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Movies19

• Movie7.2

  DramaHistory

  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.

  Invictus

  2009 · 4.4K votes

• Movie6.7

  Drama

  In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

  Ali

  2001 · 1.9K votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaWestern

  In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

  The Salvation

  2014 · 999 votes

• Movie6.0

  RomanceDrama

  An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

  In My Country

  2004 · 56 votes

• Movie6.9

  HistoryDrama

  The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

  Goodbye Bafana

  2007 · 165 votes

• Movie6.2

  Family

  The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.

  Running Free

  1999 · 15 votes

• Movie6.4

  Drama

  Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  Skin

  2009 · 50 votes

• Movie3.8

  ActionThriller

  A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

  Operation Delta Force

  1997 · 24 votes

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  1995 · 28 votes

• Movie4.2

  ComedyFamily

  The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After the bad guys come looking for the stolen diamonds and kidnap Rene, all of her fantasies come true as Ernest has to go to Africa to rescue her.

  Ernest Goes to Africa

  1997 · 71 votes

• Movie6.0

  TV MovieThriller

  Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?

  Pavement

  2002 · 13 votes

• Movie5.0

  ActionScience Fiction

  A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.

  Cold Harvest

  1999 · 13 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyRomance

  A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.

  White Wedding

  2009 · 9 votes

• Movie6.6

  Drama

  Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive S. African government, tenacious lawyer Bram Fisher steps up to the challenge as lead counsel. He soon finds that political leader Nelson Mandela is also on trial. Mandela urges his fellow defendants to plead not guilty and shine light on the systemic corruption against the African people. As the outcome of the trial looks bleak, Mandela gives his famous "I'm Prepared to Die" speech, discussing how the ANC's resistance is justified. But will Mandela's impassioned speech save these men's lives?

  Bram Fischer

  An Act of Defiance

  2017 · 13 votes

• Movie6.0

  Drama

  Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.

  The Fourth Reich

  1990 · 1 votes

• Movie3.8

  DramaRomance

  While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by the local community.

  Kin

  2000 · 6 votes

• Movie4.1

  Action

  Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.

  To the Death

  1992 · 7 votes

• Movie10.0

  Drama

  Smith, the deaf and dumb son of a rural coloured preacher, refuses to accept the menial labour on offer in the small farming community where he’s grown up. He tries to earn a living in the city, but this ends in assault, and his return home sparks off a cycle of vengeful violence.

  Jobman

  1989 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  A young, emigrated, South African man comes back to South Africa to sell his mothers farm.

  Promised Land

  2002 · 1 votes