
Albert Pretorius
Actor · South Africa
Movies18
Movie6.9DramaHistoryA 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.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2013 · 592 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryHaunted by a forbidden affair, a young man in a 1920s “conversion” clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era’s cruel norms.
Lilies Not for Me
2025 · 28 votes
Movie6.8DramaEight-year-old Bobo grows up on her family farm in Rhodesia in 1980 during the final days of the Bush War to end British colonial rule. Her eyes see conflict, the family's bond to the land, and the lasting wounds that war imprints on those who live through it.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025 · 31 votes
MovieDramaChristiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
Die Seemeeu
2019
Movie6.5MusicDramaKanarie (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.
Movie5.9HistoryWarSet in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby
Movie6.5DramaLafras Verwey (58) has worked as a clerk in the Civil Service in Pretoria for thirty years. By day he sorts files and whiles away the mundane hours writing grandiose propaganda speeches and drilling imaginary platoons in the washroom, but unbeknownst to his colleagues he is also a clandestine parcel courier for a secret organization that recruited his services to complete their covert mission.
Movie4.9AdventureWesternWhen her disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, Natalie flees her rural town in South Africa's desolate Karoo region.
Flatland
2019 · 14 votes
Movie8.0DramaFanus, tired of life and alone, is incompetent to take his own life. The nosy caretaker, who is always looking for her rent money but is actually looking for a friend for her wheelchair bound son, complicates the situation as well.
Movie8.0DramaBased on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century.
Poppie Nongena
2020 · 11 votes
Movie6.9DramaA look into the tumultuous life of Johannes Kerkorrel and the Voëlvry movement during Apartheid South-Africa
MovieDramaThrillerTwo women clean a farm murder scene.
Movie6.8DramaThrillerIn the volatile moments after a car crash, before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed yet desperate tow truck driver fiercely protects his tow. But the situation quickly spirals out of his control.
Movie6.0CrimeIn 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the truth around these murders, however difficult and upsetting it may be.
Griekwastad
2020 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaDie Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
Movie9.0DramaCrimeJames is an actor with a failed career. When he is offered an opportunity to earn a little extra by performing as a drag queen at a club, he accepts. His wife finds out and a row is unavoidable. James is ready to do anything to save his marriage, to prove that the role he has been entrusted with at the club is perfectly honourable and he is in high regard. He also has to apply his best acting skills when an investigation into the suspicious murder of the club’s diva is opened.
Stiekyt
2022 · 1 votes
Movie7.7ComedyRomanceJean and Sheryl are getting married. He is Afrikaans. She is Jewish. Their families are tense and Lukas, the best man - has been on a drinking spree and forgotten to confirm the band. To complicate matters more, the ancestral ring has been delayed because Sheryl's relatives are lost en-route to the wedding.
Konfetti
2014 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyJonathan, a dreamer and wannabe stand-up comedian in his late 20's, still lives with parents. After another failed open mic performance he gets drunk and crashes his father's car on the way home. This is the last straw for his loving but fed up parents and his father kicks him out of the house. Having nowhere to go he becomes a carguard. After a very hostile reception by the other carguards, the eldest carguard decides to take Johnathan under his wing and teaches him the finer art of being a carguard and more important he teaches Jonathan about life and how to survive as an outcast. Jonathan also falls in love with a girl way out of his league. Will he be able to apply the lessons learned to make peace with his family, earn the forgiveness of his mentor and win the heart of the most beautiful girl he ever met?
Jonathan: Die Movie
2016 · 1 votes
Series15
TV5.5SoapA South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
Binnelanders
2005 · 112 votes
TV8.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyWith his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.
ONE PIECE
2023 · 1.9K votes
TV7.2CrimeComedyWhen Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.
Koek
2024 · 4 votes
TV9.0DramaA legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.
Fynskrif
2018 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaThe series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.
Die Boekklub
2016 · 1 votes
TV7.0ComedyFrom the head office, Deluxe Meats, the staff are looked down upon, and no one at Deluxe Processed Meats feels their position is secure, as a BBBEE consortium recently bought a large part of the company.
Die Kantoor
2026 · 5 votes
TV9.0Talk ShowKaren Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.
Republiek van Zoid Afrika
2014 · 1 votes
TV8.0CrimeDie Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless detectives - Bas Koorts and Beatrice Mack - who investigate a new phenomenon each week and try to solve crimes... even in worlds that are not our own.
Die Spreeus
2019 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaWaterfront is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three sisters whose paths reconnect after a family tragedy brings all three back to their place of youth and childhood - the Waterfront in Cape Town.
Waterfront
2017 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaBased on the double murders in 1965 of Issie Fourie and Petro Nel in the Free State province town of Odendaalsrus who were both abducted and murdered. Issie's brother, André decided to bring the perpetrator to justice - something that took 18 years.
TV8.4CrimeDramaEthan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.
Spinners
2023 · 5 votes
TV9.0DramaThree estranged brothers find their way back to the family farm, Nêrens, where secrets, heartbreak and the truth surrounding their mother's death threaten the path to redemption.
Nêrens, Noord-Kaap
2021 · 1 votes
TV4.7CrimeDramaBased on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.
Devil's Peak
2023 · 6 votes
TV9.0DocumentaryFrank Opperman is a chameleon who was just as convincing as the tormented reverend in Dominee Tienie as he was as the bumbling mechanic Ouboet in Orkney snork nie. His portrayal of these beloved characters has made him a national treasure. Frank doesn't just play a role - he becomes the character. Now, Frankie Opperman, director and Frank's son, has made an intimate documentary series about his father.
Frank
2026 · 1 votes
TV6.0ComedyA South African television sitcom as an adaptation of the 2012 feature film Die Buurtwag, which tells the story of a young couple who find themselves crossing paths with an overly dramatic neighborhood watch, having recently relocated to the Cape from Gauteng.
Buurtwag
2015 · 1 votes