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1. Wyfie (2024– )

25 min | Drama

An edgy, youthful, and urban drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and walk a thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive the adult challenges and dilemmas they face.

Stars: Celeste Loots, Kristen Raath, Beata Bena Green, Mienke Ehlers

Votes: 19

2. Die Byl (2016– )

75 min | Crime, Drama

"Die Byl" is a film based on real South African detective Piet van der Bijl, known for his 99% success rate in tracking serial killers.

Stars: Lika Berning, Milan Murray, Marvin-Lee Beukes, Waldemar Schultz

Votes: 65

3. Donkerland (2013– )

42 min | Drama

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

Stars: Lida Botha, Heléne Lombard, Jacques Bessenger, Rolanda Marais

Votes: 32

4. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: I Only Wanted Advice, Tannie (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A terrified Maria flees into the bush just as the police arrive. The search for Jessie continues into the night and the entire community rallies. Maria's past catches up to her.

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 70

5. Fynskrif (Fine Print) (2018–2020)

Drama

A law firm in South Africa takes on various cases, while the partners and associates need to balance their personal lives and keep the firm alive.

Stars: Cintaine Schutte, Beer Adriaanse, Neels van Jaarsveld, Chris van Niekerk

Votes: 50

6. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: The Shortening of the Way (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie searches for the little girl that found him in the desert to seek help in controlling his visions. At first she helps him visit the Alphaverse, just in time before the Vexcor ... See full summary »

Director: Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 43

7. Die Spreeus (2019)

Crime, Horror

The "Spreeus" take on cases that make other detectives' hair stand on end. Bas and Beatrice are the fearless members of an investigative unit which tracks crime into other worlds.

Stars: Chris Vorster, Monique Rockman, Sandi Schultz, Bongo Mbutuma

Votes: 54

8. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Flesh (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On the death of Brion Boxer a power struggle, for the control of Vex-Cor, develops between Essa Rompkin and 01 Boxer. Brion leaves his Vex-Cor shares to 01, his son, which gives him control... See full summary »

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 43

9. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Ouroboros (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie and his allies desperately search for a way to keep the link from activating and destroying Beta, but one of their own has other plans.

Director: Pierre Gill | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 41

10. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Identity (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie discovers that a childhood friend, Gemma, from Alphaverse, works for Vexcor in Betaverse as a hydrologist. O1 Boxer discovers polluted water in Gammaverse and decides to return to ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Desrochers | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 42

11. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: The Enemy of My Enemy (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After receiving a package with information on Vexcor, Charlie and Karl track the anonymous source, Reena. Meanwhile, 01 Boxer and Julius come to an arrangement.

Director: Alain Desrochers | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 43

12. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Bedtime Story (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Back in Alpha, Charlie considers how he has been changed by his time in Beta. 01 meets with a mysterious associate.

Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 43

13. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: Scrambled Eggs (2022)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A frantic search is on for Jessie. Revelations start to make sense of the mystery of Martine's death, as well as Maria's past.

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 49

14. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Choosing Sides (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie decides to find out how O1 Boxer travels between universes and see if he can take him back to the BetaVerse, but O1 gets taken in by the police first. So Charlie impersonates an FBI... See full summary »

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 41

15. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: Pomegranate Juice and Vodka (2022)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The relentless attention from Scotland is starting to get to Maria, while she tries to help a woman in danger of losing her faith. Jessie's life is put in real danger.

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 51

16. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: Breakfast for Dinner (2022)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dirk and Anna drive the police to distraction. The town attends Martine's funeral but then there's a near death at the reception. Khaya and Maria share their suspicions.

Director: Karen Jeynes | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 56

17. Waterfront (2017– )

60 min | Drama

ShowMax and kykNET have collaborated to produce a Showmax-exclusive series called "Waterfront". The star-studded family drama is set in the underworld of one of South Africa's leading ... See full summary »

Stars: Rolanda Marais, Milan Murray, Trix Vivier, Edwin van der Walt

Votes: 36

18. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: A Shoe Murder (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tannie Maria and Jessie take their shoes off before they sneak into a house. Later She comes home and finds her missing shoes sitting on her front porch cut in half as a warning. She reports her murdered shoes to detective Khaya.

Director: Karen Jeynes | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 55

19. High Rollers (2013– )

Drama

A tumultuous saga set in the Kings Casino, following the loves, losses, dealings, and double-crosses of the three King brothers, their families, and their employees.

Stars: Antony Coleman, Rolanda Marais, Justin Strydom, Carine Rous

Votes: 9

20. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: Enough Sweet Potatoes (2022)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hattie fights off an attempt at censorship by the town council. The sinister messages from Scotland continue to plague Maria, while she tries to resolve a family feud.

Director: Karen Jeynes | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 56

21. Charlie Jade (2005)
Episode: Things Unseen (2005)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police woman Blues Paddock reveals to Charlie he's being hunted. They decide to investigate Vexcor together, while being drawn to each other. After Blues saves Charlie from an assassination... See full summary »

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Patricia McKenzie, Michele Burgers

Votes: 42

22. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )
Episode: Operation Vetkoek (2022)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The community says goodbye to Lawrence and Martine's cousin arrives to take charge of her funeral. Maria and Jessie attempt to interview a befuddled Dirk and Maria uses mince to solve a teenage identity crisis.

Director: Karen Jeynes | Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 53

23. Recipes for Love and Murder (2022– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Stars: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tony Kgoroge, Kylie Fisher, Elton Landrew

Votes: 1,351

24. Binnelanders (2005– )

Drama

Binnelanders (2005) The stories revolve around the lives of a dedicated group of professionals at the clinic who are committed to healing their patients' sufferings.

Stars: Hans Strydom, Reynardt Hugo, Hykie Berg, Clint Brink

Votes: 59

25. Ballade vir 'n Enkeling (2015)

139 min | Mystery

After a prolific South African writer disappears, a journalist is motivated by ambition to uncover the writer's secret history.

Director: Quentin Krog | Stars: DonnaLee Roberts, Armand Aucamp, Rolanda Marais, Jacques Bessenger

Votes: 349

26. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2019)

TV-MA | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After shooting Nkunzi, Lemmer steals a car and is pursued by the PBI. Having slept with Becker, Milla is in trouble when he comes to the attention of the PBI. When confronted Becker tells ... See full summary »

Director: Jyri Kähönen | Stars: Ed Stoppard, James Gracie, Sandi Schultz, Rolanda Marais

Votes: 78

27. Donkerbos (2022–2023)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.

Stars: Erica Wessels, Wilhelm van der Walt, Edwin van der Walt, Thoko Ntshinga

Votes: 321

28. Johnny is nie dood nie (2016)

106 min | Drama

In 2002, Johannes Kerkorrel, lead singer of the Gereformeerde Blues Band, has just committed suicide, and a group of friends gathers to celebrate his life and the end of an era. Flashbacks ... See full summary »

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Rolanda Marais, Albert Pretorius, Ilana Cilliers, Ludwig Binge

Votes: 113

29. Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee (2013)

108 min | Drama

Music producer Len has it all, the perfect life. Until he's caught embezzoling his music artists money. He get's a second chance when young up and coming artist Robbie de Wee enters his life. But all is not as it seems.

Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Neil Sandilands, Marno van der Merwe, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Leandri Scholtz

Votes: 30

30. Donkerbos (2022–2023)
Episode: The Dogs (2023)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

The story of how a little boy, through slow, deliberate neglect and mishandling, becomes a dark angel.

Director: Nico Scheepers | Stars: Erica Wessels, Wilhelm van der Walt, Edwin van der Walt, Rolanda Marais

Votes: 7

31. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The hunt intensifies for Flea and the missing diamonds. Lucas Becker seeks payback for the car jacking. Shabangu threatens action against anyone getting in his way. The Presidential Bureau of Intelligence seeks help from CIA.

Director: Jyri Kähönen | Stars: Ed Stoppard, James Gracie, Sandi Schultz, Rolanda Marais

Votes: 82

32. Charlie Jade (2005)

45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A missing persons detective finds himself caught between three parallel universes.

Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Michael Filipowich, Michele Burgers, Tyrone Benskin

Votes: 1,184

33. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Still trying to prove CiA covert ops on SA soil, Milla is arrested and interrogated by Janina Mentz. Shahid is in hospital and Daoud is told about the missing laptop. Flea gets Lemmer to ... See full summary »

Director: Jyri Kähönen | Stars: Keenan Arrison, Masali Baduza, Inge Beckmann, Tamer Burjaq

Votes: 72

34. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2019)

TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama

The PBI moves in on Osman's men. Janina and Lemmer team up to reveal the truth behind the diamond/weapon exchange. Mila's loyalties are tested. New information about Flea's death surfaces.

Stars: Keenan Arrison, Carishma Badsay, Tamer Burjaq, Brendon Daniels

Votes: 18

35. Poppie Nongena (2019)

106 min | Biography, Drama

Based on Elsa Joubert's novel "The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena," regarded as one of the best African novels of the 20th century.

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Clementine Mosimane, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Nomsa Nene, Chris Gxalaba

Votes: 167

36. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

With Osman in a coma, Daoud takes over the diamond exchange. Flae appeals to Lemmer for backup. Janina makes a discovery about the PBI.

Director: Jyri Kähönen | Stars: Keenan Arrison, Tamer Burjaq, Emmanuel Castis, David Dukas

Votes: 72

37. Trackers (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Undercover informant Ishmael is shot trying to escape a suspected terror group. The Presidential Bureau of Intelligence agency suspects big plans in motion involving the Stadium. Milla ... See full summary »

Director: Jyri Kähönen | Stars: Keenan Arrison, Tamer Burjaq, Emmanuel Castis, Leon Clingman

Votes: 106

38. Griekwastad (2019)

103 min | Crime

In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christelle and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true-crime novel by ... See full summary »

Director: Jozua Malherbe | Stars: Arnold Vosloo, Alex van Dyk, Jane de Wet, Tim Theron

Votes: 182

39. The Seagull (II) (2018)

125 min | Comedy, Drama

A modern adaption of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL: a famous actress pays summer visits to her brother and her son on their country estate, and one year she brings along her lover, a ... See full summary »

Director: Christiaan Olwagen | Stars: Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Albert Pretorius, Rolanda Marais

Votes: 52

40. Boy Kills World (2023)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Director: Moritz Mohr | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery

Votes: 974

41. Free State (2016)

98 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A random act of kindness sparks a forbidden love affair between a white girl and an Indian man during the Apartheid system in South Africa.

Director: Salmon de Jager | Stars: Nicola Breytenbach, Andrew Govender, Leleti Khumalo, Deon Lotz

Votes: 122

42. Trackers (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Action series featuring various stories of organized crime, diamond smuggling, Black Rhinos, the CIA and terrorism in Cape Town, South Africa.

Stars: James Gracie, Sandi Schultz, Rolanda Marais, Thapelo Mokoena

Votes: 1,363

43. Out on a Limb (2005)

103 min | Comedy

Take one television chef past his sell by date, add two armed robbers, stir in the police and simmer for three days. Bring to the boil and serve with a dressing of sexual tension and confusion.

Director: Robert Heath | Stars: Henry Goodman, Neil Stuke, Julianne White, Costa Milton

Votes: 83

44. Sulphur and White (2020)

121 min | Drama

City trader and mountaineer David Tait is a man whose professional success masks a series of traumatic secrets.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Mark Stanley, Anna Friel, Hugo Stone, Dee Rasedile

Votes: 286

45. Wolwedans in die Skemer (2012)

94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Shrouded in a veil of mystery, Sonja Daneel arrives at the luxurious Hotel Njala, which belongs to the Joubert family, to start as the establishment's new receptionist. However, following a... See full summary »

Director: Jozua Malherbe | Stars: Rolanda Marais, David Louw, Gérard Rudolf, Desiré Gardner

Votes: 159

46. Borderline (2002 TV Movie)

R | 94 min | Crime, Thriller

Lila, a prison psychiatrist, loses custody over her 2 daughters in connection with a divorce. The ex and his girlfriend are murdered. Is one of Lila's ex-patients behind it? Is she? What does Lila's police detective S.O. think?

Director: Evelyn Purcell | Stars: Gina Gershon, Michael Biehn, Sean Patrick Flanery, Natasha Napoli

Votes: 1,344

47. Styx (2001 Video)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After establishing himself as one of the world's best safe-crackers, Nelson decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However, when his brother is targeted ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Wright | Stars: Peter Weller, Bryan Brown, Angus Macfadyen, Gérard Rudolf

Votes: 491

48. Dead Easy (2004)

R | 97 min | Crime, Thriller

Simon Storm is an American executive sent to work in South Africa. His cheating wife won't agree to a divorce, so his mistress convinces him to kill her. Drunk, he hires a P.I., who turns out to be a serial killer and blackmailer.

Director: Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Richard Grieco, Thandi Puren, Joanna Pacula, Ron Smerczak

Votes: 231

49. Global Effect (2002)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Terrorists steal the only clue to a deadly virus that has been unleashed in Africa.

Director: Terry Cunningham | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Daniel Bernhardt, Joel West, Arnold Vosloo

Votes: 375

50. Die Testament (2019– )

Drama

Die Testament is the story of family and legacy, of creation and destruction, of secrets and lies. The series plays out in the opulent world of upper-class Cape Town just after the ... See full summary »

Stars: Rolanda Marais, Nico Panagio, Andahr Cotton, Amrain Ismail-Essop