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81
7.3
/790/
77
/43/
71
/18/
3.5
/541/
96
/50/
83
/14/
80
/19/

Trophy (2017)
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
poster
79
7.9
/745067/
77
/23601/
74
/10003/
3.8
/490745/
90
/309/
82
/39343/
81
/36/
cc age 17+

District 9 (2009)
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
78
7.8
/15237/
74
/285/
71
/155/
4.0
/8666/
100
/23/
91
/272/
73
/11/

Breaker Morant (1980)
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.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/32183/
72
/531/
69
/334/
3.5
/11028/
82
/130/
86
/1673/
70
/35/
cc age 17+

Tsotsi (2005)
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
poster
75
8.0
/618010/
78
/13669/
75
/8052/
3.7
/325436/
64
/214/
90
/35204/
64
/39/
cc age 17+

Blood Diamond (2006)
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.
poster
75
7.3
/62331/
73
/1959/
73
/1250/
3.4
/29320/
85
/27/
84
/1962/
73
/6/
cc age 10+

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
poster
75
7.3
/198821/
75
/7867/
70
/3594/
3.6
/98647/
82
/44/
78
/3689/
70
/21/
cc age 16+

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.8
/2180/
66
/64/
62
/60/
3.6
/3051/
91
/53/
67
/11/
80
/14/

The Wound (2017)
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
poster
MGM Plus
74
7.0
/6747/
66
/99/
66
/110/
3.6
/4044/
82
/74/
75
/64/
68
/19/

A Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.1
/3546/
66
/95/
67
/87/
3.6
/9523/
87
/85/
63
/6/
78
/20/

Tori and Lokita (2022)
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
poster
Hoopla
70
6.5
/6001/
60
/125/
62
/84/
3.2
/1447/
83
/60/
62
/262/
71
/18/

Disgrace (2008)
Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.5
/1072/
67
/12/
53
/11/
3.4
/227/
80
/10/
67
/15/
68
/17/

Bopha! (1993)
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.5
/77267/
66
/1957/
62
/1162/
3.0
/23444/
77
/151/
53
/1327/
69
/36/
cc age 16+

Changing Lanes (2002)
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.
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Kanopy
67
6.1
/1037/
70
/72/
56
/27/
3.4
/1083/
76
/34/
88
/17/
73
/12/

Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018)
Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.8
/4727/
68
/211/
66
/89/
3.6
/7546/
91
/97/
73
/13/
69
/12/
cc age 17+

Moffie (2020)
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
65
7.0
/2158/
70
/49/
77
/47/
3.8
/2387/
100
/7/
88
/47/

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
poster
64
6.8
/293/
64
/11/
51
/9/
68
/31/
63
/31/
59
/16/

Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Mark 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.
poster
64
6.8
/18869/
69
/752/
71
/522/
3.2
/6334/
50
/14/
70
/381/
51
/17/
cc age 10+

The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
poster
Starz
64
7.1
/29901/
71
/1023/
68
/558/
3.3
/9827/
61
/145/
68
/641/
60
/32/
cc age 15+

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
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.
poster
63
6.2
/603/
53
/21/
58
/7/
3.3
/4963/
65
/23/
66
/7/

Pepe (2024)
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
63
7.0
/9556/
65
/184/
61
/113/
3.4
/1861/
73
/63/
80
/280/
62
/18/

Stander (2003)
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
poster
Kanopy
62
5.6
/7560/
59
/617/
59
/226/
3.0
/14050/
84
/67/
45
/46/
64
/11/

Gaia (2021)
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
poster
Netflix
60
6.7
/247272/
70
/8374/
64
/3793/
2.9
/77755/
52
/192/
63
/5547/
52
/36/
cc age 17+

Safe House (2012)
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.
poster
Fandor
72
60
6.8
/3128/
70
/74/
65
/116/
3.5
/2811/
100
/5/
62
/39/

Black Venus (2010)
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
poster
70
60
7.3
/11100/
73
/125/
67
/61/
3.5
/1064/
77
/22/
79
/61/
53
/8/

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)
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.
poster
Hoopla
59
5.6
/3429/
61
/265/
51
/87/
2.9
/8642/
80
/56/
58
/30/

Fried Barry (2020)
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
67
59
6.7
/11254/
69
/171/
62
/138/
3.2
/1302/
75
/141/
71
/783/
62
/32/
cc age 15+

Catch a Fire (2006)
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.
poster
58
6.9
/11901/
69
/371/
65
/174/
3.4
/3632/
49
/49/
60
/177/
48
/15/
cc age 17+

The Bang Bang Club (2011)
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
poster
53
6.0
/3038/
60
/47/
59
/50/
3.1
/728/
23
/81/
56
/82/
44
/27/

In My Country (2004)
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
poster
60
46
6.8
/3238/
70
/186/
63
/75/
3.3
/1012/
60
/10/
53
/17/
42
/5/

Shepherds and Butchers (2017)
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
poster
61
46
6.2
/2923/
61
/91/
58
/49/
3.3
/350/
71
/7/
58
/64/
55
/4/

Endgame (2009)
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.
poster
Kanopy
72
45
7.5
/490/
51
/6/
62
/5/
94
/16/
69
/197/
85
/4/

Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000)
This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission
poster
The Roku Channel
63
44
6.3
/2083/
53
/51/
57
/34/
3.3
/778/
84
/19/
60
/45/

Beauty (2011)
François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
poster
44
5.5
/4339/
56
/145/
55
/100/
2.6
/1854/
10
/10/
33
/61/

Heart Condition (1990)
Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
poster
66
43
6.9
/1952/
71
/36/
60
/57/
3.3
/3126/

Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun) (2011)
Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It's time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.
poster
72
43
7.0
/1424/
75
/34/
65
/31/
3.6
/2810/
93
/15/
61
/2/

Safari (2016)
Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
41
4.6
/1149/
52
/88/
44
/12/
2.5
/3995/
60
/10/
50
/4/

Street Trash (2025)
A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.
poster
67
41
6.5
/1087/
59
/25/
57
/44/
3.3
/900/
91
/11/

The Harvesters (2018)
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
40
6.3
/835/
61
/30/
58
/22/
3.4
/432/
94
/16/
75
/16/
78
/4/

Number 37 (2018)
Entrapped in his apartment, Randal, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal commit a murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
40
6.7
/2617/
62
/38/
58
/40/
3.3
/451/
72
/1820/

Red Dust (2004)
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.
poster
70
38
7.3
/887/
64
/15/
75
/71/
3.6
/645/
67

The Conspirators (1969)
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
poster
68
38
5.9
/813/
62
/41/
55
/33/
3.3
/1838/
100
/6/
71
/1/

Crumbs (2015)
A mild-mannered man journeys across a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of answers regarding a derelict spaceship hovering in the sky.
poster
The Roku Channel
37
4.3
/18338/
54
/2097/
47
/598/
2.0
/7086/
12
/49/
16
/130/
34
/15/
cc age 17+

Siberia (2018)
Lucas, a diamond trader who travels to Saint Petersburg to arrange a sale, discovers that his Russian business partner has left his hotel and gone to a small Siberian village, so Lucas also heads there to try find him.
poster
63
36
6.4
/2090/
72
/64/
59
/38/
3.2
/406/
58
/123/

Yankee Zulu (1993)
Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.
poster
55
35
6.3
/1413/
58
/12/
57
/18/
36
/39/
68
/131/
48
/12/

3 Needles (2005)
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
poster
The Roku Channel
79
34
7.5
/777/
76
/20/
64
/20/
3.7
/749/
100
/12/
89
/5/

Canary (2018)
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
33
5.2
/1639/
50
/19/
57
/12/
3.3
/929/
92
/12/
93
/7/

Razzennest (2022)
South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus's crew joining, they record an audio commentary track for his new elegiac feature documentary Razzennest. But the session goes down a different path... cazzart! The ultimate elevation of arthouse horror, just not as you might expect.
poster
Kanopy
58
33
4.9
/591/
60
/125/
67
/96/
3.0
/243/
57
/4/

Indemnity (2022)
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.


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