
Patrick Mynhardt
Actor · 1932 – 2007 · Bethuli, South Africa
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt (12 June 1932 in Bethulie, Free State, South Africa – 25 October 2007 in London, England) was a well-known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera. He died in London, where he was performing in his one-man show Boy from Bethulie at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.
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Movie6.1AdventureDramaIn 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Zulu Dawn
1979 · 121 votes
Movie6.6AdventureThrillerA group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
The Naked Prey
1965 · 112 votes
Movie6.3WarDrama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Danger Within
1959 · 19 votes
Movie6.2ActionCrimeThe life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
Stander
2003 · 120 votes
Movie4.5ActionThrillerA ship captained by the father of the leader of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
1998 · 13 votes
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A musical drama shot in black-and-white to lend an air of gritty realism, Africa Shakes follows British rock group, The Couriers, on a concert tour of South Africa.
Africa Shakes
1966
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Trudi Adendorff lives in an orphanage all her life, until the day she completes her matric and an unknown benefactor sends her to university. He is Jacques de Villiers, a handsome businessman, and his only requirements are: she must not know his name and she must write to him regularly about her progress. However, he never writes back.
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General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a note taunting the enemy about it.
Kavaliers
1966
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South African military film. Currently does not have a VHS or DVD release
Movie8.8DramaHistoryThe only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.
The Visual Bible: Matthew
1993 · 31 votes
Movie6.2ComedyGreat Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959 · 8 votes
Movie7.3HistoryDramaThe Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 film that depicts the events of Book of Acts from the Bible's New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word Scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the Bible.
The Visual Bible: Acts
1994 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ComedyThe story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while working on his car and lands in hospital a few days before he is to marry the virgin Martie. This is the first mishap in a series of disasters and misunderstandings that provides many belly-clutching laughs. As Poenie's father Frikadel (Zak du Plessis) puts it, "Die seun sit sy voet uit die voordeur uit en dan is hy kniediep in die kak!"
Lipstiek Dipstiek
1994 · 6 votes
Movie5.1ActionDramaBad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.
The Jackals
1967 · 9 votes
Movie4.7DramaIn Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
The Grass Is Singing
1981 · 6 votes
Movie9.0ComedyElderly jewel thieves on the run from the law pass themselves off as wizards to a village of bewildered Africans.
Oddball Hall
1990 · 1 votes
Movie6.0AdventureActionDrama among diamond smugglers and gold fever in South African bush.
Diamond Walkers
1965 · 2 votes
Movie7.8DramaFamilyA poignant tale of friendship and resilience between two South African children, Tsepo and Jannie, set against the contrasting backdrops of rural Africa and 1970s New York City. Their bond faces trials as they navigate the challenges of injury and the quest for healing.
Movie7.3TV MovieDramaHallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Macbeth
1964 · 3 votes
Movie2.7WesternA Mexican bandit faces the firing squad - the call to fire about to be made. Suddenly, out of nowhere a lone man appears, killing the entire squad. But this act of mercy was not performed out of kindness or compassion...the stranger has one half of a map that leads to a cache of gold; the outlaw has the other.
Three Bullets... for a Long Gun
1971 · 6 votes
Movie10.0FamilyDramaPiet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their land and expelling after. The Bushman exposes a legend about a fabulous hidden treasure.
Torn Allegiance
1986 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaA final year medical student goes on the run after bring implicated in the hit and run death of a fellow student.
Eendag Vir Altyd
1985 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureSafari tour guide David Webb (Robert Powell) takes a job as head of security on the luxury train Pride of Africa and discovers that the wealthy passengers can be just as dangerous as the wild animals he knows so well. As the train sets off across the lush countryside, Webb contends with a dangerous kidnapping plot, a heated lovers' quarrel and a possible murder in this made-for-TV mystery set in the 1930s.
Pride of Africa
1997 · 1 votes
MovieWarDramaSet during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for Britain in history.
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TV7.3Action & AdventureDramaDanger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
Danger Man
1960 · 25 votes
TV6.5Action & AdventureGeorges Lancier is a former mercenary for hire. After he retires from business, he gets trapped in a complex conspiracy involving a diamond heist, international financiers, and struggle for political power in an imaginary African country.
Les Diamants du Président
1977 · 2 votes
TVDramaIn South America, a bitter battle is raging over diamonds.