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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.
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77
7.1
/1947/
68
/24/
63
/31/
3.4
/596/
91
/11/
80
/19/

A World Apart (1988)
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
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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.
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Kanopy
75
7.4
/634/
71
/19/
64
/7/
3.5
/294/
83
/64/
88
/47/
78
/26/

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
The 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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Amazon Prime Video
75
7.5
/2950/
72
/121/
67
/41/
3.6
/3649/
83
/69/
75
/16/
76
/23/

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
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YouTube TV
74
7.3
/8268/
76
/557/
73
/199/
3.6
/10326/
87
/77/
63
/20/
75
/37/
cc age 15+

Whitney (2018)
Examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
6.9
/3826/
70
/66/
64
/50/
3.3
/1067/
86
/63/
79
/152/
62
/16/
cc age 15+

Skin (2008)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
poster
74
7.3
/172943/
73
/4623/
71
/4257/
3.4
/102986/
76
/238/
75
/6973/
74
/34/
cc age 12+

Invictus (2009)
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
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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.
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69
6.8
/2193/
64
/32/
67
/26/
3.3
/625/
85
/13/
74
/79/
71
/14/

Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
poster
68
6.8
/45211/
71
/1294/
71
/936/
3.4
/20091/
67
/9/
68
/795/

Who Am I? (1998)
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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Amazon Prime Video
66
7.3
/516856/
74
/24545/
74
/7088/
3.6
/1909991/
52
/341/
76
/3516/
49
/61/
cc age 16+

Bullet Train (2022)
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
7.1
/11292/
74
/248/
75
/147/
3.4
/4558/
35
/17/
87
/784/
40
/22/

The Power of One (1992)
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
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Netflix
62
6.4
/113496/
65
/2355/
63
/1510/
3.0
/30597/
57
/190/
54
/2654/
62
/41/
cc age 17+

The Interpreter (2005)
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
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Netflix
63
61
6.0
/7805/
67
/719/
65
/315/
2.9
/6283/
66
/34/
cc age 16+

I Am All Girls (2021)
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
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Netflix
60
6.5
/110992/
71
/9944/
64
/3075/
3.0
/67429/
59
/281/
51
/939/
55
/44/
cc age 16+

Money Monster (2016)
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
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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.
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The Roku Channel
58
6.3
/106680/
66
/7377/
64
/1782/
2.7
/119189/
51
/151/
82
/240/
51
/35/
cc age 15+

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
poster
58
7.3
/268929/
75
/7303/
71
/3961/
3.3
/129596/
40
/176/
77
/20553/
42
/34/
cc age 14+

The Bucket List (2007)
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
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Amazon Prime Video
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56
6.2
/3573/
60
/83/
61
/81/
3.1
/3250/
92
/12/
45
/55/
63
/7/

The Manxman (1929)
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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52
6.5
/5381/
62
/168/
63
/153/
3.4
/8896/
20
/5/
68
/114/

Ebola Syndrome (1996)
A violent fugitive on the run from the law makes his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, where he discovers that he's immune to the Ebola virus, and later returns home to spread the deadly disease.
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52
6.8
/281259/
70
/16743/
67
/8250/
3.1
/218615/
32
/226/
56
/3146/
41
/39/
cc age 17+

Chappie (2015)
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
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49
7.5
/2567/
66
/37/
74
/30/
3.6
/712/
93
/180/

Yesterday (2004)
After 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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61
44
6.4
/2586/
65
/60/
64
/39/
3.2
/1074/
71
/7/
42
/21/
57
/5/

The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
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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Fandango at Home Free
41
4.9
/16355/
57
/722/
53
/512/
2.4
/3327/
21
/24/
30
/263/
29
/11/

Vehicle 19 (2013)
A parolee becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.
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48
33
4.4
/3171/
57
/265/
61
/161/
2.9
/297/
23
/25/

Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
poster
67
30
6.3
/170/
73
/63/
54
/15/
4.0
/9547/

Friends (1994)
The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.
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39
28
4.5
/1390/
48
/142/
46
/341/
2.4
/3274/
12
/25/

Safari (2009)
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!
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73
27
7.1
/324/
65
/6/
68
/19/
3.5
/391/
89
/18/
77
/4/

Journal de France (2012)
A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the camera, his TV reports from around the world, snatches of their memories and of our history.
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Hoopla
61
18
6.5
/1167/
68
/70/
72
/18/
3.0
/325/
40
/2/

A Safari Romance (2023)
A wildlife biologist working on fostering the protection of wildlife in Africa is forced to team up with a theme park designer who wants to create an over-the-top safari attraction
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The Roku Channel
38
12
3.8
/1072/
50
/13/
37
/23/
30
/13/

Operation Delta Force (1997)
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
poster
?
6.3
/9/

Hillbrow (2014)
Hillbrow, Johannesburg's former trendy cultural attraction, has now developed into a densely populated and rather violent working-class neighborhood. The film offers a selection of local stories whose fictional characters are portrayed by inhabitants living in the neighborhood.
poster
?
7.4
/8/
10
/2/

Enraged by a Picture (2006)
An exhibition that causes a stir and provokes an outcry on a subject that is particularly taboo: being black and being a lesbian.
poster
?
6.3
/73/
61
/5/

Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba (2023)
This documentary film explores the varied and often surprising ways in which gold and the societies it is part of have transformed over time. Join Idris Elba on a global journey that traces the human story of gold—and discover why the element’s contributions remain crucial to our evolution.
poster
?
20
/1/

Apostles of Civilised Vice (2000)
A history of homosexuality in South Africa from colonial times to the present. Estimates say that between 1910 and 1933 over 60,000 men were convicted of sodomy. They were overwhelmingly black and unable to afford legal representation.
poster
?
7.1
/61/
40
/1/
65
/4/

Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon (2005)
A man tries to find a woman among refugees.
poster
?
7.6
/46/
45
/2/
60
/1/

Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)
An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.
poster
?
5.6
/47/
60
/2/
70
/1/

Alec to the Rescue! (1999)
Alec travels to Africa to be with his father.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
?
6.5
/117/
61
/9/
50
/1/

The Boer War: 1899-1902 (1992)
Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training. Well known participants in the Boar Wars include: Harry "Breaker" Morant, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.
poster
Hoopla
71
?
7.1
/340/
63
/8/
57
/3/
86
/7/
78
/3/

The Forgotten Kingdom (2013)
A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.
poster
?
6.0
/80/
10
/1/

Johannesburg: 'City of Gold' (1953)
This Traveltalk series short discusses how Johannesburg began as a farming community, but with the discovery of gold in the area, the city embraced mining as its primary industry. Native workers came to the area to train to be miners, and even after their work in the mines ended, many decided to remain in Johannesburg. The natives' music and dance are highlights.
poster
48
?
4.8
/113/
48
/4/

Black Trash (1976)
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
poster
Kanopy
60
?
6.4
/149/
55
/7/
64
/5/

Lost in the Stars (1974)
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
poster
54
?
6.3
/329/
35
/2/
43
/9/
77
/4/

Inside (1996)
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
poster
65
?
6.5
/230/
75
/62/
56
/11/

Gangster Ka: African (2015)
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.


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