217 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa
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Stander
🇿🇦 South AfricaGood cop. Great criminal. — The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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One by One
🇿🇦 South AfricaIn a place in Africa we follow a group of children preparing their kites for an adventure of their life. The short was intended to be one of the segments for the proposed but never completed Fantasia 2006.
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Drum
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sThe truth shall set you free — A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
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Cape of Good Hope
🇿🇦 South Africa The 2000sMark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
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Forgiveness
🇿🇦 South AfricaA disgraced ex-cop's arrival in a small town triggers a cathartic journey of forgiveness and revenge for himself and the family of the activist he killed.
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Proteus
🇿🇦 South Africa The 18th CenturyAn exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the passionate (true) story of two men caught in an unjust system rife with racism, homophobia and cruelty.
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Sophiatown
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sLittle Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
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Company
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇪 Kenya 🇿🇦 South AfricaA Law & Order Enterprise — Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's political history through archival footage, interviews and, of course, several mesmerizing musical performances.
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The Long Run
🇿🇦 South AfricaA failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by
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Final Solution
🇿🇦 South AfricaHate was the problem, forgiveness was the answer — The indoctrination of Gerrit Wolfaardt is complete: his family traditions, history, culture- even his church-have taught him that black South Africans are a cancer in the land. Under the eye of prominent members of the government and military, Gerrit develops a diabolical plan to rid South Africa of its "black danger." Before his plans can be carried out, he meets two people who will put him on a collision course with his future: Celeste, an open-minded University student, and Peter Lekota, a pastor who challenges Gerrit's prejudice. His "final solution" meets its greatest obstacle when Gerrit realizes he is wrong. The Persecutor becomes the Peacemaker and begins to seek reconciliation between whites and blacks. However, in the turbulent last days of apartheid, there are those who doubt his transformation. One such person is Moses Moremi, whom Gerrit had once violently attacked. In the end, it is Moses who must choose between peace and bloodshed.
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Africano
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe story of Badr, a young veterinarian, and his brother in law ‘Essaam, their desire for success and the seeming good fortune they encounter. Their life turned upside down when they get news that they have inherited a Zoo from Badr's uncle in South Africa. Badr and ‘Essaam fly to South Africa where they meet Gameela, Badr's niece, they find that the zoo is facing many problems. Badr, ‘Essaam, and Gameela face such challenges as vicious lion attacks, greedy bankers, treacherous relatives, with the help of Shaaker the father's lawyer and Adam, the loyal family employee.
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Merlin: The Return
🇿🇦 South Africa England The Middle Ages"Merlin: The Return" is the story of the battle between good and evil. The dark forces of Mordred are pitted against the mythical sorcery of Merlin. Mordred and his mother Morgana have been imprisoned in another world for the past 1500 years while Merlin's magical powers kept them at bay. However, in the present, a scientist accidentally finds the gateway to the other world and is about to release Mordred into 20th Century life. Arthur is reawakened from his slumber and together with Merlin, tries to find a way to stop Mordred from re-entering this world
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The Color of Friendship
District of Columbia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sMahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
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Long Night's Journey Into Day
🇿🇦 South AfricaLooking into a dark past for a bright future. — This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission
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Shark Attack
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe worlds deadliest predator just got angry... — When an accidental death verdict is given on discovery of the remains of a top scientist, within the stomach of a hammerhead shark his closest friend Marine Biologist Steven McRay is not happy with the explanation and travels to investigate further, where he discovers that his friend's death was not an isolated incident, and that the local population have been terrorised by a rash of shark attacks.Developments in scientific technology had allowed experts to predict the pattern and likelihood of Shark Attacks, but now it seems that they may also be able to actually control these factors, rendering at their disposal the ultimate Killing machine.Enjoy the water... you may never want to go in the sea again!
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A Reasonable Man
🇿🇦 South AfricaWhere do you draw the line? — With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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Who Am I?
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇿🇦 South AfricaFight now. Ask questions later. — A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.
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Dangerous Ground
California 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1980s The 1990sWhat he wants is revenge. What he gets is the fight of his life. — Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
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Operation Delta Force
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1990sNegotiations Are Over! — A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
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Mandela and de Klerk
🇿🇦 South AfricaSidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
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Ebola Syndrome
🇿🇦 South AfricaA restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.
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Aristotle's Plot
🇿🇦 South AfricaA meta-discourse on cinema, tackling the state and direction of cinema in the continent, the dominance of non-African works on African screens, and the clear absence of African films on the silver screens.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1940sA South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
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Kickboxer 5: The Redemption
🇿🇦 South AfricaPayback can be deadly. — Kickboxing champion Matt Reeves witnesses the murder of his friend Johnny. While investigating the crime, he learns that a Mr. Negaal in South Africa has founded a new kickboxing association and does not leave international champions much of a chance. Johnny had to pay with his life when he did not want to join. Neegal seems to kill everybody who is in his way especially David Sloan from the previous Kickboxer films. Matt is on his own now, but suddenly finds an unexpected ally.
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