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Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Kudzai Chimbaira, Farai Veremu, Natasha Gandi, Mildred Chipuriro, Phinneus Ncube
Synopsis: A young woman looking for a better life faces both danger and disappointment in this independent drama from South Africa, shot with a bare-bones crew to give the material a more immediate look and feel. Zimbabwe (Kudzai Chimbaira) is a nineteen-year-old girl who is left alone in the world when her Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Melissa Leo, Joey Dedio, Lisa Marie Schneider, Renier Basson, Richard Njoki
Synopsis: A woman will go to any lengths to protect her wayward son in this thriller from South African filmmaker Darrell James Roodt. Stephanie (Melissa Leo) is a middle-aged woman living in Tennessee, where she waits tables to help her family make ends meet. Her son Steven (Renier Basson) has fallen in Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Jamie Bartlett, Carly Schroeder
Synopsis: An American family on vacation in Africa are stalked by lions after becoming lost in a game reserve in director Darrell James Roodt's fierce, wilderness-based thriller. Bridget Moynahan and Peter Weller star in a film produced by Videovision Entertainment and released to stateside screens by The Read More
Actors: Renate Stuurman, Abrina Bosman, Raymond Basson
Synopsis: Director Darrell James Roodt teams with producer Anant Singh for this quiet, modestly budgeted tale of a young girl who longs to get an education rather than working on the family goat farm. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Thobani Khybeka, Sibonelo Xulu, Ivy Nkutha
Synopsis: Controversial South African helmer Darrell James Roodt (Sarafina!, Yesterday), writes and directs the experimental melodrama Faith's Corner. The effort (which recalls and suggests influence by Ousmane Sembene's 1966 Borom Sarret) weaves the tale of an impoverished mother named Faith (Leleti Read More
Synopsis: The undead discover a new home in the far reaches of space in this blend of science fiction, action, and horror. In the year 3000 A.D., the crew of a commercial space freighter happens upon the wreckage of the Demeter, a massive space ship that has been missing for nearly a century. Aware Read More
Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Kambule, Harriet Lehabe, Camilla Walker
Synopsis: A impoverished young mother with few creature comforts but an unbreakable spirit determines to see that her growing daughter receives an education after suffering a crippling setback in this affecting drama from director Darrell James Roodt. Yesterday's family is poor, and despite the daily toil Read More
Actors: Robert Patrick, Lauren Holly, Barry "Shabaka" Henley, Danny Keogh
Synopsis: A woman endures the painful birth of her child. Two doctors argue about the ethics of saving the horribly malformed child's life. Years later, a nurse is found brutally tortured and murdered, hundreds of syringes plunged into her, and Buckley Clarke (Lauren Holly), a tough homicide cop, is Read More
Actors: Natasha Henstridge, Angus MacFadyen, Peter Fonda
Synopsis: A man trying to turn a new page in his life unexpectedly finds the lady in his life skimming through some previous chapters in this crime drama. Sam Kane (Angus MacFadyen) is a man trying to run away from his past; he's moved to a small town and opened a book shop in hopes of starting his life Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames, Eric Miyeni
Synopsis: In this drama, a South African exile returns to his homeland to find that justice hasn't brought peace. Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) is a student and political activist living in San Francisco; he was born in South Africa, but his connection to anti-apartheid rebels made his family fear for his life Read More
Actors: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo, Charles S. Dutton
Synopsis: Alan Paton's classic novel about two fathers coming to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid was brought to the screen for a second time with this adaptation, the first major film produced in South Africa after Nelson Mandela's Read More
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Sabrina Lloyd, Brian Bonsall, Michael Ironside
Synopsis: Deadbeat dads be damned. Patrick Swayze plays a con man who tries to live up to the ideals of "family values" by kidnapping his son and daughter from the evil clutches of a corrupt orphanage and taking them on a cross-country trip in his vintage convertible. To complicate matters, his daughter has Read More
Synopsis: A kickboxer decides he would like to retire, but tragically, his wife is killed in an explosion which sends him back into the ring. Soon he is involved in an unnaturally violent and crooked tournament. After finding out who is responsible for his wife's death he is intent upon revenge. ~ Kristie Read More
Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Mbongeni Ngema
Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. An adaptation of Mbongeni Ngema's popular musical, which ran on Broadway from 1988 to 1989, Sarafina! recounts the political coming of age of the Read More
Synopsis: Jobman (Kevin Smith) is not only deaf, but he was born without a tongue, rendering him definitively mute. To add to his tribulations, he is black and living in apartheid-era South Africa. His father was a preacher, which would normally confer a pretty high social rank on him, but he is, in the Read More
Actors: Joe Stewardson, Ian Yule, Liz Dick, Susan Coetzer, Ken Gampu
Synopsis: South African medical examiner Joe Stewardson investigates a rash of prostitute murders, all with the same gruesome MO. While pursuing this case, Stewardson is pressured by the government to declare that the death of a known black activist, killed while in police custody, was due to heart failure. Read More
Actors: Sean Taylor, Greg Latter, Franz Dobrowsky, Winston Ntshona, Gys de Villiers
Synopsis: A group of eight South African mercenaries are driven to fatigue and insanity in this violent anti-war drama. Cooper (Sean Taylor) narrates as one of the soldiers led by the bloodthirsty O'Grady (Greg Latter). Set out on a search-and-destroy mission, the group kills a young cowherd and a witch Read More
Actors: James Whyle, Gcina Mhlophe, Charles Comyn, Norman Coombes, Michelle Du Toit
Synopsis: It took many years of filmmaking in South Africa before this first anti-apartheid drama saw the light of the silver screen. Commendable for its ground-breaking message, its scenes of suffering at the hands of white oppressors are well-integrated with a completely realistic storyline. After a black Read More
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