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1. Space Mutiny (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Directors: David Winters, Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, James Ryan, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 7,396
2. Yizo yizo (1999– )
1,664 min | Drama
Gritty youth Drama series set in a South African Township.
Stars: Mmabatho Mogomotsi, Lorraine Mphephi, Innocent Masuku, Meshack Mavuso
Votes: 71
3. Storyville (1997– )
45 min | Documentary, Biography
Series showcasing the best in international documentaries.
Stars: Garth Crooks, John M. Francis, Doug Block, Asha Devi
Votes: 187
4. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Not Rated | 128 min | Musical
Live performances of operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 172
5. Rage to Kill (1987)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this ... See full summary »
Director: David Winters | Stars: James Ryan, Oliver Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Cele
Votes: 433
6. Dirty Games (1989)
96 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
The beautiful daughter of a murdered scientist determines to apprehend her father's brutal killer at a nuclear waste site they're both inspecting as part of a team of international ... See full summary »
Director: Gray Hofmeyr | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Valentina Vargas, Ronald France, Michael McGovern
Votes: 70
7. Taste of Rain (2012)
82 min | Drama
Rachel struggles to survive a drought that has hit her farm and her life. A water-diviner brings dramatic changes to her life. She is confronted with a desert deep within herself and discovers a way to survive.
Director: Richard Pakleppa | Stars: Nicola Hanekom, Pope Jerrod, Grant Swanby, Frieda Byl
Votes: 38
8. Sophiatown (2003)
82 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Pascale Lamche | Stars: Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim, Nelson Mandela, Hugh Masekela
Votes: 42
9. Kill Slade (1989)
PG-13 | 84 min | Action, Adventure
Slade (Patrick Dollaghan) is an American mercenary-turned-ranger. J.J. (Lisa Brady) is an American journalist. One of Slade's old compatriots, Flannigan (Danny Keogh) recruits him to kidnap... See full summary »
Director: Bruce McFarlane | Stars: Patrick Dollaghan, Lisa Brady, Danny Keogh, Anthony Fridjhon
Votes: 78
10. Gugu and Andile (2009 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
The year is 1993, democracy is at hand, and South Africa's townships are burning. Gugu, a sixteen year-old from a Zulu speaking family falls in love with Andile, an eighteen year-old Xhosa ... See full summary »
Director: Minky Schlesinger | Stars: Litha Booi, Lungelo Dhladhla, Jabulani Hadebe, Daphney Hlomuka
11. Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001– )
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
The only series on television in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program following artists at work as they transform inspiration into art.
Stars: Charles Atlas, Damien Young, Erika Fortner, Harmony Murphy
Votes: 78
12. Heartlines (2006)
95 min | Drama
After serving a jail sentence for theft, Manyisa, a young man with a cruel past and an uncertain future, is released. He is offered a new chance at life by a well-meaning pastor, Jacob Musi... See full summary »
Director: Angus Gibson | Stars: S'Thandiwe Kgoroge, Mduduzi Mabaso, Mpho Molepo, Mbongeni Ngema
Votes: 11
13. You Gotta Be Crazy! (1986)
84 min | Comedy
A hidden camera records the most unexpected situations.
Directors: Emil Nofal, Dirk de Villiers | Stars: Bill Flynn, Alain D. Woolf, Peter Krummeck, Joseph Ribeiro
Votes: 8
14. Ipi Ntombi: An African Dance Celebration (1997 TV Movie)
90 min
The story of a Johannesburg mine worker told in song and dance.
Director: Clive Morris | Stars: Sophie Mgcina, Velaphi Mnisi, Stella Magaba, Mfana 'Jones' Hlope
Votes: 27
15. Van der Merwe P.I. (1985)
96 min | Comedy
Director: Regardt van den Bergh | Stars: Jurgen Hellberg, Andre Jacobs, Anneline Kriel, Louis Minnaar
Votes: 12
16. Dying for Gold (2018)
99 min | Documentary
For over 120 years hundreds of thousands of black men from the countries of Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce the wealth of South Africa. Today these ... See full summary »
Directors: Catherine Meyburgh, Richard Pakleppa
Votes: 17
17. Tyger Tyger Burning Bright (1988)
98 min | Drama
Director: Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Kitty Aldridge, Arthur Hall, Candice Hillebrand, Michael McCabe
18. Wie Laaste Lag... (1986)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy
THEY PLAYED THE GAME BY A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES.
Director: Koos Roets | Stars: Eric Nobbs, Willie Esterhuizen, James Borthwick, Louw Verwey
Votes: 9
19. Wild Maneuvres (1985)
85 min | Action, Comedy
A unit of green Afrikaner army reservists must take on a dangerous gang of psychopaths straight out of Mad Max and hook up with some pretty girls along the way.
Director: Regardt van den Bergh | Stars: Arnold Vosloo, Janie du Plessis, Ian Roberts, Paul Slabolepszy
Votes: 42
20. The Bushman's Secrets (2006)
64 min | Documentary
South African filmmaker Rehad Desai details the lose-lose situation facing the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert
Director: Rehad Desai | Stars: Dawid Kruiper, Roy Sesana
Votes: 14
21. Wozzeck (2018)
106 min | Music, Drama
A study of a man's physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and grueling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge.
Directors: William Kentridge, Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Matthias Goerne, Asmik Grigorian, John Daszak, Heinz Göhrig
Votes: 5
22. Zero Tolerance (II) (2004)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Zero Tolerance is a South African police procedural television series which follows the adventures of an elite crime-fighting police unit similar to the Scorpions.
Stars: Moshidi Motshegwa, Tony Kgoroge, Ben Kruger, Rajesh Gopie
23. Buddha in Africa (2019)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A Malawian boy, raised in a Buddhist orphanage, struggles to retain his cultural identity.
Director: Nicole Schafer | Star: Enock Alu
Votes: 77
24. Jogo de Corpo. Capoeira e Ancestralidade (2013)
87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
BODY GAMES presents a sensual tapestry of combat games from both sides of the Atlantic. It tells a story driven by Mestre Cobra Mansa's need to understand the ancestry of his art form, ... See full summary »
Directors: Matthias Assunção, Mestre Cobra Mansa, Richard Pakleppa | Stars: Mestre Cobra Mansa, Cinézio Peçanha
Votes: 15
25. Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (1999)
11 min | Short
With his side bleeding, a man called Shadow limps through a black and white landscape of burned out buildings, funeral processions, and memories that are in color. He wants to bathe, to ... See full summary »
Director: Teboho Mahlatsi | Stars: Ronnie Nyakale, Meshack Mavuso, Patrick Ndlovu, Ernest Msibi
Votes: 36
26. Magic Is Alive, My Friends (1985)
98 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Jan Scholtz | Stars: Richard Loring, Anne Power, Bill Flynn, Bill Curry
27. The Guguletu Seven (2000)
105 min | Documentary
Investigates the tragic deaths of a group of young black South Africans in 1986. Originally reported as a terrorist ambush thwarted by the police, the story behind the incident is uncovered... See full summary »
Director: Lindy Wilson
29. Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Khalo Matabane asks global thinkers, Apartheid-victims and Mandela's entourage to classify Nelson Mandela's achievements, thereby providing a multifaceted approach to his myth.
Director: Khalo Matabane | Stars: Khalo Matabane, Nelson Mandela, Greg Marinovich, Zubeida Jaffer
Votes: 55
30. Crossing the Line (2005 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama
CROSSING THE LINE is a contemporary political thriller that confronts some of the dilemmas around power and corruption in South Africa. From the writer/director of THE LINE which was ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Tilley | Stars: Robert Hobbs, Lionel Newton, Akin Omotoso, Thembi Seete
31. Angola: Saudades de Quem te Ama (2005)
65 min | Documentary
Director Richard Pakleppa takes his camera into the streets of Angola to capture stories from all sections of society
Director: Richard Pakleppa
Votes: 11
32. The Refusal of Time (2012)
29 min | Short
"The Refusal of Time" is an installation of five synchronized video projections, four megaphones around the room emitting different soundscapes as well as a large breathing machine, or elephant, at the center of the room.
Director: William Kentridge
Votes: 11
33. William Kentridge's 'The Head and the Load' (2018 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
This film explores the creation of South African artist William Kentridge's most ambitious project to date, 'The Head and the Load', which combines music, dance, film projections and more.
Directors: Adam Low, William Kentridge | Star: Mario Gotoh
34. A Man for All Seasons (II) (2014)
43 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Hunter-gatherer, artist, philosopher, teacher, one-man-band and loving husband and father, the versatile and irrepressible Han Shwe is something of a Burmese 'Renaissance man'. This ... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Meyburgh
35. I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine (2008)
Animation, Short
A man wakes up and discovers his nose is missing. In the absurdist story he tries to find it. The story is based on the novel The Nose (1836) from Nikolaj Gogo.
36. Accused #1: Nelson Mandela (2004 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Pascale Lamche | Stars: Fresh Skiwane, George Bizos, Ilse Fischer, Denis Goldberg
Votes: 16
37. Learning the Flute (2003)
8 min | Animation, Short, Music
"Learning the Flute" is a stop-motion animation film, the visual preparation for William Kentridge's famous 2005 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which premiered at the Brussels Royal Opera House in Belgium.
Director: William Kentridge
38. Bettie (2015)
76 min | Documentary
Directors: Lika Berning, Jana Cilliers, Catherine Meyburgh | Stars: Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Jana Cilliers, Lika Berning, Pik Botha
40. Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (2009)
71 min | Documentary, Biography
A Politics and African Studies graduate, Kentridge also studied mime in Paris and worked in television. Arguably South Africa's best-known artist, he was included in the 2009 Time 100 list.... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Meyburgh | Stars: Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge
41. Die Jare Daarna .... (1986)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Ryno Hattingh, Joanie Combrink, Cathy Beard, Kristie Herbst
42. Die Zauberflöte il Flauto Magico (2011)
164 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
South African-born artist and director William Kentridge is the stage director for this captivating and thought-provoking production of Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, with the RAI version directed by Patrizia Carmine.
Directors: Patrizia Carmine, William Kentridge | Stars: Günther Groissböck, Saimir Pirgu, Detlef Roth, Albina Shagimuratova
Votes: 10
43.
Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001– )
Episode:
Compassion
(2009)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary
This episode features artists whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
Director: Catherine Tatge | Stars: Sergio Clavijo, Carlos Andres Granada, Gyun Hur, William Kentridge
44.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Shostakovich: The Nose
(2013)
Not Rated | 127 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Pavel Smelkov, Patricia Racette, Paulo Szot, Vladimir Ognovenko
Votes: 26
45.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Berg: Lulu
(2015)
Not Rated | 234 min | Musical
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Lothar Koenigs, Deborah Voigt, Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham
Votes: 19
46.
Storyville (1997– )
Episode:
The Real Great Escape
(2012)
83 min | Documentary, Biography
Showcase of international documentaries. This episode features Lindy Wilson's film about her uncle, Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, the real life mastermind behind World War II's Great Escape.
Director: Lindy Wilson | Stars: John M. Francis, Janet Suzman, Radek Boschetty, Heimo Schulzer
Votes: 11