
Norman Anstey
Actor · Johannesburg, South Africa
Movies23
Movie7.5Science FictionThirty 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.
District 9
2009 · 10K votes
Movie7.2AdventureActionA 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.
Movie7.4DramaRomanceBased on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Breathe
2017 · 819 votes
Movie6.4ActionCrimeIn the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.
The Last Days of American Crime
2020 · 866 votes
Movie5.8DramaA drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Winnie Mandela
2011 · 20 votes
Movie6.3ThrillerDramaSet in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a plane in a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire from his enemies after he leads UN troops into their first wartime operation.
Movie5.0AdventureActionAn adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealth of the city, for reasons of their own. But to their horror they find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew, what with a Nazi doctor still using the place for his human experiments.
River of Death
1989 · 42 votes
Movie6.9HistoryDramaThe 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 · 166 votes
Movie4.6HorrorAn author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
1988 · 141 votes
Movie5.2ActionAdventureThe Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
Witness to a Kill
2001 · 10 votes
Movie2.7RomanceAdventureA pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Space Mutiny
1988 · 84 votes
Movie4.9DramaThrillerA man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.
Second Skin
2000 · 19 votes
Movie5.8DramaA young documentary filmmaker working for a struggling television station travels to South Africa for work.
Born Wild
1995 · 8 votes
Movie9.0AdventureA college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.
Scavengers
1987 · 1 votes
Movie4.9ActionThrillerWhen saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?
The Revenger
1989 · 11 votes
Movie6.0DramaThe plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Angus Buchan's Ordinary People
2012 · 8 votes
Movie4.1ActionKickboxing 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
Movie3.7ComedyDramaA down-on-his-luck, struggling writer hits rock bottom just when he meets a sexy policewoman. But bad luck seems to follow him like a lost puppy and just when things start looking up, a story sold, a new camper and a new love life, his adventure of misfortune begins again.
It's Murphy's Fault
1988 · 6 votes
Movie5.4ActionCrimeA cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.
Reason to Die
1990 · 4 votes
Movie4.3ActionThe heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
Merchants of War
1989 · 7 votes
Movie4.8WarActionThe adventures of three friends running an air charter business in Africa during WW II and their race to prevent a Nazi Baron from escaping to Germany with vital radar equipment.
African Express
1990 · 5 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMia Moolman works for a Sandton-based event coordination company that has been commissioned by the department of Trade and Industry to create an event celebrating the most successful ad campaigns in South African history. The gala event will happen at Emperors Palace, and the CEO of the company, Theodore, has asked his employees to pitch ideas for the show and whoever comes up with the best idea will be awarded a promotion and a special bonus. Mia comes up with the idea to make the three guys from the old Castrol commercials, Boet, Swaer and Mogae, part of the show. Her boss eventually agrees to this, but Mia must go and find them in the Kalahari and bring them to Emperors Palace in time for the big gala event. Will she get them to the big show in time?
Babalas
2013 · 1 votes
MovieComedyDramaJust before his wedding, a Dutch man discovers that he has an African daughter. Is it blackmail or not? He has to find out quickly before the wedding. He has to travel with his alleged daughter through an African country in turmoil to uncover a surprising mystery.
Series2
TV5.5DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA man wakes up in a new place - a place he doesn't recognize, a place where people have numbers instead of names, a place called "The Village" where all traces of his former life are renounced as delusions.
The Prisoner
2009 · 104 votes
TV4.0ComedyPandjieswinkelstories (Pawnshop Stories) is a South African drama anthology television series created and written by PG du Plessis and produced by Krisan Produksies which - in the vein of his classic series Koöperasiestories - tells a different story each week through the eyes of three central characters, who confide in the viewers about what they are watching.
Pandjieswinkelstories
2014 · 1 votes