Thom Mathews as Charmin'

William R. Moses as Guten 'Gus' Edway

Deep Roy as Mambino

Don Michael Paul as Robbie

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.

Sarafina!

1992

English

6.3

♡ 15

60%

based on play or musical

Darrell Roodt Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Mary Masembuko

Greg Latter as Policeman

Leleti Khumalo as Sarafina

John Kani as School Principal

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.

Kanarie

2018

Afrikaans

7.5

♡ 3

Christiaan Olwagen Director

Geon Nel as Corporal de Wet

Laudo Liebenberg as Lourens Human

Francois Jacobs as Tiaan Taljaard

De Klerk Oelofse as Walter

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.