South Africa movies

Full of It (2007)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Italy | South Africa | USA
Actors: Pinkston, Ryan | Mara, Kate | Polo, Teri | Kilborn, Craig | Lynch, John Carroll | Stevenson, Cynthia | Walsh, Amanda | McGrath, Derek | Close, Joshua | Gordon, Matt | House, Alex | Ouellette, Nick | Merkeley, Garth | Hewlett, Sean | Electra, Carmen
Directors: Charles, Christian
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Sam Leonard (Ryan Pinkston) is the new kid at Bridgeport High School. On his first day, he is humiliated by the school jock Kyle Plunkett (Josh Close), becomes friends with Annie Dray (Kate Mara), and falls in love with Kyle’s girlfriend Vicki Sanders (Amanda Walsh). When he goes to the guidance counselor (Craig Kilborn) for guidance, the counselor gives him the advice to lie to get the other kids to like him. Sam tells lies like “I drive a Porsche”, “My dad’s a rock star”, “My dog ate my homework”, “I never miss a shot” (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran (Teri Polo) are lusting after him. That night, after an argument with his parents (John Carroll Lynch and Cynthia Stevenson), he accidentally breaks the mirror behind his door. The next morning, Sam finds his dog actually eating his homework, he has a Porsche, he never misses a shot, and Mrs. Moran and Vicki Sanders are after him. Now he must find a way to fix what he’s created.

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Luxembourg | South Africa | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | Kruger, Diane | Henderson, Shiloh | Lyster, Patrick | Ndukwana, Faith | Bawa, Mehboob | Galley, Adrian | Grier, Warrick | Mongezi, Leslie | Msutu, Sizwe | Roberts, Matthew | van Jaarsveldt, Eduan | Pheto, Terry | Troiano, Giulia
Directors: August, Bille
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GOODBYE BAFANA is 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.

Rendition (2007)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Metwally, Omar | Witherspoon, Reese | Knight, Aramis | Malek-Yonan, Rosie | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Khouas, Moa | Oukach, Zineb | Naor, Yigal | Mrabti, Laila | Fabrizio, David | Margoum, Mounir | Roukhe, Driss | J.K. Simmons | Streep, Meryl | Gunton, Bob
Directors: Hood, Gavin
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When an Egyptian terrorism suspect “disappears” on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Prey (2007)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Bartlett, Jamie | Dowds, Conner | Roberts, Marius | Sefatsa, Muso | Makgoba, Jacob | Taylor, Ashley | Masha, Tumisho | Ocenasek, Thijs | Heering, Louis
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An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions.

Man to Man (2005)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | South Africa | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Joseph | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Glen, Iain | Bonneville, Hugh | Boseki, Lomama | Bayiha, Cécile | Montgomery, Flora | Mofokeng, Patrick | Petrie, Alistair | Saint-Macary, Hubert | Zajac, Mathew | McBain, William | Smith, Robin | Landey, Theo | Donachie, Ron
Directors: Wargnier, Régis
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1870. Dr. Jamie Dodd is elated : he has lastly succeeded in capturing not one, but two pygmies. He brings them to Scotland with the help of Elena Van den Ende, an adventuresome woman who sells wild animals to the zoos of Europe. His two anthropologist friends, black lovage and Fraser, and himself are sure they have ascertained the lacking link, which will make them famous. They start examining the pygmy couple from every angle and Jamie step by step discovers that Toko and Likola are just as sore and reasoning as any other homo sapiens. His two colleagues powerfully reject this idea as it is glory they are after not the truth. Will Jamie be able to prove the two short people are unfeigned human beings and not freaks to be shown in a zoo?

Catch a Fire (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: France | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Luke, Derek | Mbuli, Bonnie | Shabangu, Mncedisi | Masha, Tumisho | Khumalo, Sithembiso | Pheto, Terry | Burgers, Michele | Lovinga, Mpho | Mxo | Anstey, Jessica | Savage, Charlotte | Nkyonyeni, Nomhlé | Mabizela, Michael | van Jaarsveldt, Eduan
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s travel to freedom. In the country’s tumultuous and shared times in the 1980s, st. patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery gaffer and soccer coach who is unpolitical - until he and his wife cute are jailed. saint patrick is kayoed into action against the country’s tyrannous ruling system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos foster insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives.

Wah-Wah (2005)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | South Africa | UK
Actors: Byrne, Gabriel | Richardson, Miranda | Hoult, Nicholas | Watson, Emily | Walters, Julie | Imrie, Celia | Woolgar, Fenella | Wadham, Julian | Fox, Zac | Roberts, Ian | Richard, Michael | Mitchell, Sid | Grant, Olivia | Carlisle, John | Matshikiza, John
Directors: Grant, Richard E.
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Set at the end of the 60’s as kingdom of swaziland is about to take in independency from Great Britain, the film follows the young Richard E Grant at 12 (Zach Fox) through and through his parents traumatic separation, till he’s 14 (Nicholas Hoult). It is based on true events from Richard E Grant’s puerility

Blast! (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Germany | South Africa | USA
Actors: Griffin, Eddie | Jones, Vinnie | Meyer, Breckin | Soup | Shaggy | Velazquez, Nadine | Jaenicke, Hannes | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Grier, Warwick | Fox, Vivica A. | Andrews, Nicky | Du Toit, Paul | Kirkwood, Langley | Slater, Dean | Whitehead, Brett
Directors: Hickox, Anthony
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A terrorist, Michael Kittredge (Jones), posing as an conservationist objector leads a team of highly-skilled mercenaries to take assure of an oil rig off the coast of California, intending to blow up an electromagnetic bomb over the United States, prominent a sort of “new Pearl Harbor” attack on behalf of enemies to the nation. What Kittredge didn’t count on is a tower captain, Lamont Dixon (Griffin), who survives an attack on his ship, and is soon recruited by an FBI agent (Fox) to penetrate the oil rig and pander data about their plans… and if possible, stop them. In the process, Dixon meets an eager computing device expert (Meyer) aboard the oil rig who helps Dixon even as he gets on his nerves and Lamont suspects he can’t really trust him.

Breed, The (2006)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Horror
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Rodriguez, Michelle | Lively, Eric | Hudson, Oliver | Manning, Taryn | Harper, Hill
Directors: Mastandrea, Nicholas
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Two close brothers, Matt and John head to an exotic island for a week of fun and relaxation. Joined by Matt’s lady friend Nicki, John’s lady friend Sara and a friend Noah, the group intend on having a week of relaxation, fun and expenditure choice time together. However, after one of them is savagely attacked by a dog, the friends decide to leave the island early - only to find their plane wrecked. As the day goes on, the friends find themselves combat-ready for their lives against a venomous pack of mutated dogs - hundreds of them, who don’t intend on the group making it out alive off the island…

Racing Stripes (2005)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Greenwood, Bruce | Panettiere, Hayden | Poyck, Caspar | Bullock, Gary | Malick, Wendie | Walsh, M. Emmet | Puren, Thandi | Visser, Morne | Matthews, Dawn | Stern, Matt | Lesley, John | Hawkins, Graeme | Downes, Tarryn | Muniz, Frankie | Moore, Mandy
Directors: Du Chau, Frederik
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In the middle of a raging thunderstorm, a travelling circus incidentally leaves behind some very valued cargo—a baby zebra. The gangly little foal is reclaimed by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young girl Channing. Once a champ pureblood trainer, Walsh has given up horse education for a quiet life with Channing on their modest ky farm. The little zebra, or “Stripes,” as Channing calls him, is soon introduced to the farm’s misfit troupe of barnyard residents, led by a cranky shetland sheep dog Pony named Tucker and Franny, a wise old goat who keeps the family in line. The group is joined by Goose, a crazed big-city pelican who’s hiding out in the sticks until the heat dies down in Jersey. The un-aptly named sleuthhound whitening keeps a lazy eye on goings-on at the farm - in betwixt naps. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds contend for horse racing’s top honor, the ultra-prestigious ky Crown. From the first moment stripe lays eyes on the track, he’s hooked—he knows that if he could just get the chance, he could leave all those other horses in the dust. What he doesn’t know is—he’s not precisely a horse. But with feature zeal, he devotes himself to breeding for the big time, with a little help from Tucker, who has coached a host of wizard racehorses in the past.