217 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa
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Breaker Morant
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900sA powerful true story of bitter revenge... โ 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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Game for Vultures
England ๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970sIn every war there are those who kill... and those who make a killing! โ The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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Marigolds in August
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaMarigolds in August was written by Athol Fugard, who in the early 1980s was South Africa's most celebrated playwright. Fugard's intense political opinions were enough for the USSR to object to Marigolds being shown in the 1980 Berlin Festival, but the objections were dropped when it was learned that Fugard had already built up a strong fan following in Eastern Europe (for various reasons, the film was not released in the US until 1984). Winston Ntshona stars as a black South African gardener who travels by foot into the white community looking for a job. Upon arriving, Ntshona discovers that another black, John Kani, may have been hired for that job. Ntshoa ruins the chances for himself and Kani by accusing the other man of planning a theft. Both men are eventually hired by a fellow outcast, a white poacher (played by Anthol Fugard himself). The message would seem to be that if the have-nots of the world stick together, it matters little how badly they're treated by the "haves."
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Zulu Dawn
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1870sThe sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant! โ In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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The Human Factor
England ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.
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The Demon
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThe time of the Demon, your Demon, is drawing close... very close... โ Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.
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The Wild Geese
England ๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe ๐ธ๐ฟ Eswatini ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa Africa - General The 1970sA British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Flatfoot in Africa
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaInspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
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Killer Force
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThey were professionals who killed for hire. But the man who hunted them killed for pleasure! โ Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation...
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The Wilby Conspiracy
๐ง๐ผ Botswana ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970sIn the fight for freedom, you have to break all the rules. โ Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination
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The Kingfisher Caper
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaTwo young lovers are placed at odds with each other after reigniting a feud between their families over a valuable South African diamond mine. Power, money, love and passion all play an important part in the battle for control.
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Gold
England ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaEverything they touch turns to pure excitement! โ Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market.
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House of the Living Dead
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaOn a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.
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Lost in the Stars
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThe shattering drama, the haunting music, the unforgettable love story. โ Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
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Joe Bullet
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaIn the criminal underworld of soccer, one man will have to save the championship! โ 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 โ 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 gangsterโs hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eaglesโ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but heโs the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!
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Young Winston
England ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand โ This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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Diamonds Are Forever
Nevada California England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ฒ๐ฝ MexicoThe man who made 007 a household number. โ Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
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Satan's Harvest
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaCutter Murdock inherits an estate in Africa on which "Satan's Harvest" (heroin and marijuana) is grown. The thugs growing the drugs want him out of the way, so things get messy.
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Farewell Johnny
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA new arrival to a mental institute is ostracised by the other patients, until they use him as a scapegoat when another patient dies.
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Dirkie
๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaFew have ever entered the deadly, mysterious Kalahari, and lived to reveal its secrets! โ An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
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Katrina
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaKatrina is a coloured woman who tries to pass off as white. She rejects her father and mother to ensure that she and her son find a better life in apartheid South Africa. An Anglican priest falls in love with her but their lives are turned upside down when their secrets come out. Based on a story by D. Warner, Try for White.
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The Burning
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThe Burning is Stephen Frearsโ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summerโ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.
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Sandy the Seal
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWhen a lighthouse keeper takes in a seal in need and gives to his children to look after, the whole family is drawn into the shadowy world of illegal seal poaching. The family then finds themselves leading the fight to rid their coastal town of the criminals and save the seals.
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