
Frank Rautenbach
Actor · b. 1972 · South Africa
Leon Francois Rautenbach, popularly known as Frank Rautenbach, is a South African actor and producer. He is best known for the roles in the films Faith Like Potatoes, The Bang Bang Club and biographical film Hansie: A True Story.
Movies10
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieA Lifetime original recounting the true story of Genelle Guzman, the last survivor pulled alive from the World Trade Center ruins after 27 hours. The biographical drama chronicles her harrowing experience during the September 11 attacks and premieres on September 12, 2026, to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Angel in the Rubble: The Genelle Guzman Story
2026 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryIn the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.
The Bang Bang Club
2011 · 186 votes
Movie5.6CrimeDramaWhen two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
Wild Is the Wind
2022 · 77 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieDramaNichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband Nick, (Colin Moss) and children, Nichole discovers an unyielding strength within herself to save not only her family but countless residents from the encroaching flames. The film is a tribute to the indomitable human spirit and the unsung heroes who emerge in the face of tragedy.
Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story
2025 · 13 votes
Movie7.4DramaFrank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal,South Africa.
Faith Like Potatoes
2006 · 63 votes
- MovieDrama
After an unexpected tragedy, an inner-city teen in Reading, England struggles to put together disturbing pieces of his life. As he grapples with what he has lost, he finds life, love and unexpected strength in a terminal cancer patient.
- Movie2.0Comedy
The Wolf
2012 · 2 votes
Movie8.0Drama"How do you start over once you have betrayed a nation's trust?" The news of Hansie Cronjé's involvement with Indian bookmakers and his resulting public confession rocked the international sporting community. An unprecedented rise to glory was followed by the most horrific fall. A tarnished hero fueled the nation's fury.
Hansie
2008 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.
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Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. once again stars as John Turnipseed in the 3rd and final film of the Turnipseed trilogy. Torn from an idyllic life with a loving extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized, and empty cupboards. AB Turnipseed's alcoholism started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations. From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp, to one of the nation's most respected pioneers of community restoration, this is a story of transformation and restoration told with honesty, and contagious hope.
Series10
TV8.3Soap7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…
7de Laan
2000 · 3 votes
TV8.0CrimeMysteryThe unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.
Die Byl
2016 · 1 votes
TV5.6DramaCrimeIn 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.
Reyka
2021 · 28 votes
TV9.0DramaA south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.
Projek Dina
2020 · 1 votes
TV6.7CrimeDramaA house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.
Unseen
2023 · 46 votes
TV9.0DramaThe story of marine biologist and father of two children, Martin Field, who moves to the False Bay area to get away from a big secret - the death of his wife. There he starts a marine conservation trust for False Bay - but life isn't as simple as it seems.
Summertide
2024 · 2 votes
TV7.8CrimeDramaA woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.
Lioness
2021 · 5 votes
TV10.0DramaBeter as Gister is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around four families and especially the role of the men in them, inspired by the question: Why are fathers held to a different standard than mothers?
Beter as Gister
2026 · 1 votes
TV5.0Talk ShowIn this talk show, the actor Frank Rautenbach invites guests to talk about things that interest and inspire him. From cars, fishing, hunting, investments, travel and rugby - everything that is close to the men's hearts.
Hier Sit Die Manne
2023 · 1 votes
TV8.0RealityThe aim of Dankie, Lottoland is to identify individuals and charities in need, so that Lottoland South Africa can intervene, roll up its sleeves and support and assist them. Through this popular television series, 13 charities (or vulnerable individuals) also gain the opportunity for national exposure on television, with a view to gaining further support from the public in the future.
Dankie, Lottoland
2021 · 1 votes