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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
2008 • Drama • Crime • Action
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Rakka
2017 • Science Fiction • Horror • War
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fi…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
OATS Studios
2021 • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Director Neill Blomkamp produces a series of experimental short films that envision post-apocalyptic worlds and nightmarish scenarios.
Why matched: genres Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Firebase
2017 • Science Fiction • Horror • War
Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
Bravo Two Zero
1999 • TV Movie • War • Action
When an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut a…
Why matched: genres TV Movie, War
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2013 • Drama • History
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
In My Country
2004 • Drama • Romance
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 • Drama
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passenge…
Why matched: genres Drama
Young Ones
2014 • Drama • Science Fiction • Western
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Shepherds and Butchers
2017 • Drama
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Why matched: genres Drama
District 9
2009 • Science Fiction
Thirty 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…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction
Serenity
2019 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting h…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Forgiven
2018 • Drama • Thriller
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Pirates of Somalia
2017 • Drama
After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a loc…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Challenger Disaster
2013 • Drama • Thriller • History
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first tea…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Mauritanian
2021 • Drama • Thriller
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Chappie
2015 • Science Fiction • Crime • Action
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his s…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Crime
Catch a Fire
2006 • Drama • Thriller • Action
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Last Days of American Crime
2020 • Thriller • Crime • Action
In 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 b…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Invictus
2009 • Drama • History
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 th…
Why matched: genres Drama, History