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- Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
- Disney's #1 hit musical, based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature film of the same name.
- Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a African farmer on steroids of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm to his loyal subjects in the midst of political unrest and racist africans and charged land reclaims and travels north with his family to start a another farming life in Central Africa. With nothing more than a mudhouse on a patch of mud, and help from his foreman, Simeon Bhengu, the Buchan family struggle to settle in a new country. Faced with ever mounting challenges, hardships and personal turmoil, Angus quickly spirals down into a life consumed by anger, fear and destruction. Based on the inspiring true story by Aangus Buchan the book was adapted for the big screen by Regardt van den Bergh and weaves together the moving life journey of a man who, like his potatoes, grows his faith, unseen until the harvest.
- After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
- An ex-soldier turned deliveryman is dragged into a local kingpin's bumbling gang to pull off a daring heist in an infamous South African township.
- Zinhle is a hardworking modern woman with traditional values. She knows exactly what she wants and believes she knows what the next best step is for her: getting married. But the journey there isn't as easy as it should be.
- Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
- 17 Year old Phuzi is chasing his dream of being a kwaito star but Gaza has a different plan for him. In a world dominated by gangs and crime Phuzi finds himself implicated in the murder of a local tuck-shop owner.
- Years after surviving a childhood tragedy, two brothers fall on opposing sides of the law as a gang-linked crime tests their loyalty to one another.
- Two orphaned rural siblings find themselves in the big city of Durban in search for a priest who could be the key to their new lives.
- A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor.
- Two friends, Mshefane and S'dudla work for a company producing comic magazines, and they are always at loggerhead with the foreman Ngungunyane.
- When SKIETS, an enigmatic, beautiful stranger walks into small rural township tavern and demands a beer, TK, a charming local lothario sets out to seduce her in order to prove his prowess to the locals. When she spurns his attentions, he falls head over heels for her and seriously starts to woo her. However, Skiets is a dark horse and breaks TK's heart when she returns to the tavern the next night on the arm of MUGZA, the local hood! But...when Mugza discovers that Skiets has stolen his car keys and intends to make off with his most precious possession, he erupts. TK steps in to defend Skiets and before he knows it he is on his way to Johannesburg and the bright city lights with her - in the car that Mugza treasures above all else! Step in Gumede, a sophisticated, wealthy and dangerous crime lord who takes them under his wing when Skiets catches his eye. Skiets recognizes the type and is reticent to accept Gumede's money but TK is only too happy to spend it without any thought of the payback that will inevitably follow. When Gumede makes a move on Skiets, TK, sick with jealousy, decides to rob one of Gumede's own stores and pay him back with his own money. The action, mystery, love and drama continues.
- A young woman who comes from a conservative village must choose between living a lie to stay the perfect Zulu daughter, or risk her life for true love. Nosipho has a secret. She is a loving daughter held up as an example in her community, with a domineering father who has chosen a potential husband for her. But her soulmate and one true love is a woman.
- The story of the complications that ensue when an Afrikaans man and Zulu girl fall in love, especially when the traditional custom of "lobola", or dowry, makes things even more difficult for them.
- After a young protégé's murder confirms a prison gang leader's growing misgivings about his life inside, he joins a reform-minded warden's efforts to improve the prison, eyeing it as a path to early release. Gaining fulfillment and self-worth, he becomes a valued partner in the new changes before explosive gang resistance forces a deadly choice between the gangster he is and the changing man he knows he now is.
- Sometimes healing comes from the most unexpected places.
- It's a jungle out there. That's how we meet our lead character Jack. It's been five years since he's seen his partner and best friend Twala. Jack did five years for a robbery gone bad. Twala never got caught and Jack never talked. But Twala is as treacherous as Jack is honourable. He's married Jack's former fiancée. Jack wants to go legit but after being rejected for a loan he needs a new source of capital. Twala presents him with an opportunity a job with a R2 million take. The complication is that the mark is Twala's father. Jacks partner for the job is the tough and sexy Olive. Little does he know she will prove to be more devious then his old friend.
- When a troubled young man gets released from prison on good behavior, he goes on a journey to make amends. His mission is compromised when his former gang members want him to do a job for them.
- On what could be the last day of his life, a gangster finds something worth living for.
- Three people board a Johannesburg-bound train. Strangers, each on their own mission with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city, invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots that intersect and intertwine in a gripping, deeply moving, and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and dignity in the city. In the first story, a rural man has been promised a job by his big-city cousin; his earnings will allow him to pay lobola back home, which will change his life forever. He's excited; his cousin is an important man whose patronage the village has relied on for many years. To work for him is a great honour. But on arrival he discovers that the job is not quite what he thought: He is required to kill his cousin's rival. In the second story, a young man is sent to Jozi to reclaim his father's body, but he discovers that the body has already been claimed: his father's hitherto-unknown 'city family' has taken it and they are not giving it back. The young man must find a way to return the body to his rural home or risk the family reputation forever. In the third story, a young woman takes her aunt's young daughter to Joburg to live with her mother for the first time, but she has her own plans to dump the child and finally escape the boredom of rural life to explore her own dreams and ambitions in the city. She soon discovers that her aunt is not who she thought she was: She runs a shebeen and lives with an extremely devious gangster who supports her. She is unable to take care of herself, let alone a small child. The young woman must now choose between her own dreams or saving the child and ruining everything.
- A 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.
- A militant mother gets the opportunity to go back to the past and prevent the tragic accident that took her daughter's life.
- In South Africa's gold-mining region is the subterranean dimension of the Zama Zama, illegal miners that make a living by mining the ore in both operational and abandoned mine shafts. "Zama Zama" is the personal narrative of two brothers: Malcolm, a successful businessman in the mining industry; and his long-lost brother Joseph, one of those who work in the underground tunnels--playing off against the tension of the mines' punitive actions against these miners. The plot revolves around moral choices: social standing and success versus loyalty to and love of family.
- Adapted from Mbongeni Ngema's Broadway production of "Asinamali". On the prison yard on Robben Island, a man named Nelson Mandela told Msizi Dube "Go and do it for all of us, for all our people. So one day we may join you in a free South Africa." After Msizi Dube was released residents of Lamontville Township, with anger and passion in their hearts, demonstrated against proposed rent increases, and led the crowds with a cry of ASINAMALI - We have no money. Dube was later gunned down but his cause and mission had touched the hearts of millions who still believe and follow in what he said. Our story takes place, ten years later in a prison, where a group of inmates are asked to create and perform a stage play for the governor and his associates for a celebration at the prison. These seven inmates, crammed together in a small cell, use their free time at night, after a hard days work, creating the stage play as a way of escaping the reality of where they are.
- Recently released from prison, a man seeks revenge against a former boxer who was responsible for his incarceration.
- Umakoti Wethu is a romcom that explores the complex love triangle that unfolds when a young woman falls in love with the second wife her husband decides to take.
- In a small rural town in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Philani (27) works a dead-end job, living under the shadow of his brother who is a professional soccer player. When Philani draws the attention of a professional cycling team, he is invited to join them at a race about 300 kilometers away. With no means of getting there on his own and no resources, it's inevitable that he has to find a bicycle and ride there himself. He steals his boss's bike and rides off alone against the will of his widowed mother.
- To escape her strict mother and attend boarding school, a mischievous and arrogant Lakhe gets hired to attain matric for a rich girl.
- Emotionally wounded, blaming her father for the loss of her mother. Nozi navigates through life hurdles in search of healing and peace through music.
- When Kay Kay, a powerful, ruthless businessman sets out on a mission of revenge against two men accused of killing his brother, he strong-arms the local sheriff into forming a posse of thugs to aid in his vendetta. But when Jet and Owen, the two easy going friends, learn of the gang out for their blood, they prepare to stand their ground and fight back. It all comes to a head in a final gun-fight, a showdown in the small western town where blood will have to be spilled if the friends wish to come out of this alive.
- Tells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa.
- Set in Alexandra township, South Africa, a brother and sister journey through life knowing they have no one but each other. Schoolgirl Zanele falls in love with an older man where a series of events are set in motion and reveal much more.
- Set in the heart of the hustle and bustle of down town Johannesburg is an undercurrent of crime, a world where only the strongest survive. For those who dare, this is a world of abundant wealth and success.... When Chuks arrives in Johannesburg with the hope of changing his life for the better, little did he know, that soon he would be riding the raging bull of drug smuggling, love and betrayal to eventually become the KING OF JOZI.
- Two young South African artists get stuck at a critical point in their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
- A controlling maid of honor is tasked with planning her best friend's wedding with an easy going best man she abandoned on a date some time back.
- A young man living in a South African township does the unimaginable after discovering he is HIV positive.
- Professor Zamani is respected in the township. He raped one of his young students, but the community has closed its eyes. Many years ago, Zamani rebelled against the politics of Apartheid, but that's now ancient history.
- Two young siblings, Love & Kwaito face life in the harsh Kliptown streets without their parents. Ready to face whatever life throws her way, Love, makes sacrifices that no child should ever have to make.
- Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. This newest documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE) follows the outspoken, multiracial cadre of Thuli, Mildred, Sdudla, Eureka and Jackie, as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities. Neither politics, nor social or racial divisions stand a chance against the united force of the women. Once again Longinotto has managed to bring us an intimate portrait of change from Africa, this time from post-apartheid South Africa, a nation being transformed with hope and energy into a new democracy.
- This is a heartwarming film about a young woman who has commitment issues due to a major heartbreak in her past. After being abandoned at the altar, Amogelang goes on meet a handsome cop (Njabulo) that she assists at the clinic. The two quickly fall in love and Amo begins to feel happy again, but that changes when Njabulo decides to pop the big question during her birthday. Amo says yes, but due to her fears of being abandoned, she ghosts Njabulo during their lobola negotiations. Njabulo is furious and the couple has their first big fight. They say words that they do not mean and both agree that they shouldn't get married. Amo decides to give Njabulo space, but when she eventually goes to his place to talk, she learns that he has moved without telling her first. Not only that, a few months later, Amo also finds out on social media that Njabulo is getting married to someone else. She is completely shattered. Finding it hard to deal with the ordeal, her best friend (Babalwa) convinces her to crash the wedding and get the answers that she wants. At first, Amo struggles with the idea, but decides to go ahead and do it as she needs answers. That's when a heartbroken Amogelang and her friends go on a road trip to crash her fiancé's wedding. On the way they encounter many problems, such as the car giving them problems, giving an old lady a lift and getting hijacked. Will she make it on time and be able to win the love of her life back?
- A potent drama about a South African corporate leader whose past as a violent revolutionary comes back to threaten him.