217 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa
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Chappie
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaI am consciousness. I am alive. I am Chappie. โ Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundingsโsome good, some badโand he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
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Singh Is Bliing
๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaRaftaar Singh is always looking to have fun and runs away from responsibility. Fed up, his father orders Raftaar to go to Goa and work, and learn to take on responsibility. Once in Goa, he impresses his new boss with his enthusiasm and creative thinking. Soon he gets an assignment, and meets Sara Amy Jackson - and thus begins their unique love story. What ensues is a great comedy of errors, as one hilarious situation after another unfolds. Raftaar falls head over heels for this exotic, mysterious girl. The romance takes a deadly turn when he realizes that Sara is not who he thinks she is and has an agenda, which takes him to Romania. Will Raftaar be able to win her over in a distant and dangerous land?
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Ladygrey
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaEstelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThe giant, man-eating Graboids are back and even deadlier than before, terrorizing the inhabitants of a South African wildlife reserve as they attack from below-and above.
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While You Weren't Looking
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaDez and Terri, a mixed-race couple married 20 years and adoptive parents, they are the trailblazing lesbians of the New South Africa. But, have these freedoms guaranteed them happiness? Asanda, their 18 year old adopted daughter, is the poster child for South Africaโs diversity but describes herself as โan experimentโ, being made up as she goes along. She meets Shado, an enigmatic Tommy Boy from Khayalitsha, a township on the edge of Cape Town, and a different picture of the New South Africa emerges.
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The Two of Us
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaSet in Alexandra township, South Africa, a brother and sister journey through life knowing they have no one but each other. Schoolgirl Zanele falls in love with an older man where a series of events are set in motion and reveal much more.
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Blended
Connecticut Africa - General ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaSingle Dad, No Clue. Single Mom, Flying Solo. โ After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
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Cold Harbour
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWhile investigating a smugglers' turf war in Cape Town, township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption. He must set loyalty aside to act with integrity, alone.
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
California Shanghai Africa - General ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaSometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost. โ Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasnโt really tasted life, and yet heโs offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
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Rush
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970sEveryone's driven by something. โ A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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Death Race: Inferno
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWelcome to the Inferno โ Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.
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Layla Fourie
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaLayla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
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Vehicle 19
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWrong place. Wrong time. Wrong car. โ A parolee becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.
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Zulu
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaAs 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.
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Singam II
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaAn Indian Police โ Picking up the storyline from where Singam ended, Duraisingam has gone undercover after meeting the Home Minister and is working as an NCC officer in a school in Thoothukudi. The only people who know about this operation are the Chief Minister and Home Minister apart from himself.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1940sIt is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. โ 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.
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Fanie Fourie's Lobola
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaAfter Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).
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Schuks! Your Country Needs You
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaSchuster at his candid best โ Leon Schuster (Schuks) returns to prank unsuspecting South Africans. Helping him round up everyday victims are Rob van Vuuren, Lare Brink, and all-time favourite Alfred Ntombela.
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Safe House
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaNo one is safe โ 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.
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Dark Tide
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaIn Shark Alley, courage runs deep. โ A traumatized shark expert must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley."
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Searching for Sugar Man
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa Michigan The 1990sGreat Art Always Survives โ 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.
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Angus Buchan's Ordinary People
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 2010sThe plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
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Mad Buddies
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaTwo sworn enemies, Boetie (Leon Schuster) and Beast (Kenneth Nkosi) are forced to do a road trip together on foot, only to discover that they have been conned into being part of a TV reality show.
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The White Lions
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
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Blue Crush 2
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaHaunted 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.
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