217 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa
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The Candidate
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaThis multi-faceted drama, which depicts a group of intellectual Afrikaners struggling with pertinent moral, ethical and racial issues in apartheid South Africa, is widely acknowledged as one of Jans Rautenbachโs finest films.
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The Jackals
Africa - General ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 19th CenturyBandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Robert Gunnar is the bandit with a heart of gold, who is after Price's cache of gold, but falls in love with Diana Ivarson, who has hair of gold (bleach).
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The Cape Town Affair
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaWhat good is a million dollars when you're the target for every spy... cop... and killer in Cape Town! โ South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film, Pickup on South Street.
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The Professor and the Beauty Queen
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaPietergrhamesbosch has it firts beauty contest "miss south easter" with a total sum of 25000 rand.
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Diamond Walkers
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaDrama among diamond smugglers and gold fever in South African bush.
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The Naked Prey
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 19th CenturyStripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers! โ A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
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Zulu
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1870sDwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest! โ In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Code 7, Victim 5
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA very special agent with a code that means He Can Go All The Way! โ The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection. Once at Wexlerโs palatial Cape Town estate, Martin meets the patriarchโs family, close associates โ and possible suspects. When itโs discovered that the key to the killing may lie in an old war photograph, Martin sets out on a mission to unravel the identities of the men in the picture before they become target two through VICTIM 5.
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Sammy Going South
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! โ After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Lord Uncle Pete
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaPiet inherits the title of Lord from one of his forefathers, but wants to have it revoked as to not hamper his chances in the upcoming election. However, the only man who can revoke the title is his opponent, Sir David.
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The Hellions
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaRough, Relentless, everyone a killer โ Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
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Hans en die Rooinek
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaHans and Sydney are on a bus tour to the Cape. Hans is Afrikaans; Sydney is English. They chat up two pretty young women - and also quarrel between themselves all the way. Finally the tour guide kicks them off, forcing the two men to walk back to Johannesburg hoping that, despite the language barrier, they can finally get along.
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The Fiercest Heart
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1830sThese were the trail blazers... Who dared to penetrate the core of trackless Africa! โ Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.
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Rip van Wyk
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaRip van Wyk, a slow-witted Afrikaner, is transported from the 1850s to 1959.
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Come Back, Africa
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1950sCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Nor the Moon by Night
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ฐ๐ช KenyaWhen Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty, who is initially opposed to the marriage. The two become attracted to each other, but when Andrew is attacked by a lion, Alice nurses him back to health. Now torn between affection and duty, she must decide which path to follow.
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Diamond Safari
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA U.S. private eye falls for a smuggler and clears a native for murder in South Africa.
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Untamed
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1850s The 1840sIt's AFRICOLOSSAL! in CINEMASCOPE โ 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.
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Deep in the City
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaIt tells of a happy Bushveld family whose lives are turned upside down by the motherโs death. The father, his young daughter, and their pet dog have to move to the city so he can try and patent a bean-machine. The urban world is foreign and foreboding with much danger. The father perseveres, and triumphs in a comical manner.
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Ein Leben fรผr Do
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Lambert the Sheepish Lion
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaDisney Legend Sterling Holloway narrates this classic animated short. A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of sheep. Doted on by his mother, but teased by the other lambs, Lambert soon grows to become a massive lion, but as shy and gentle as the ewe who raised him. When a hungry wolf begins to stalk the herd, will Lambert find the courage to protect his mama?
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When Worlds Collide
New York District of Columbia ๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaPlanets destroy earth! โ When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
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Far Away in the Bushveld
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaA classic South African comedy in which a young Jamie Uys plays producer, writer, director and star, and his wife Hettie Uys the romantic interest. Somewhere in the bushveld, Hans Botha is doing the usual farm rounds when his friend and neighbour comes around with an urgent request: please collect the new teacher at the bus stop. The shy Hans is alarmed, saying he does not know how to talk to women. Prevailed on nevertheless, Hans sets off in his old jalopy, which for good measure has no brakes. He eventually arrives at the bus stop, where the teacher, Martie, is waiting patiently. She is pretty and young and the already flustered Hans proceeds to flatten her hatbox, allow the car to run off with her, and dump her in the river. By the time Hans says goodbye, Martie is angry and he is in love
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Cry, the Beloved Country
๐ฟ๐ฆ South AfricaFilmed in Africa...Where It Was Lived! โ In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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Fortune in Diamonds
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1900sAs the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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