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Tag Archives: South Africa
Beauty and the Beast (2005) David Lister, Jane March, Justin Whalin, William Gregory Lee
Freya is the clan princess, pursued by Sven who wants only to become king after King Thorsson dies. Read More »
Stander (2003) Bronwen Hughes, Thomas Jane, David O’Hara, Dexter Fletcher
In the early 1980’s, a white police officer (Andres Stander, played by Thomas Jane) in Johannesburg suffers a crisis Read More »
I’m for the Hippopotamus AKA Io sto con gli ippopotami (1979) Italo Zingarelli, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner
In Africa, many years ago, Slim and Tom don’t like it when a German tyrant Read More »
The Jackals (1967) Robert D. Webb, Vincent Price, Diana Ivarson, Robert Gunner
Bandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »
The Wooden Camera (2003) Ntshaveni Wa Luruli, Junior Singo, Dana de Agrella, Innocent Msimango
Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Read More »
Flashpoint Africa (1980) Francis Megahy, Gayle Hunnicutt, James Faulkner, Siegfried Rauch
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. Read More »
Wild Season (1967) Emil Nofal, Gert van den Bergh, Marie du Toit, Joe Stewardson
A beautifully filmed melodrama concerning the generation gap clash at its worst as a stern forbidding Read More »
The Naked Prey (1965) Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. Read More »
The Cape Town Affair (1967) Robert D. Webb, James Brolin, Jacqueline Bisset, Claire Trevor
South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. Read More »
Layla Fourie (2013) Pia Marais, Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. Read More »
Dust Devil (1992) Richard Stanley, Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae
A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call “The Dust Devil”. Read More »
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) Jamie Uys, N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time–in the shape of a Coke bottle. Read More »
Survivor (1987) Michael Shackleton, Christopher Mayer, Richard Moll, Sue Kiel, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Returning from outer space, an astronaut calling himself “The Survivor” finds a nuclear war has left the Earth as a desert wasteland. Read More »