217 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa
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Bakgat!
πΏπ¦ South AfricaVind jouself, ten spyte van hoΓ«rskool β Katrien (CheriΓ© van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, 'Wimpie' Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
πΏπ¦ South AfricaWelcome to the promised land. β This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
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Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past
πΏπ¦ South AfricaHekule, the King of Kuvukiland, is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village.
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Rough Aunties
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 2000sFearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. This newest documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE) follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities.
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Sea Point Days
πΏπ¦ South AfricaLying on the coast of Cape Town - South Africa's most segregated city - there is one public space where everyone does seem to come together: the Sea Point Promenade and Municipal Pools. Set between city and ocean, this beautiful strip of "everymansland" offers a quirky and often entertaining mix of class, race, gender and religion: a place where South Africans of all backgrounds can experience happiness together... But is all as it appears? SEA POINT DAYS presents an unusual and impressionistic record of life at Cape Town's Sea Point Promenade and municipal pools, using largely cinematic vignettes to explore issues of belonging, integration, nostalgia, happiness and identity in an ex-white South African neighbourhood.
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Goodbye Bafana
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe 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.
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Rendition
Illinois πͺπ¬ Egypt πΏπ¦ South AfricaWhat if someone you love... just disappeared? β When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
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The World Unseen
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1950sA drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
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Ghost Son
πΏπ¦ South AfricaA widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
π¦π΄ Angola π³π¦ Namibia πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1970s The 1960sNamibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
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Tengers
πΏπ¦ South AfricaA Small Adult Comedy with a Big Kid's Heart β Whilst working on "the great South African novel," an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of Johannesburg.
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Catch a Fire
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1980s The 1990sThe spark that ignites us, unites us. β 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.
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Blood Diamond
πΈπ± Sierra Leone πΏπ¦ South Africa π¬π³ Guinea π±π· Liberia The 1990sIt will cost you everything. β 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.
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Mercenary for Justice
πΏπ¦ South AfricaMercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.
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Faith Like Potatoes
πΏπ² Zambia πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1970s The 1980sFrank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal,South Africa.
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We Are Together
New York πΏπ¦ South AfricaTells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa.
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Bushman's Secret
πΏπ¦ South Africa π§πΌ BotswanaSouth African filmmaker Rehad Desai details the lose-lose situation facing the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in this eye-opening documentary.
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Tsotsi
πΏπ¦ South AfricaIn this world... Redemption comes just once. β The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isnβt the best way.
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Duma
πΏπ¦ South AfricaSome friendships are wilder than others β An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
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Alive in Joburg
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1990sA documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
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U-Carmen
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 2000sU-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper MerimΓ©e's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
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Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
πΏπ¦ South AfricaA man tries to find a woman among refugees.
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Yesterday
πΏπ¦ South AfricaAfter 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.
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Red Dust
πΏπ¦ South AfricaNothing is more dangerous than the truth. β Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
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In My Country
πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1990sA South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation β An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
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