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- In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
- Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
- Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
- South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
- Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him he couldn't contact their other brother Stephen. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid: not always for the better for Black men.
- 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.
- An undercover cop risks his career (and life) to settle a score.
- A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
- Ha Molefi is an emotional story about a relationship between a grieving father and son, focusing on the raw and honest emotional turmoil that both face, especially concerning the son's identity.
- A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
- 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls follows the lives and loves of four thirty-something women in contemporary Johannesburg, South Africa.
- A thug trades his life of crime for the church life when a pastor's daughter steals his heart But will his love be enough to make the ultimate sacrifice and give his life when his past comes knocking? Clive ditches his criminal ways when he falls in love with Nandi a church girl, but their love is doomed from the beginning facing opposition from Nandi's parents and Jazz, Clive's cousin. Things come to a head when Clive's past is exposed, and he finds himself being rejected like an outcast by the church and Nandi gets a marriage proposal from Mandla who Nandi's parents prefer. In frustration, Clive decides to join Jazz and get back to the life he once knew (crime), and join Jazz's mission is to rob the church. On the day of the hit, Clive takes a bullet to save Nandi and her father and gets his cousin arrested after he tipped the police off and they end up together with the church taking him back as they realize he is not his past.
- An Afrikaans Woman's car breaks down and she's forced to take a minibus taxi. Misunderstandings and cultural confusion see her end up in Soweto, where she learns more about herself
- This series chronicles around a group of four male friends who have been friends from childhood into adulthood. We follow these men as they struggle with the mundane of everyday life and their relationships with strong-willed and opinionated women who refuse to have their voices suppressed.
- USKROEF NO SEXY is a saucy, fresh and sexy comedy from Johannesburg's burgeoning indie film scene. The film is set in Soweto, the apartheid-era township that today is characterized by social unrest and also lively cultural activity (the internationally popular Kwaito music style has its origins in Soweto). "Sexy" is a young dude from the ghetto who has set his sights on Sandton, a high-class "sistah" who treats Sexy like he's out of her league. Sexy's pal and gang mentor Skroef also thinks that Sexy's is biting off more than he can chew. So Skroef poses this challenge: if Sexy can convince Sandton to go on a first date, Skroef will bankroll all subsequent ones - no minor investment, as Sandton is accustomed to stepping out in style.
- Kazimla has had to be a tender age. Sometimes in life, one needs to make lemonade from the lemons that one is handed and always find the silver lining in the very dark clouds that life hands to us
- This film plunges into the lives of a group of African Americans who have come to South Africa to find the American dream.
- Still in his role as the innocent Brit in Africa, ludicrously encumbered by earphones and microphones, Broomfield turns to Chicco Twala - one of South Africa's black millionaires.
- The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business establishment for neo-liberal development policies are not supported by modern economic science. More importantly, it dramatically demonstrates how the implementation of these policies is having disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe.
- Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas who speak of their lives and desires as homosexuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Hammer was invited to have a retrospective in summer, 1994, at the first Gay and Lesbian film festival on the African continent. She wanted to do more than screen her films and videos; she wanted to teach video production skills in the townships. These workshops provide the deeply moving stories lesbians and gays told to one another.
- A crime thriller revolving around the car-theft industry in Soweto.
- Lebo Mathosa was one of South Africa's most promising musicians and kwaito stars. She was destined for great things - until her life was cut tragically short. Revisit her tumultuous life.