List of South African films
Encyclopedia
This is a chronology of films produced in South Africa
or by the South African film industry
.
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
|-
| | 1980
|-
| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Marigolds in August
||Ross Devenish
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
|-
| | 1981
|-
| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
|| ||
|-
| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
|| ||
|-
| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
|-
| | 1982
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1983
|-
| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
|| || ||
|-
| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
|| ||
|-
| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
|-
| | 1984
|-
| You're in the Movies
|| Emil Nofal
|| || ||
|-
| | 1985
|-
| King Solomon's Mines
|| J. Lee Thompson
|| Richard Chamberlain
, Sharon Stone
, Herbert Lom
, John Rhys-Davies
|| ||
|-
| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
|-
| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
|-
| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
|| ||
|-
| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
|-
| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
|| Bill Flynn
, Amanda Forrow || ||
|-
| | 1986
|-
| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
|-
| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
|-
| Outlaw of Gor
|| John Cardos
|| || ||
|-
| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1987
|-
| Across the Rubicon || || || ||
|-
| An African Dream || || || ||
|-
| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
|| || ||
|-
| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
|-
| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
|-
| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
|-
| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
|-
| Platoon Leader
|| Aaron Norris
|| || ||
|-
| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
|| || ||
|-
| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| Tusks || Tara Moore
|| || ||
|-
| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
|-
| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1988
|-
| Alien from L.A.
|| Albert Pyun
|| || ||
|-
| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
|-
| Act of Piracy
|| || || ||
|-
| Any Man's Death || || || ||
|-
| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
, Jana Cilliers || ||
|-
| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
|| ||
|-
| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
|| || ||
|-
| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
|-
| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
|-
| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
, Charles Mariott || || ||
|-
| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
|| Lucky Dube
|| ||
|-
| Mapantsula
|| Oliver Schmitz
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
|-
| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
|-
| Nightslave || John Parr
|| || ||
|-
| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
|-
| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
|| || ||
|-
| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
|| ||
|-
| Space Mutiny
|| David Winters
|| Cameron Mitchell
|| Sci Fi
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
This is a chronology of films produced in South Africa
or by the South African film industry
.
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language !! Notes
|-
| | 1916
|-
| De Voortrekkers || Harold Shaw
|| Dick Cruickshanks, Goba || Historical epic || || South Africa's white supremacist Birth of a Nation depicts Boer pioneers' northward expansion
|-
| An Artist's Dream || Denis Sanbry || Dick Cruickshanks || Romantic drama || || Animation
|-
| | 1919
|-
| Allan Quatermain
|| Lisle Lucoque || Ray Brown, George Taylor
|| Adventure ||
|-
| | 1931
|-
| Sarie Marais || Joseph Albrecht || Billy Mathews || || Afrikaans
|| First South African film with sound
|-
| | 1948
|-
| Die kaskenades van Dr. Kwak || || || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1949
|-
| African Jim || || || ||
|-
| Kom saam, vanaand || || || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| Sarie Marais || Francis Coley || || || Afrikaans || Remake of 1931 film
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language!! Notes
|-
| | 1950
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1951
|-
| Alles sal Regkom || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
|| Comedy || Afrikaans
||
|-
| Daar doer in die bosveld || Jamie Uys
|| || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1952
|-
| Altyd in my drome || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
|| Musical Comedy || Afrikaans||
|-
| | 1953
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1954
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1955
|-
| Matieland! || Pierre de Wet ||Steyn de Jager, Wynona Cheyney, Frederik Burgers || Romantic Comedy || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1956
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1957
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1958
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1959
|-
| Come Back, Africa
|| Lionel Rogosin
|| Bloke Modisane, Miriam Makeba
|| Documentary || English
, Fanakalo, Afrikaans
, Zulu
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language !! Notes
|-
| | 1960
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1961
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1962
|-
| Lord Oom Piet || || || || Afrikaans
||
|-
| | 1963
|-
| The Anatomy of Apartheid || || || Documentary || English
||
|-
| | 1964
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1965
|-
| Dingaka
|| Jamie Uys
|| Ken Gampu
, Stanley Baker
, Juliet Prowse, Bob Courtney
|| Drama || Afrikaans, English||
|-
| All the Way to Paris
|| Jamie Uys
|| Jamie Uys
, Joe Stewardson
, Emil Nofal
|| || ||
|-
| African Gold || || || || ||
|-
| Coast of Skeletons || || || || ||
|-
| | 1966
|-
| The Naked Prey
|| Cornel Wilde
|| Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu
, Patrick Mynhardt
|| Adventure || English, Africaans, Nguni languages|| co-produced with U.S.
|-
| | 1967
|-
| After You, Comrade || Jamie Uys
|| || || ||
|-
| Seven Against the Sun || || || || ||
|-
| | 1968
|-
| Oupa for sale || || || || ||
|-
| Die Ruiter in die nag || || || || ||
|-
| Doctor Kalie || || || || ||
|-
|-
| | 1969
|-
| Die Geheim van Nantes || || || || ||
|-
| Lost in the Desert
|| Jamie Uys
|| Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys
& Pieter Hauptfleisch || Adventure || English, Afrikaans||
|-
| Katrina (film)
|| Jans Rautenbach
||Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland & Don Leonard
|| || ||
|-
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language!! Notes
|-
| | 1970
|-
| Vicki
|| Ivan Hall || Sandra Britz , Leonie Ross, Johan Esterhuizen || Romance||Afrikaans|| Filmed in South Africa - Durban, Margate
|-
| Shangani Patrol
|| David Millin || Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins
|| War || || Filmed in Rhodesia
|-
| | 1971
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1972
|-
| Kaptein Caprivi || || || || ||
|-
| Those Naughty Angels || Neil Hetherington || || Family Adventure || ||
|-
| | 1973
|-
| Mr Kingstreet's War || || || || ||
|-
| Die Voortrekkers || || || || ||
|-
| Snip en Rissiepit || || || || ||
|-
| | 1974
|-
| Animals Are Beautiful People
|| Jamie Uys
||Paddy O'Byrne ||Comedy-documentary || English ||
|-
| Boesman and Lena
|| Ross Devenish
|| Athol Fugard
|| || ||
|-
| Ongewenste Vreemdeling || || || || ||
|-
| Dans van die Flamink || || || || ||
|-
| Dooie Duikers deel nie || || || || ||
|-
| | 1975
|-
| Dingetjie is Dynamite || || || || ||
|-
| | 1976
|-
| e'Lollipop|| || Muntu Ndebele & Norman Knox || || ||
|-
| Albino
|| Jürgen Goslar
|| Christopher Lee
, James Faulkner
& Sybil Danning
|| Thriller || English || Filmed in Rhodesia
|-
| | 1977
|-
| Tigers Don't Cry || || || || ||
|-
| Funeral for an Assassin
|| Ivan Hall || Vic Morrow
|| Crime
|| English
||
|-
| | 1978
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1979
|-
| Night of the Puppets || Daan Retief || || || ||
|-
| Plekkie in die Son || William Faure || || || ||
|-
| The Gods Must Be Crazy
|| Jamie Uys
|| N!xau
, Sandra Prinsloo
, Marius Weyers
, Louw Verwey || Comedy || || English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi ||
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
|-
| | 1980
|-
| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Marigolds in August
||Ross Devenish
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
|-
| | 1981
|-
| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
|| ||
|-
| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
|| ||
|-
| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
|-
| | 1982
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1983
|-
| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
|| || ||
|-
| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
|| ||
|-
| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
|-
| | 1984
|-
| You're in the Movies
|| Emil Nofal
|| || ||
|-
| | 1985
|-
| King Solomon's Mines
|| J. Lee Thompson
|| Richard Chamberlain
, Sharon Stone
, Herbert Lom
, John Rhys-Davies
|| ||
|-
| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
|-
| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
|-
| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
|| ||
|-
| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
|-
| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
|| Bill Flynn
, Amanda Forrow || ||
|-
| | 1986
|-
| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
|-
| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
|-
| Outlaw of Gor
|| John Cardos
|| || ||
|-
| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1987
|-
| Across the Rubicon || || || ||
|-
| An African Dream || || || ||
|-
| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
|| || ||
|-
| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
|-
| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
|-
| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
|-
| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
|-
| Platoon Leader
|| Aaron Norris
|| || ||
|-
| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
|| || ||
|-
| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| Tusks || Tara Moore
|| || ||
|-
| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
|-
| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1988
|-
| Alien from L.A.
|| Albert Pyun
|| || ||
|-
| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
|-
| Act of Piracy
|| || || ||
|-
| Any Man's Death || || || ||
|-
| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
, Jana Cilliers || ||
|-
| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
|| ||
|-
| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
|| || ||
|-
| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
|-
| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
|-
| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
, Charles Mariott || || ||
|-
| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
|| Lucky Dube
|| ||
|-
| Mapantsula
|| Oliver Schmitz
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
|-
| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
|-
| Nightslave || John Parr
|| || ||
|-
| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
|-
| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
|| || ||
|-
| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
|| ||
|-
| Space Mutiny
|| David Winters
|| Cameron Mitchell
|| Sci Fi
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
This is a chronology of films produced in South Africa
or by the South African film industry
.
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language !! Notes
|-
| | 1916
|-
| De Voortrekkers || Harold Shaw
|| Dick Cruickshanks, Goba || Historical epic || || South Africa's white supremacist Birth of a Nation depicts Boer pioneers' northward expansion
|-
| An Artist's Dream || Denis Sanbry || Dick Cruickshanks || Romantic drama || || Animation
|-
| | 1919
|-
| Allan Quatermain
|| Lisle Lucoque || Ray Brown, George Taylor
|| Adventure ||
|-
| | 1931
|-
| Sarie Marais || Joseph Albrecht || Billy Mathews || || Afrikaans
|| First South African film with sound
|-
| | 1948
|-
| Die kaskenades van Dr. Kwak || || || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1949
|-
| African Jim || || || ||
|-
| Kom saam, vanaand || || || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| Sarie Marais || Francis Coley || || || Afrikaans || Remake of 1931 film
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language!! Notes
|-
| | 1950
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1951
|-
| Alles sal Regkom || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
|| Comedy || Afrikaans
||
|-
| Daar doer in die bosveld || Jamie Uys
|| || || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1952
|-
| Altyd in my drome || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
|| Musical Comedy || Afrikaans||
|-
| | 1953
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1954
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1955
|-
| Matieland! || Pierre de Wet ||Steyn de Jager, Wynona Cheyney, Frederik Burgers || Romantic Comedy || Afrikaans ||
|-
| | 1956
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1957
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1958
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1959
|-
| Come Back, Africa
|| Lionel Rogosin
|| Bloke Modisane, Miriam Makeba
|| Documentary || English
, Fanakalo, Afrikaans
, Zulu
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language !! Notes
|-
| | 1960
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1961
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1962
|-
| Lord Oom Piet || || || || Afrikaans
||
|-
| | 1963
|-
| The Anatomy of Apartheid || || || Documentary || English
||
|-
| | 1964
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1965
|-
| Dingaka
|| Jamie Uys
|| Ken Gampu
, Stanley Baker
, Juliet Prowse, Bob Courtney
|| Drama || Afrikaans, English||
|-
| All the Way to Paris
|| Jamie Uys
|| Jamie Uys
, Joe Stewardson
, Emil Nofal
|| || ||
|-
| African Gold || || || || ||
|-
| Coast of Skeletons || || || || ||
|-
| | 1966
|-
| The Naked Prey
|| Cornel Wilde
|| Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu
, Patrick Mynhardt
|| Adventure || English, Africaans, Nguni languages|| co-produced with U.S.
|-
| | 1967
|-
| After You, Comrade || Jamie Uys
|| || || ||
|-
| Seven Against the Sun || || || || ||
|-
| | 1968
|-
| Oupa for sale || || || || ||
|-
| Die Ruiter in die nag || || || || ||
|-
| Doctor Kalie || || || || ||
|-
|-
| | 1969
|-
| Die Geheim van Nantes || || || || ||
|-
| Lost in the Desert
|| Jamie Uys
|| Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys
& Pieter Hauptfleisch || Adventure || English, Afrikaans||
|-
| Katrina (film)
|| Jans Rautenbach
||Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland & Don Leonard
|| || ||
|-
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Language!! Notes
|-
| | 1970
|-
| Vicki
|| Ivan Hall || Sandra Britz , Leonie Ross, Johan Esterhuizen || Romance||Afrikaans|| Filmed in South Africa - Durban, Margate
|-
| Shangani Patrol
|| David Millin || Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins
|| War || || Filmed in Rhodesia
|-
| | 1971
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1972
|-
| Kaptein Caprivi || || || || ||
|-
| Those Naughty Angels || Neil Hetherington || || Family Adventure || ||
|-
| | 1973
|-
| Mr Kingstreet's War || || || || ||
|-
| Die Voortrekkers || || || || ||
|-
| Snip en Rissiepit || || || || ||
|-
| | 1974
|-
| Animals Are Beautiful People
|| Jamie Uys
||Paddy O'Byrne ||Comedy-documentary || English ||
|-
| Boesman and Lena
|| Ross Devenish
|| Athol Fugard
|| || ||
|-
| Ongewenste Vreemdeling || || || || ||
|-
| Dans van die Flamink || || || || ||
|-
| Dooie Duikers deel nie || || || || ||
|-
| | 1975
|-
| Dingetjie is Dynamite || || || || ||
|-
| | 1976
|-
| e'Lollipop|| || Muntu Ndebele & Norman Knox || || ||
|-
| Albino
|| Jürgen Goslar
|| Christopher Lee
, James Faulkner
& Sybil Danning
|| Thriller || English || Filmed in Rhodesia
|-
| | 1977
|-
| Tigers Don't Cry || || || || ||
|-
| Funeral for an Assassin
|| Ivan Hall || Vic Morrow
|| Crime
|| English
||
|-
| | 1978
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1979
|-
| Night of the Puppets || Daan Retief || || || ||
|-
| Plekkie in die Son || William Faure || || || ||
|-
| The Gods Must Be Crazy
|| Jamie Uys
|| N!xau
, Sandra Prinsloo
, Marius Weyers
, Louw Verwey || Comedy || || English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi ||
|}
|-
! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
|-
| | 1980
|-
| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Marigolds in August
||Ross Devenish
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
|-
| | 1981
|-
| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
|| ||
|-
| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
|| ||
|-
| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
|-
| | 1982
|-
| ' || || || ||
|-
| | 1983
|-
| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
|| || ||
|-
| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
|| ||
|-
| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
|-
| | 1984
|-
| You're in the Movies
|| Emil Nofal
|| || ||
|-
| | 1985
|-
| King Solomon's Mines
|| J. Lee Thompson
|| Richard Chamberlain
, Sharon Stone
, Herbert Lom
, John Rhys-Davies
|| ||
|-
| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
|-
| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
|-
| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
|| ||
|-
| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
|-
| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
|| Bill Flynn
, Amanda Forrow || ||
|-
| | 1986
|-
| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
|-
| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
|-
| Outlaw of Gor
|| John Cardos
|| || ||
|-
| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1987
|-
| Across the Rubicon || || || ||
|-
| An African Dream || || || ||
|-
| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
|| || ||
|-
| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
|-
| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
|-
| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
|-
| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
|-
| Platoon Leader
|| Aaron Norris
|| || ||
|-
| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
|| || ||
|-
| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
|| || ||
|-
| Tusks || Tara Moore
|| || ||
|-
| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
|-
| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
|-
| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
|-
| | 1988
|-
| Alien from L.A.
|| Albert Pyun
|| || ||
|-
| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
|-
| Act of Piracy
|| || || ||
|-
| Any Man's Death || || || ||
|-
| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
, Jana Cilliers || ||
|-
| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
|| ||
|-
| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
|| || ||
|-
| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
|-
| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
|-
| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
, Charles Mariott || || ||
|-
| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
|| Lucky Dube
|| ||
|-
| Mapantsula
|| Oliver Schmitz
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
|-
| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
|-
| Nightslave || John Parr
|| || ||
|-
| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
|-
| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
|| || ||
|-
| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
|-
| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
|| ||
|-
| Space Mutiny
|| David Winters
|| Cameron Mitchell
|| Sci Fi
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
|-
| Terminal Bliss || Jordan Alan
|| || ||
|-
| Thrilled to Death || Chuck Vincent || || ||
|-
| Van der Merwe P.I. || Regardt van den Bergh
|| Anneline Kriel
, Regardt van den Bergh
|| ||
|-
| Whispers || Robert Bergman || || ||
|-
| You're Famous || Yehuda Barkan
|| || Hidden Camera || Israeli co-production
|-
| The Zambezi Kid || Denis Scully || || ||
|-
| | 1989
|-
| Africa Express
|| || || ||
|-
| Killer Instinct
|| David Lister || Joanna Weinberg || ||
|-
| Lambarene || Gray Hofmeyr
|| || ||
|-
| The Gods Must Be Crazy II
|| Jamie Uys
|| || ||
|-
| The Native Who caused all the Trouble || Manie van Rensburg || || ||
|-
| Odd Ball Hall || Jackson Hunsicker || || ||
|-
| Oh Schucks!...!Here Comes U*N*T*A*G || Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster!
|| Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| Okavango (Wild Country) || Wayne Crawford
, Danie Odendaal, Percival Rubens || || ||
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| On the Wire || Elaine Proctor
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| Prey for the Hunter || John Parr
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| That Englishwoman || Dirk de Villiers || Veronica Lang || ||
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| Voices in the Dark || Vincent Cox || Lucky Dube
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| Warriors from Hell || Ronnie Isaacs || || ||
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| Windprints || David Wicht || Marius Weyers
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! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
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| | 1990
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| Agter elke man
|| || Steve Hofmeyr
en Dulcie van den Bergh || ||
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| Circles in a Forest
|| Regardt van den Bergh
|| Ian Bannen
, Brion James
and Joe Stewardson
|| Drama ||
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| | 1991
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| A.W.O.L. || || || ||
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| The Angel, the Bicycle and the Chinaman's Finger || || || ||
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| | 1992
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| Sweet 'n Short
|| Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| | 1993
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| Friends
|| Elaine Proctor
|| || ||Entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival
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| There's a Zulu On My Stoep
|| Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| | 1994
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| ' || || || ||
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| | 1995
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| Cry, The Beloved Country
|| || || || Based on a novel by Alan Paton
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| | 1996
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| Anna || || || ||
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| | 1997
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| Danger Zone
|| || Billy Zane
, Robert Downey Junior || || US and CAN
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| Amnesty
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| Panic Mechanic || Leon Schuster
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| | 1998
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| African Violet || || || ||
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| Paljas
|| Katinka Heyns || || || 5 MNET All-Africa Film Awards, South African submission to 70th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
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| Sweepers
|| ||Dolph Lundgren
|| Action || Set in a mine in Angola
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| | 1999
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| Aces || || || ||
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| Africa || || || ||
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| After the Rain
|| || || ||
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| Millennium menace || Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| The Man Who Would Kill Kitchener || François Verster
|| || Documentary || Biography of Fritz Joubert Duquesne. 1999 NTVA Silver Stone & Stone Craft Award ||
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! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
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| | 2000
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| Angels in a Cage || || Jeremy Crutchley, Sylvaine Strike
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| Apostles of Civilised Vice || || || ||
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| Hijack Stories
|| Oliver Schmitz
|| || || Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
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| Glory Glory
|| || Paul Johannsen, Steven Bauer
, Amanda Donohoe
, Gideon Emery
, Ana Alexander
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| | 2001
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| Mr Bones
|| Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster, David Ramsey
, Faizon Love
, Robert Whitehead
, Jane Benney || Comedy
|| Highest-grossing film in South Africa on release.
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| Diamond Cut Diamond || Darrell Roodt
|| Gary Daniels
, Nick Boraine, Gideon Emery
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| | 2002
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| Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
|| || || Documentary ||
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| The Sorcerer's Apprentice
|| David Lister
|| Robert Davi
, Kelly LeBrock
, Gideon Emery
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| | 2003
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| Adrenaline || || || ||
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| Red Water
|| Charles Robert Carner || Lou Diamond Phillips
, Kristy Sawnson, Gideon Emery
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| | 2004
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| Boy called Twist
|| || Kim Engelbrecht
|| ||
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| Cape of Good Hope
|| Mark Bamford
|| Debbie Brown, Eriq Ebouaney
, Nthathi Moshesh, Gideon Emery
|| ||
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| Drum
|| || Taye Diggs
|| ||
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| A Case of Murder
|| Clive Morris || Steve Hofmeyr
, Candice Hillebrand
, Gideon Emery
, Anthony Fridjhon, Ben Kruger, Nicky Rebello, Ramalao Makhene
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| Forgiveness || || Zane Meas, Arnold Vosloo
, Quanita Adams
|| ||
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| Max and Mona || || || ||
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| Oh Shucks, I'm Gatvol! || Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela
, Gerry the Clown, Bill Flynn
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| Yesterday || Darrell Roodt
|| Leleti Khumalo
|| || Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
at the 77th Academy Awards
|| ||
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| | 2005
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| Engagement || || Caroline Nicou || Romantic comedy ||
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| The Flyer || || Kim Engelbrecht
|| ||
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| Mama Jack
|| Leon Schuster
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| Tsotsi
|| Gavin Hood
|| Presley Chweneyagae
, Ian Roberts
, Zola
, Terry Pheto || || Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
at the 78th Academy Awards
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| U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
|| Mark Dornford-May
|| || || Won Golden Bear
at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival
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| | 2006
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| Bunny Chow
|| || Kim Engelbrecht
|| ||
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| Angels in the Dust
|| || || ||
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| Faith Like Potatoes
|| Regardt van den Bergh
|| Frank Rautenbach, Hamilton Dlamini || Inspirational/Docu-Drama ||
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| Son of Man
|| Mark Dornford-May
|| || ||
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| | 2007
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| Anner House || || || ||
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| Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop
|| Vusi Magubane & Erin Offer || || Documentary ||
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| Ouma se Slim Kind || || Quinne Brown || ||
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| Tengers
||Michael Rix
|| ||Animation
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| | 2008
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| Jerusalema
|| || || ||
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|Mr Bones 2: Back from the Past
|| Gray Hofmeyer || Leon Schuster || Comedy || Highest-grossing film in South Africa on release.
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| The World Unseen
|| Shamim Sarif
|| Lisa Ray
, Sheetal Sheth
|| Drama
||
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| | 2009
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| District 9
|| Neill Blomkamp
|| Sharlto Copley
|| Science fiction
|| Nominated for Best Film at the 82nd Academy Awards
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| Invictus
|| Clint Eastwood
|| Matt Damon
|| Drama non fiction ||
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| Mr. Nobody
||Jaco Van Dormael
||Sarah Polley
, Jared Leto
, Diane Kruger
, Rhys Ifans
||Science fiction film
||Belgian-Canadian-French-German-South Africa-British-America co-production; most expensive Belgian film to date
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| | 2010
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| Five Roads to Freedom: From Apartheid to the World Cup
|| Robin Benger & Jane Thandi Lipman
|| || Documentary
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| Life, Above All
|| Oliver Schmitz
|| || Drama
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! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Genre !! Notes
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| | 2011
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| Beauty
||Oliver Hermanus || || || Scheduled to compete in the Un Certain Regard
at Cannes
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
or by the South African film industry
Cinema of South Africa
The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa.-List of South African films:* Sarie Marais * Die kaskenades van Dr...
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1910s-1940s
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| 1916 1916 in film The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star.... |
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| De Voortrekkers | Harold Shaw Harold M. Shaw -Selected filmography:* The Land Beyond the Sunset * Lawyer Quince * The Firm of Girdlestone * Me and Me Moke * The Last Challenge * Die Rose von Rhodesia * The Pursuit of Pamela... |
Dick Cruickshanks, Goba | Historical epic | South Africa's white supremacist Birth of a Nation depicts Boer pioneers' northward expansion | |
| An Artist's Dream | Denis Sanbry | Dick Cruickshanks | Romantic drama | Animation | |
| 1919 1919 in film The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists... |
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| Allan Quatermain Allan Quatermain Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.- History :... |
Lisle Lucoque | Ray Brown, George Taylor George Taylor George Taylor may refer to:*George Taylor , soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo*George Taylor , see List of Sydney Swans players... |
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| 1931 1931 in film -Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:*Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM*Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul*Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ*Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... |
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| Sarie Marais | Joseph Albrecht | Billy Mathews | Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape... |
First South African film with sound | |
| 1948 1948 in film The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :... |
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| Die kaskenades van Dr. Kwak | Afrikaans | ||||
| 1949 1949 in film The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello... |
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| Kom saam, vanaand | Afrikaans | ||||
| Sarie Marais | Francis Coley | Afrikaans | Remake of 1931 film |
1950s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Language | Notes |
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| 1950 1950 in film The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush... |
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| 1951 1951 in film The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:... |
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| Alles sal Regkom | Pierre de Wet | Al Debbo Al Debbo Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :... |
Comedy | Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape... |
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| Daar doer in die bosveld | Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
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| 1952 1952 in film The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.... |
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| Altyd in my drome | Pierre de Wet | Al Debbo Al Debbo Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :... |
Musical Comedy | Afrikaans | |
| 1953 1953 in film The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A... |
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| 1954 1954 in film The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda... |
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| 1955 1955 in film The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released.... |
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| Matieland! | Pierre de Wet | Steyn de Jager, Wynona Cheyney, Frederik Burgers | Romantic Comedy | Afrikaans | |
| 1956 1956 in film The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by... |
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| 1957 1957 in film The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:... |
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| 1958 1958 in film The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946.... |
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| 1959 1959 in film The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.... |
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| Come Back, Africa Come Back, Africa Come Back, Africa is the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African Cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the unique heritage of the... |
Lionel Rogosin Lionel Rogosin Lionel Rogosin was a maverick independent American filmmaker who helped pioneer a form of non-fiction filmmaking influenced by the traditions of Robert Flaherty and Italian neorealism.-Early life:... |
Bloke Modisane, Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist.... |
Documentary | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... , Fanakalo, Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape... , Zulu Zulu language Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population... |
1960s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Language | Notes |
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| 1960 1960 in film The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I... |
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| 1961 1961 in film The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB... |
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| 1962 1962 in film The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government.... |
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| Lord Oom Piet | Afrikaans Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape... |
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| 1963 1963 in film The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.... |
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| The Anatomy of Apartheid | Documentary | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| 1964 1964 in film The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released.... |
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| 1965 1965 in film The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:... |
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| Dingaka Dingaka Dingaka is a 1965 film by South African director Jamie Uys with the soundtrack by Bertha Egnos, Eddie Domingo and Basil Gray.-Synopsis:Dingaka tells the story of a tribesman, Ntuku Makwena, who avenges the murder of his daughter according to custom tribal laws... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
Ken Gampu Ken Gampu Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys... , Stanley Baker Stanley Baker Sir Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer.-Early career:William Stanley Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. In the mid-1930s his parents moved to London, where Baker spent most of his formative years... , Juliet Prowse, Bob Courtney Bob Courtney Bob Courtney was a British-born South African actor and broadcaster. Courtney appeared in more than twenty film roles and worked as an on-air presenter and broadcaster on Springbok Radio. Additionally, Courtney co-founded Radio Today in 1996.Courtney was born Christopher Robert Courtney Leaver on... |
Drama | Afrikaans, English | |
| All the Way to Paris All the Way to Paris All the Way to Paris is a 1965 South African comedy film directed by Jamie Uys and starring Uys, Bob Courtney and Reinet Maasdorf. International diplomats take part in a walking competition, heading towards a major conference in Paris.-Cast:... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... , Joe Stewardson Joe Stewardson -Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood... , Emil Nofal Emil Nofal Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor... |
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| 1966 1966 in film The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer... |
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| The Naked Prey The Naked Prey The Naked Prey is a 1966 adventure film starring Cornel Wilde, who also directed and produced. It was released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the South African veld, the film is a wilderness survival story loosely based on the experiences of explorer John Colter, who was pursued by Blackfoot... |
Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City... |
Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu Ken Gampu Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys... , Patrick Mynhardt Patrick Mynhardt Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera... |
Adventure | English, Africaans, Nguni languages | co-produced with U.S. |
| 1967 1967 in film The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television.... |
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| After You, Comrade | Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
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| Seven Against the Sun | |||||
| 1968 1968 in film The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :... |
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| Oupa for sale | |||||
| Die Ruiter in die nag | |||||
| Doctor Kalie | |||||
| 1969 1969 in film The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980... |
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| Die Geheim van Nantes | |||||
| Lost in the Desert Lost in the Desert Lost in the Desert is a South African film from 1969/1970, written and directed by Jamie Uys, who also directed the better-known The Gods Must Be Crazy. Prominent roles were played by Wynand Uys as Dirkie Hayes , Jamie Uys as Anton Hayes , and Pieter Hauptfleisch as Uncle Pete... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... & Pieter Hauptfleisch |
Adventure | English, Afrikaans | |
| Katrina (film) Katrina (film) Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal... |
Jans Rautenbach Jans Rautenbach Jans Rautenbach is a South African screenwriter, film producer and director. His 1968 film Die Kandidaat proved controversial and received some censorship in South Africa, because of perceived criticism of the apartheid system.-Selected filmography:... |
Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland & Don Leonard Don Leonard Don Leonard is a South African film actor.- Filmography :- Further reading :* Tomaselli, Keyan . The Cinema of Apartheid — Race and Class in South African Film. Routledge . ISBN 9780415026284.... |
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1970s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Language | Notes | |
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| 1970 1970 in film The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career.... |
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| Vicki Vicki (film) Vicki is a film noir directed by Harry Horner and based on the novel I Wake Up Screaming, written by Steve Fisher. The picture is a remake of the 1941 film I Wake Up Screaming also released by 20th Century Fox.-Plot:... |
Ivan Hall | Sandra Britz , Leonie Ross, Johan Esterhuizen | Romance | Afrikaans | Filmed in South Africa - Durban, Margate | |
| Shangani Patrol Shangani Patrol (film) Shangani Patrol is a war film based upon the non-fiction book "A Time to Die" by Robert Cary , and the historical accounts of the Shangani Patrol, with Brian O'Shaughnessy as Major Allan Wilson and Will Hutchins as the lead Scout Frederick Russell Burnham... |
David Millin | Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins Will Hutchins Will Hutchins is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.-Biography:... |
War | Filmed in Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965... |
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| 1971 1971 in film The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music... |
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| 1972 1972 in film The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB... |
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| Kaptein Caprivi | ||||||
| Those Naughty Angels | Neil Hetherington | Family Adventure | ||||
| 1973 1973 in film The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra.... |
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| Mr Kingstreet's War | ||||||
| Die Voortrekkers | ||||||
| Snip en Rissiepit | ||||||
| 1974 1974 in film The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J... |
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| Animals Are Beautiful People Animals Are Beautiful People Animals Are Beautiful People is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
Paddy O'Byrne | Comedy-documentary | English | ||
| Boesman and Lena Boesman and Lena Boesman and Lena is a play by South Africa's Athol Fugard.The play was inspired by an incident in 1965 when Fugard was driving down a rural road in South Africa. He noticed an old lady walking along the road in the boiling-hot sun, miles from anywhere, and offered her a lift. She was overcome and... |
Ross Devenish Ross Devenish Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:... |
Athol Fugard Athol Fugard Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood... |
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| Dooie Duikers deel nie | ||||||
| 1975 1975 in film The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.... |
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| Dingetjie is Dynamite | ||||||
| 1976 1976 in film The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film... |
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| e'Lollipop | Muntu Ndebele & Norman Knox | |||||
| Albino Albino (film) Albino is a 1976 German thriller directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian bush war... |
Jürgen Goslar Jürgen Goslar Jürgen Goslar is a German actor and director.-Selected filmography:* The Last Witness * Derrick - Season 3, Episode 9: "Ein unbegreiflicher Typ"... |
Christopher Lee Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films... , James Faulkner James Faulkner James Sebastian Faulkner is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, usually in supporting roles.Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972... & Sybil Danning Sybil Danning Sybil Danning is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B movies, science fiction films, and action films.-Early life:Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger... |
Thriller | English | Filmed in Rhodesia | |
| 1977 1977 in film The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.... |
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| Funeral for an Assassin Funeral for an Assassin Funeral for an Assassin is a 1977 American / South Africa film directed by Ivan Hall.- Cast :*Vic Morrow as Michael Cardiff*Peter Van Dissel as Capt... |
Ivan Hall | Vic Morrow Vic Morrow Victor "Vic" Morrow was an American actor whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television... |
Crime Crime Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction... |
English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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| 1978 1978 in film The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California.... |
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| 1979 1979 in film The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.... |
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| Night of the Puppets | Daan Retief | |||||
| Plekkie in die Son | William Faure | |||||
| The Gods Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond... |
Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala... |
N!xau N!xau Nǃxau ǂToma was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo... , Sandra Prinsloo Sandra Prinsloo Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy.... , Marius Weyers Marius Weyers Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy . He recently starred in Blood Diamond.-Selected filmography:... , Louw Verwey |
Comedy | English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi |
1980s
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1980 in film
- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
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| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Marigolds in August
Marigolds in August (film)
Marigolds in August is a 1980 South African drama film directed by Ross Devenish, based on the play of the same name by Athol Fugard. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-Cast:...
||Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:...
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
30th Berlin International Film Festival
The 30th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 18 to February 29, 1980.-Jury:* Ingrid Thulin * Betsy Blair* Mathieu Carrière* Alberto Isaac* Peter Kern* Károly Makk* Alexander Mitta* Alexandre Trauner...
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| | 1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
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| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel is a South African model and actress. She won the 1974 Miss World contest at age 19, representing South Africa, after UK's Helen Morgan had resigned only four days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to win the title...
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| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
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| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
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| | 1982
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
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| | 1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...
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| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
Franz Marx
Franz Marx is an Austrian sport wrestler.He was born in Innsbruck.Together with Anton Marchl he was one of the Austrian wrestlers, who qualified last for the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992.-Successes:...
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
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| | 1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
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| You're in the Movies
You're in the Movies
is a party game for the Xbox 360 that is bundled with the Xbox Live Vision Camera, developed by Zoë Mode. It was released by Codemasters in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2008, and in Australia and Japan in 2009. The game is a process of filming a movie on one of the 30 scenarios that...
|| Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
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| | 1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
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| King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)
King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action and adventure film loosely based on the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson...
|| J. Lee Thompson
J. Lee Thompson
John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...
|| Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
George Richard Chamberlain is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare .-Early life:...
, Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
, Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
, John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
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| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
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| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and had an NG Kerk upbringing. He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the...
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
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| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera...
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| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
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| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
|| Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Amanda Forrow || ||
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| | 1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
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| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
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| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
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| Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor is a 1989 American film directed by John Cardos. It is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman, but has strong plot differences from the original book Outlaw of Gor . It is the sequel to Gor , and is also known as "Gor II". It was parodied on the television show Mystery...
|| John Cardos
John Cardos
-Filmography:* Kingdom of the Spiders * The Dark * Mutant * Outlaw of Gor * Act of Piracy -External links:...
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| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze was a South African heavyweight boxer.-Boxing career:...
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
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| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce A. MacFarlane, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian lawyer, Crown prosecutor, legal scholar, and former federal and provincial Department of Justice official.-Education:...
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| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
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| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
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| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
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| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
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| Platoon Leader
Platoon leader
A platoon leader or platoon commander is the officer in command of a platoon. This person is usually a junior officer — a second or first lieutenant, or an equivalent rank. The officer is usually assisted by a platoon sergeant...
|| Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris is an American film producer, director, and actor.-Personal information:Norris, who is of Irish descent, is the younger brother of Chuck Norris. During the Vietnam war, both Aaron and his older brother Wieland Clyde Norris enlisted in the United States Army...
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| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson is a jazz guitarist and composer. He is the son of bandleader Gerald Wilson.- Education and career :Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1968, Wilson received his degree in music composition from Bennington College. He counts Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery, and T-Bone Walker...
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| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| Tusks || Tara Moore
Tara Moore
Tara Shanice Moore is an English professional tennis player. She is currently the British no. 8 and ranked 321 in the world . So far in her career she has won 3 ITF singles titles, 2 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world no...
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| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
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| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
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| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
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| Alien from L.A.
Alien from L.A.
Alien From L.A. is a 1988 science fiction film that stars Kathy Ireland as a young woman who visits the underground civilization of Atlantis. The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...
|| Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
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| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
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| Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy is a 1990 American thriller film directed by John Cardos and starring Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer and Ray Sharkey. While enjoying an exotic cruise to Australia, a family yacht is taken over by terrorists...
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| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Jana Cilliers || ||
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| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although her books were translated into fourteen other languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic....
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| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson is an English professional footballer who plays for Oldham Athletic on loan from Huddersfield Town. He is a forward.-Early life:...
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| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
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| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
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| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw, FRGS, born in Auckland, New Zealand on 15 June 1944, is a British film director, writer, and producer in the arena of television and feature films....
, Charles Mariott || || ||
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| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
|| Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
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| Mapantsula
Mapantsula
Mapantsula is a 1988 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Thomas Mogotlane - Panic* Marcel Van Heerden - Stander* Thembi Mtshali - Pat...
|| Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Ettore Scola*Claude Berri*David Robinson*Yelena Safonova*George Miller*Hector Olivera*Nastassja Kinski*Philippe Sarde*Robby Muller*William Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...
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| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
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| Nightslave || John Parr
John Parr
John Parr is an English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire". Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
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| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
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| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries...
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| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy....
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| Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny is a 1988 South African science-fiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun.- Plot :...
|| David Winters
David Winters (choreographer)
David Winters is an English-born American dancer, choreographer, producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Winters has participated in, directed and produced over 400 television series, specials, and motion pictures...
|| Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell (actor)
Cameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway actor with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City.-Early life and career:Born Cameron MacDowell Mitzel in...
|| Sci Fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....
This is a chronology of films produced in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
or by the South African film industry
Cinema of South Africa
The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa.-List of South African films:* Sarie Marais * Die kaskenades van Dr...
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1910s-1940s
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| | 1916
1916 in film
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star....
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| De Voortrekkers || Harold Shaw
Harold M. Shaw
-Selected filmography:* The Land Beyond the Sunset * Lawyer Quince * The Firm of Girdlestone * Me and Me Moke * The Last Challenge * Die Rose von Rhodesia * The Pursuit of Pamela...
|| Dick Cruickshanks, Goba || Historical epic || || South Africa's white supremacist Birth of a Nation depicts Boer pioneers' northward expansion
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| An Artist's Dream || Denis Sanbry || Dick Cruickshanks || Romantic drama || || Animation
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| | 1919
1919 in film
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...
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| Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.- History :...
|| Lisle Lucoque || Ray Brown, George Taylor
George Taylor
George Taylor may refer to:*George Taylor , soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo*George Taylor , see List of Sydney Swans players...
|| Adventure ||
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| | 1931
1931 in film
-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:*Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM*Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul*Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ*Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
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| Sarie Marais || Joseph Albrecht || Billy Mathews || || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
|| First South African film with sound
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| | 1948
1948 in film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :...
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| | 1949
1949 in film
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...
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| Sarie Marais || Francis Coley || || || Afrikaans || Remake of 1931 film
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1950s
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| | 1950
1950 in film
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...
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| | 1951
1951 in film
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
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| Alles sal Regkom || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
Al Debbo
Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
|| Comedy || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
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| Daar doer in die bosveld || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| | 1952
1952 in film
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
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| Altyd in my drome || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
Al Debbo
Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
|| Musical Comedy || Afrikaans||
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| | 1953
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...
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| | 1954
1954 in film
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda...
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| | 1955
1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....
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| Matieland! || Pierre de Wet ||Steyn de Jager, Wynona Cheyney, Frederik Burgers || Romantic Comedy || Afrikaans ||
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| | 1956
1956 in film
The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...
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| | 1957
1957 in film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...
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| | 1958
1958 in film
The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946....
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| | 1959
1959 in film
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....
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| Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa is the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African Cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the unique heritage of the...
|| Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin was a maverick independent American filmmaker who helped pioneer a form of non-fiction filmmaking influenced by the traditions of Robert Flaherty and Italian neorealism.-Early life:...
|| Bloke Modisane, Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....
|| Documentary || English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Fanakalo, Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
, Zulu
Zulu language
Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population...
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1960s
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| | 1960
1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...
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| | 1961
1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...
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| | 1962
1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....
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| Lord Oom Piet || || || || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
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| | 1963
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
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| The Anatomy of Apartheid || || || Documentary || English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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| | 1964
1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....
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| | 1965
1965 in film
The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
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| Dingaka
Dingaka
Dingaka is a 1965 film by South African director Jamie Uys with the soundtrack by Bertha Egnos, Eddie Domingo and Basil Gray.-Synopsis:Dingaka tells the story of a tribesman, Ntuku Makwena, who avenges the murder of his daughter according to custom tribal laws...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys...
, Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker
Sir Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer.-Early career:William Stanley Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. In the mid-1930s his parents moved to London, where Baker spent most of his formative years...
, Juliet Prowse, Bob Courtney
Bob Courtney
Bob Courtney was a British-born South African actor and broadcaster. Courtney appeared in more than twenty film roles and worked as an on-air presenter and broadcaster on Springbok Radio. Additionally, Courtney co-founded Radio Today in 1996.Courtney was born Christopher Robert Courtney Leaver on...
|| Drama || Afrikaans, English||
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| All the Way to Paris
All the Way to Paris
All the Way to Paris is a 1965 South African comedy film directed by Jamie Uys and starring Uys, Bob Courtney and Reinet Maasdorf. International diplomats take part in a walking competition, heading towards a major conference in Paris.-Cast:...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
, Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
, Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
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| Coast of Skeletons || || || || ||
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| | 1966
1966 in film
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...
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| The Naked Prey
The Naked Prey
The Naked Prey is a 1966 adventure film starring Cornel Wilde, who also directed and produced. It was released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the South African veld, the film is a wilderness survival story loosely based on the experiences of explorer John Colter, who was pursued by Blackfoot...
|| Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...
|| Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys...
, Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera...
|| Adventure || English, Africaans, Nguni languages|| co-produced with U.S.
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| | 1967
1967 in film
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....
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| After You, Comrade || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| Seven Against the Sun || || || || ||
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| | 1968
1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :...
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| Oupa for sale || || || || ||
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| Die Ruiter in die nag || || || || ||
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| Doctor Kalie || || || || ||
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| | 1969
1969 in film
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...
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| Die Geheim van Nantes || || || || ||
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| Lost in the Desert
Lost in the Desert
Lost in the Desert is a South African film from 1969/1970, written and directed by Jamie Uys, who also directed the better-known The Gods Must Be Crazy. Prominent roles were played by Wynand Uys as Dirkie Hayes , Jamie Uys as Anton Hayes , and Pieter Hauptfleisch as Uncle Pete...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
& Pieter Hauptfleisch || Adventure || English, Afrikaans||
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| Katrina (film)
Katrina (film)
Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal...
|| Jans Rautenbach
Jans Rautenbach
Jans Rautenbach is a South African screenwriter, film producer and director. His 1968 film Die Kandidaat proved controversial and received some censorship in South Africa, because of perceived criticism of the apartheid system.-Selected filmography:...
||Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland & Don Leonard
Don Leonard
Don Leonard is a South African film actor.- Filmography :- Further reading :* Tomaselli, Keyan . The Cinema of Apartheid — Race and Class in South African Film. Routledge . ISBN 9780415026284....
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1970s
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| | 1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....
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| Vicki
Vicki (film)
Vicki is a film noir directed by Harry Horner and based on the novel I Wake Up Screaming, written by Steve Fisher. The picture is a remake of the 1941 film I Wake Up Screaming also released by 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
|| Ivan Hall || Sandra Britz , Leonie Ross, Johan Esterhuizen || Romance||Afrikaans|| Filmed in South Africa - Durban, Margate
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| Shangani Patrol
Shangani Patrol (film)
Shangani Patrol is a war film based upon the non-fiction book "A Time to Die" by Robert Cary , and the historical accounts of the Shangani Patrol, with Brian O'Shaughnessy as Major Allan Wilson and Will Hutchins as the lead Scout Frederick Russell Burnham...
|| David Millin || Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins
Will Hutchins
Will Hutchins is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.-Biography:...
|| War || || Filmed in Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...
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| | 1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...
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| | 1972
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...
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| Kaptein Caprivi || || || || ||
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| Those Naughty Angels || Neil Hetherington || || Family Adventure || ||
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| | 1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
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| Mr Kingstreet's War || || || || ||
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| Die Voortrekkers || || || || ||
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| Snip en Rissiepit || || || || ||
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| | 1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...
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| Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
||Paddy O'Byrne ||Comedy-documentary || English ||
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| Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena is a play by South Africa's Athol Fugard.The play was inspired by an incident in 1965 when Fugard was driving down a rural road in South Africa. He noticed an old lady walking along the road in the boiling-hot sun, miles from anywhere, and offered her a lift. She was overcome and...
|| Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:...
|| Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...
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| | 1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....
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| Dingetjie is Dynamite || || || || ||
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| | 1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
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| Albino
Albino (film)
Albino is a 1976 German thriller directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian bush war...
|| Jürgen Goslar
Jürgen Goslar
Jürgen Goslar is a German actor and director.-Selected filmography:* The Last Witness * Derrick - Season 3, Episode 9: "Ein unbegreiflicher Typ"...
|| Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
, James Faulkner
James Faulkner
James Sebastian Faulkner is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, usually in supporting roles.Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972...
& Sybil Danning
Sybil Danning
Sybil Danning is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B movies, science fiction films, and action films.-Early life:Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger...
|| Thriller || English || Filmed in Rhodesia
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| | 1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
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| Funeral for an Assassin
Funeral for an Assassin
Funeral for an Assassin is a 1977 American / South Africa film directed by Ivan Hall.- Cast :*Vic Morrow as Michael Cardiff*Peter Van Dissel as Capt...
|| Ivan Hall || Vic Morrow
Vic Morrow
Victor "Vic" Morrow was an American actor whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television...
|| Crime
Crime
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...
|| English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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| | 1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....
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| | 1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....
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| Night of the Puppets || Daan Retief || || || ||
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| Plekkie in die Son || William Faure || || || ||
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| N!xau
N!xau
Nǃxau ǂToma was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo...
, Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy....
, Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy . He recently starred in Blood Diamond.-Selected filmography:...
, Louw Verwey || Comedy || || English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi ||
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1980s
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| | 1980
1980 in film
- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
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| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Marigolds in August
Marigolds in August (film)
Marigolds in August is a 1980 South African drama film directed by Ross Devenish, based on the play of the same name by Athol Fugard. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-Cast:...
||Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:...
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
30th Berlin International Film Festival
The 30th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 18 to February 29, 1980.-Jury:* Ingrid Thulin * Betsy Blair* Mathieu Carrière* Alberto Isaac* Peter Kern* Károly Makk* Alexander Mitta* Alexandre Trauner...
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| | 1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
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| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel is a South African model and actress. She won the 1974 Miss World contest at age 19, representing South Africa, after UK's Helen Morgan had resigned only four days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to win the title...
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| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
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| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
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| | 1982
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
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| | 1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...
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| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
Franz Marx
Franz Marx is an Austrian sport wrestler.He was born in Innsbruck.Together with Anton Marchl he was one of the Austrian wrestlers, who qualified last for the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992.-Successes:...
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
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| | 1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
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| You're in the Movies
You're in the Movies
is a party game for the Xbox 360 that is bundled with the Xbox Live Vision Camera, developed by Zoë Mode. It was released by Codemasters in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2008, and in Australia and Japan in 2009. The game is a process of filming a movie on one of the 30 scenarios that...
|| Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
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| | 1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
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| King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)
King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action and adventure film loosely based on the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson...
|| J. Lee Thompson
J. Lee Thompson
John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...
|| Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
George Richard Chamberlain is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare .-Early life:...
, Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
, Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
, John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
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| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
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| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and had an NG Kerk upbringing. He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the...
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
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| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera...
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| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
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| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
|| Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Amanda Forrow || ||
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| | 1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
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| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
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| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
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| Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor is a 1989 American film directed by John Cardos. It is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman, but has strong plot differences from the original book Outlaw of Gor . It is the sequel to Gor , and is also known as "Gor II". It was parodied on the television show Mystery...
|| John Cardos
John Cardos
-Filmography:* Kingdom of the Spiders * The Dark * Mutant * Outlaw of Gor * Act of Piracy -External links:...
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| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze was a South African heavyweight boxer.-Boxing career:...
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
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| Across the Rubicon || || || ||
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| An African Dream || || || ||
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| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce A. MacFarlane, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian lawyer, Crown prosecutor, legal scholar, and former federal and provincial Department of Justice official.-Education:...
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| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
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| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
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| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
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| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
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| Platoon Leader
Platoon leader
A platoon leader or platoon commander is the officer in command of a platoon. This person is usually a junior officer — a second or first lieutenant, or an equivalent rank. The officer is usually assisted by a platoon sergeant...
|| Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris is an American film producer, director, and actor.-Personal information:Norris, who is of Irish descent, is the younger brother of Chuck Norris. During the Vietnam war, both Aaron and his older brother Wieland Clyde Norris enlisted in the United States Army...
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| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson is a jazz guitarist and composer. He is the son of bandleader Gerald Wilson.- Education and career :Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1968, Wilson received his degree in music composition from Bennington College. He counts Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery, and T-Bone Walker...
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| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| Tusks || Tara Moore
Tara Moore
Tara Shanice Moore is an English professional tennis player. She is currently the British no. 8 and ranked 321 in the world . So far in her career she has won 3 ITF singles titles, 2 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world no...
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| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
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| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
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| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
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| Alien from L.A.
Alien from L.A.
Alien From L.A. is a 1988 science fiction film that stars Kathy Ireland as a young woman who visits the underground civilization of Atlantis. The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...
|| Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
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| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
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| Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy is a 1990 American thriller film directed by John Cardos and starring Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer and Ray Sharkey. While enjoying an exotic cruise to Australia, a family yacht is taken over by terrorists...
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| Any Man's Death || || || ||
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| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Jana Cilliers || ||
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| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although her books were translated into fourteen other languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic....
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| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson is an English professional footballer who plays for Oldham Athletic on loan from Huddersfield Town. He is a forward.-Early life:...
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| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
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| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
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| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw, FRGS, born in Auckland, New Zealand on 15 June 1944, is a British film director, writer, and producer in the arena of television and feature films....
, Charles Mariott || || ||
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| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
|| Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
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| Mapantsula
Mapantsula
Mapantsula is a 1988 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Thomas Mogotlane - Panic* Marcel Van Heerden - Stander* Thembi Mtshali - Pat...
|| Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Ettore Scola*Claude Berri*David Robinson*Yelena Safonova*George Miller*Hector Olivera*Nastassja Kinski*Philippe Sarde*Robby Muller*William Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...
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| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
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| Nightslave || John Parr
John Parr
John Parr is an English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire". Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
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| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
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| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries...
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| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy....
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| Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny is a 1988 South African science-fiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun.- Plot :...
|| David Winters
David Winters (choreographer)
David Winters is an English-born American dancer, choreographer, producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Winters has participated in, directed and produced over 400 television series, specials, and motion pictures...
|| Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell (actor)
Cameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway actor with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City.-Early life and career:Born Cameron MacDowell Mitzel in...
|| Sci Fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....
This is a chronology of films produced in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
or by the South African film industry
Cinema of South Africa
The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa.-List of South African films:* Sarie Marais * Die kaskenades van Dr...
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1910s-1940s
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| | 1916
1916 in film
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star....
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| De Voortrekkers || Harold Shaw
Harold M. Shaw
-Selected filmography:* The Land Beyond the Sunset * Lawyer Quince * The Firm of Girdlestone * Me and Me Moke * The Last Challenge * Die Rose von Rhodesia * The Pursuit of Pamela...
|| Dick Cruickshanks, Goba || Historical epic || || South Africa's white supremacist Birth of a Nation depicts Boer pioneers' northward expansion
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| An Artist's Dream || Denis Sanbry || Dick Cruickshanks || Romantic drama || || Animation
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| | 1919
1919 in film
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...
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| Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.- History :...
|| Lisle Lucoque || Ray Brown, George Taylor
George Taylor
George Taylor may refer to:*George Taylor , soldier in Texas army, died in the Battle of the Alamo*George Taylor , see List of Sydney Swans players...
|| Adventure ||
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| | 1931
1931 in film
-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:*Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM*Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul*Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ*Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
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| Sarie Marais || Joseph Albrecht || Billy Mathews || || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
|| First South African film with sound
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| | 1948
1948 in film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :...
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| Die kaskenades van Dr. Kwak || || || || Afrikaans ||
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| | 1949
1949 in film
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...
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| Kom saam, vanaand || || || || Afrikaans ||
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| Sarie Marais || Francis Coley || || || Afrikaans || Remake of 1931 film
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1950s
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| | 1950
1950 in film
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...
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| | 1951
1951 in film
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
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| Alles sal Regkom || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
Al Debbo
Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
|| Comedy || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
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| Daar doer in die bosveld || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| | 1952
1952 in film
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
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| Altyd in my drome || Pierre de Wet || Al Debbo
Al Debbo
Al Debbo was a South African comedian, singer and actor. As one of the most famous artists of his generation he made an enormous contribution to Afrikaans music and culture.- Early life :...
|| Musical Comedy || Afrikaans||
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| | 1953
1953 in film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...
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| | 1954
1954 in film
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda...
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| | 1955
1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....
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| Matieland! || Pierre de Wet ||Steyn de Jager, Wynona Cheyney, Frederik Burgers || Romantic Comedy || Afrikaans ||
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| | 1956
1956 in film
The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...
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| | 1957
1957 in film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...
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| | 1958
1958 in film
The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946....
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| | 1959
1959 in film
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....
|-
| Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa is the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African Cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the unique heritage of the...
|| Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin was a maverick independent American filmmaker who helped pioneer a form of non-fiction filmmaking influenced by the traditions of Robert Flaherty and Italian neorealism.-Early life:...
|| Bloke Modisane, Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....
|| Documentary || English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Fanakalo, Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
, Zulu
Zulu language
Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population...
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1960s
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| | 1960
1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...
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| | 1961
1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...
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| | 1962
1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....
|-
| Lord Oom Piet || || || || Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
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| | 1963
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....
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| The Anatomy of Apartheid || || || Documentary || English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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| | 1964
1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....
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| | 1965
1965 in film
The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
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| Dingaka
Dingaka
Dingaka is a 1965 film by South African director Jamie Uys with the soundtrack by Bertha Egnos, Eddie Domingo and Basil Gray.-Synopsis:Dingaka tells the story of a tribesman, Ntuku Makwena, who avenges the murder of his daughter according to custom tribal laws...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys...
, Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker
Sir Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer.-Early career:William Stanley Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. In the mid-1930s his parents moved to London, where Baker spent most of his formative years...
, Juliet Prowse, Bob Courtney
Bob Courtney
Bob Courtney was a British-born South African actor and broadcaster. Courtney appeared in more than twenty film roles and worked as an on-air presenter and broadcaster on Springbok Radio. Additionally, Courtney co-founded Radio Today in 1996.Courtney was born Christopher Robert Courtney Leaver on...
|| Drama || Afrikaans, English||
|-
| All the Way to Paris
All the Way to Paris
All the Way to Paris is a 1965 South African comedy film directed by Jamie Uys and starring Uys, Bob Courtney and Reinet Maasdorf. International diplomats take part in a walking competition, heading towards a major conference in Paris.-Cast:...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
, Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
, Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
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| Coast of Skeletons || || || || ||
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| | 1966
1966 in film
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...
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| The Naked Prey
The Naked Prey
The Naked Prey is a 1966 adventure film starring Cornel Wilde, who also directed and produced. It was released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the South African veld, the film is a wilderness survival story loosely based on the experiences of explorer John Colter, who was pursued by Blackfoot...
|| Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...
|| Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu
Ken Gampu was a South African actor.Before he began his career, Gampu was a physical training instructor, salesman, interpreter and police officer. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play, No Good Friday . His big break came in in the 1965 film Dingaka by Jamie Uys...
, Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera...
|| Adventure || English, Africaans, Nguni languages|| co-produced with U.S.
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| | 1967
1967 in film
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....
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| After You, Comrade || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| Seven Against the Sun || || || || ||
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| | 1968
1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :...
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| Oupa for sale || || || || ||
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| Die Ruiter in die nag || || || || ||
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| Doctor Kalie || || || || ||
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| | 1969
1969 in film
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...
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| Die Geheim van Nantes || || || || ||
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| Lost in the Desert
Lost in the Desert
Lost in the Desert is a South African film from 1969/1970, written and directed by Jamie Uys, who also directed the better-known The Gods Must Be Crazy. Prominent roles were played by Wynand Uys as Dirkie Hayes , Jamie Uys as Anton Hayes , and Pieter Hauptfleisch as Uncle Pete...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
& Pieter Hauptfleisch || Adventure || English, Afrikaans||
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| Katrina (film)
Katrina (film)
Katrina is a 1969 South African drama film directed by Jans Rautenbach and starring Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland and Don Leonard. The screenplay was written by Emil Nofal...
|| Jans Rautenbach
Jans Rautenbach
Jans Rautenbach is a South African screenwriter, film producer and director. His 1968 film Die Kandidaat proved controversial and received some censorship in South Africa, because of perceived criticism of the apartheid system.-Selected filmography:...
||Katinka Heyns, Jill Kirkland & Don Leonard
Don Leonard
Don Leonard is a South African film actor.- Filmography :- Further reading :* Tomaselli, Keyan . The Cinema of Apartheid — Race and Class in South African Film. Routledge . ISBN 9780415026284....
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1970s
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| | 1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....
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| Vicki
Vicki (film)
Vicki is a film noir directed by Harry Horner and based on the novel I Wake Up Screaming, written by Steve Fisher. The picture is a remake of the 1941 film I Wake Up Screaming also released by 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
|| Ivan Hall || Sandra Britz , Leonie Ross, Johan Esterhuizen || Romance||Afrikaans|| Filmed in South Africa - Durban, Margate
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| Shangani Patrol
Shangani Patrol (film)
Shangani Patrol is a war film based upon the non-fiction book "A Time to Die" by Robert Cary , and the historical accounts of the Shangani Patrol, with Brian O'Shaughnessy as Major Allan Wilson and Will Hutchins as the lead Scout Frederick Russell Burnham...
|| David Millin || Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins
Will Hutchins
Will Hutchins is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.-Biography:...
|| War || || Filmed in Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...
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| | 1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...
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| | 1972
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...
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| Kaptein Caprivi || || || || ||
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| Those Naughty Angels || Neil Hetherington || || Family Adventure || ||
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| | 1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
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| Mr Kingstreet's War || || || || ||
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| Snip en Rissiepit || || || || ||
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| | 1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...
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| Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
||Paddy O'Byrne ||Comedy-documentary || English ||
|-
| Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena is a play by South Africa's Athol Fugard.The play was inspired by an incident in 1965 when Fugard was driving down a rural road in South Africa. He noticed an old lady walking along the road in the boiling-hot sun, miles from anywhere, and offered her a lift. She was overcome and...
|| Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:...
|| Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...
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| | 1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....
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| Dingetjie is Dynamite || || || || ||
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| | 1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
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| e'Lollipop|| || Muntu Ndebele & Norman Knox || || ||
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| Albino
Albino (film)
Albino is a 1976 German thriller directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian bush war...
|| Jürgen Goslar
Jürgen Goslar
Jürgen Goslar is a German actor and director.-Selected filmography:* The Last Witness * Derrick - Season 3, Episode 9: "Ein unbegreiflicher Typ"...
|| Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
, James Faulkner
James Faulkner
James Sebastian Faulkner is a British actor, known for his many various appearance on television and in movies, usually in supporting roles.Faulkner made his big screen debut as Josef Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1972...
& Sybil Danning
Sybil Danning
Sybil Danning is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B movies, science fiction films, and action films.-Early life:Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger...
|| Thriller || English || Filmed in Rhodesia
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| | 1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
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| Tigers Don't Cry || || || || ||
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| Funeral for an Assassin
Funeral for an Assassin
Funeral for an Assassin is a 1977 American / South Africa film directed by Ivan Hall.- Cast :*Vic Morrow as Michael Cardiff*Peter Van Dissel as Capt...
|| Ivan Hall || Vic Morrow
Vic Morrow
Victor "Vic" Morrow was an American actor whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television...
|| Crime
Crime
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...
|| English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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| | 1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....
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| | 1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....
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| Night of the Puppets || Daan Retief || || || ||
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| Plekkie in die Son || William Faure || || || ||
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
|| N!xau
N!xau
Nǃxau ǂToma was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo...
, Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy....
, Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy . He recently starred in Blood Diamond.-Selected filmography:...
, Louw Verwey || Comedy || || English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi ||
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1980s
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| | 1980
1980 in film
- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
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| Kiepie en Kandas || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Marigolds in August
Marigolds in August (film)
Marigolds in August is a 1980 South African drama film directed by Ross Devenish, based on the play of the same name by Athol Fugard. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-Cast:...
||Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish
Ross Devenish is a South African film director. His 1980 film Marigolds in August, which entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Berlin Bear Anniversary Prize.-External links:...
|| || ||Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
30th Berlin International Film Festival
The 30th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 18 to February 29, 1980.-Jury:* Ingrid Thulin * Betsy Blair* Mathieu Carrière* Alberto Isaac* Peter Kern* Károly Makk* Alexander Mitta* Alexandre Trauner...
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| | 1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
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| Kill & Kill Again || Ivan Hall || Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel is a South African model and actress. She won the 1974 Miss World contest at age 19, representing South Africa, after UK's Helen Morgan had resigned only four days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to win the title...
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| My Country My Hat || David Bensusan || Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
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| Nommer Asseblief || Henk Hugo || || ||
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| | 1982
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
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| | 1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...
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| Funny People II || Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| Wolhaarstories || Bromley Cawood || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner || Franz Marx
Franz Marx
Franz Marx is an Austrian sport wrestler.He was born in Innsbruck.Together with Anton Marchl he was one of the Austrian wrestlers, who qualified last for the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992.-Successes:...
|| Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh || ||
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| | 1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
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| You're in the Movies
You're in the Movies
is a party game for the Xbox 360 that is bundled with the Xbox Live Vision Camera, developed by Zoë Mode. It was released by Codemasters in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2008, and in Australia and Japan in 2009. The game is a process of filming a movie on one of the 30 scenarios that...
|| Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
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| | 1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
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| King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)
King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action and adventure film loosely based on the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson...
|| J. Lee Thompson
J. Lee Thompson
John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...
|| Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
George Richard Chamberlain is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare .-Early life:...
, Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
, Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
, John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
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| Nag van Vrees || Jim Murray, Stanley Roup || || ||
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| Skating on Thin Uys || Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and had an NG Kerk upbringing. He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the...
|| Pieter-Dirk Uys, || Comedy ||
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| Vyfster: Die Slot || Sias Odendaal || Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Mynhardt
Patrick Beattie Mynhardt was a well known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and England, 100 local and international films, TV plays and serials as well as an opera...
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| Wie Die Laaste Lag || Koos Roets || || ||
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| You Gotta Be Crazy || Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal
Emil Nofal was a South African film director, producer and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:Director* Kimberley Jim * Wild Season * My Way * The Super-Jocks Actor...
|| Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Amanda Forrow || ||
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| | 1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
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| Liewe Hemel Genis || William Egan || || ||
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| Mountain of Hell || David Bensusan || || ||
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| Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor is a 1989 American film directed by John Cardos. It is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman, but has strong plot differences from the original book Outlaw of Gor . It is the sequel to Gor , and is also known as "Gor II". It was parodied on the television show Mystery...
|| John Cardos
John Cardos
-Filmography:* Kingdom of the Spiders * The Dark * Mutant * Outlaw of Gor * Act of Piracy -External links:...
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| Place of Weeping || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| You Must Be Joking! || Elmo De Witt || Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze
Kallie Knoetze was a South African heavyweight boxer.-Boxing career:...
, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Mike Schutte || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
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| Across the Rubicon || || || ||
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| An African Dream || || || ||
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| Kill Slade || Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce MacFarlane
Bruce A. MacFarlane, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian lawyer, Crown prosecutor, legal scholar, and former federal and provincial Department of Justice official.-Education:...
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| Murphy's Fault || Robert Smawley || || ||
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| No Hard Feelings || Charles Norton || || ||
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| Nukie || Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa || || ||
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| Operation Hit Squad || Tonie van der Merwe || || ||
|-
| Platoon Leader
Platoon leader
A platoon leader or platoon commander is the officer in command of a platoon. This person is usually a junior officer — a second or first lieutenant, or an equivalent rank. The officer is usually assisted by a platoon sergeant...
|| Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris
Aaron Norris is an American film producer, director, and actor.-Personal information:Norris, who is of Irish descent, is the younger brother of Chuck Norris. During the Vietnam war, both Aaron and his older brother Wieland Clyde Norris enlisted in the United States Army...
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| Die Posman || Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson is a jazz guitarist and composer. He is the son of bandleader Gerald Wilson.- Education and career :Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1968, Wilson received his degree in music composition from Bennington College. He counts Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery, and T-Bone Walker...
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| Tenth of A Second || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
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| Tusks || Tara Moore
Tara Moore
Tara Shanice Moore is an English professional tennis player. She is currently the British no. 8 and ranked 321 in the world . So far in her career she has won 3 ITF singles titles, 2 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world no...
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| Wereld Sonder Grense || Frans Nel || Scot Scott || ||
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| White Ghost || Beau Davis || || ||
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| You Must Be Joking! Too || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
, Lizz Meiring || || Hidden Camera ||
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| | 1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
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| Alien from L.A.
Alien from L.A.
Alien From L.A. is a 1988 science fiction film that stars Kathy Ireland as a young woman who visits the underground civilization of Atlantis. The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...
|| Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
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| Accidents || Gidi Amir || || Action/Thriller ||
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| Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy
Act of Piracy is a 1990 American thriller film directed by John Cardos and starring Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer and Ray Sharkey. While enjoying an exotic cruise to Australia, a family yacht is taken over by terrorists...
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| Any Man's Death || || || ||
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| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) || Francis Gerard || Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
, Jana Cilliers || ||
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| Fiela se Kind || Katinka Heyns || Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although her books were translated into fourteen other languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic....
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| Laser Mission || Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson
Robbie Simpson is an English professional footballer who plays for Oldham Athletic on loan from Huddersfield Town. He is a forward.-Early life:...
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| Last Samurai || Paul Mayersburg || || ||
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| Let the Music Be || Frans Nel || || ||
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| Love Me Leave Me || Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw
Alan Birkinshaw, FRGS, born in Auckland, New Zealand on 15 June 1944, is a British film director, writer, and producer in the arena of television and feature films....
, Charles Mariott || || ||
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| Lucky Strikes Back || Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
|| Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
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| Mapantsula
Mapantsula
Mapantsula is a 1988 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Thomas Mogotlane - Panic* Marcel Van Heerden - Stander* Thembi Mtshali - Pat...
|| Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
|| || || Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Ettore Scola*Claude Berri*David Robinson*Yelena Safonova*George Miller*Hector Olivera*Nastassja Kinski*Philippe Sarde*Robby Muller*William Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...
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| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive || Chris Marnham || || ||
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| Nightslave || John Parr
John Parr
John Parr is an English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire". Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
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| Options || Camilo Vila || || ||
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| Out on Bail || Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries...
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| Paradise Road (Traitors) || Jan Scholtz || || ||
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| Quest for Love || Helen Nogueira || Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo
Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy....
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| Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny is a 1988 South African science-fiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun.- Plot :...
|| David Winters
David Winters (choreographer)
David Winters is an English-born American dancer, choreographer, producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Winters has participated in, directed and produced over 400 television series, specials, and motion pictures...
|| Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell (actor)
Cameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway actor with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City.-Early life and career:Born Cameron MacDowell Mitzel in...
|| Sci Fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
|| Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....
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| Terminal Bliss || Jordan Alan
Jordan Alan
Jordan Alan is an American film director.In 1987 Alan founded the Terminal Bliss Productions, now owned by Terminal Bliss Pictures. He wrote and directed his first feature, Terminal Bliss, in 1988 and moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1991 he directed Cats Cradle and in 1992, Love and Happiness...
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| Thrilled to Death || Chuck Vincent || || ||
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| Van der Merwe P.I. || Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
|| Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel is a South African model and actress. She won the 1974 Miss World contest at age 19, representing South Africa, after UK's Helen Morgan had resigned only four days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to win the title...
, Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
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| Whispers || Robert Bergman || || ||
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| You're Famous || Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Barkan is an Israeli actor, film producer, film director and screenwriter.- Early life :Barkan was born in Netanya and was initially named Yehuda Ezekiel Berkowitz. In his childhood Barkan studied at the Bialik and ORT in schools in Netanya...
|| || Hidden Camera || Israeli co-production
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| The Zambezi Kid || Denis Scully || || ||
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| | 1989
1989 in film
-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...
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| Africa Express
Africa Express
Africa Express is a 1975 Italian adventure film starring Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, and Jack Palance that was filmed in Rhodesia .Plot Summary: John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit...
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| Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct (film)
Killer Instinct, released on video as Deadly Observation, is a 1988 television film directed by Waris Hussein.- Plot :Charlie is a young attorney assigned to the case of Freddy, a violent and uncontrollable man, about to be released from the hospital...
|| David Lister || Joanna Weinberg || ||
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| Lambarene || Gray Hofmeyr
Gray Hofmeyr
Gray Hofmeyr is a South African film and television director.In a career that spans almost three decades, Hofmeyr's films have touched many themes and genres.-Biography:...
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy II
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...
|| Jamie Uys
Jamie Uys
Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...
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| The Native Who caused all the Trouble || Manie van Rensburg || || ||
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| Odd Ball Hall || Jackson Hunsicker || || ||
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| Oh Schucks!...!Here Comes U*N*T*A*G || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster!
Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster!
Oh Schucks....It's Schuster! is a 1989 South African film. It is one of South Africa's candid camera king, Leon Schuster's movies.-Plot:In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa...
|| Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
|| Leon Schuster || ||
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| Okavango (Wild Country) || Wayne Crawford
Wayne Crawford
Wayne Crawford is an American film and television actor, and film producer, screenwriter, and director. Crawford has appeared in nearly thirty films, produced 15, written 9, and directed 7....
, Danie Odendaal, Percival Rubens || || ||
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| On the Wire || Elaine Proctor
Elaine Proctor
Elaine Proctor is a South African film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Filmography:* Sharpeville Spirit...
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| Prey for the Hunter || John Parr
John Parr
John Parr is an English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire". Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
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| That Englishwoman || Dirk de Villiers || Veronica Lang || ||
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| Voices in the Dark || Vincent Cox || Lucky Dube
Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
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| Warriors from Hell || Ronnie Isaacs || || ||
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| Windprints || David Wicht || Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy . He recently starred in Blood Diamond.-Selected filmography:...
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1990s
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| | 1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....
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| Agter elke man
Agter Elke Man
Agter Elke man is a television drama series which premiered on September 5, 1985 on TV1 .-Scheduling:After the second series, it was followed by the movie "Agter Elke Man" , released on 28 September 1990.-Main characters:...
|| || Steve Hofmeyr
Steve Hofmeyr
-Career:Hofmeyr matriculated in 1982 at Grey College. After two years compulsory army and border duty, he went to Pretoria Technikon Drama School.-Recording star and performer:...
en Dulcie van den Bergh || ||
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| Circles in a Forest
Circles in a Forest
Circles in a Forest is a 1990 South African drama film directed by Regardt van den Bergh and starring Ian Bannen, Brion James and Joe Stewardson. Saul Barnard befriends an elephant as a child, and later goes back to rescue it as a man. The film is adapted from a novel by Dalene Matthee.-Cast:* Ian...
|| Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
|| Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.-Early life and career:Bannen was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, the son of Clare and John James Bannen, a lawyer. Bannen served in the British Army after attending St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and Ratcliffe College,...
, Brion James
Brion James
Brion Howard James was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element...
and Joe Stewardson
Joe Stewardson
-Partial filmography:* All the Way to Paris * Wild Season * Katrina * My Way * Target of an Assassin * My Way II * Flatfoot in Africa * City of Blood...
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| | 1991
1991 in film
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
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| | 1992
1992 in film
The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...
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| Sweet 'n Short
Sweet 'n Short
Sweet 'n Short is a 1991 Leon Schuster movie made in South Africa. It was directed by Gray Hofmeyr.Tagline: Oh Schucks...it's the New South Africa!.- Plot :...
|| Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| | 1993
1993 in film
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...
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| Friends
Friends (1993 film)
Friends is a 1993 South African drama film directed by Elaine Proctor. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Cast:* Kerry Fox - Sophie* Dambisa Kente - Thoko* Michele Burgers - Aninka...
|| Elaine Proctor
Elaine Proctor
Elaine Proctor is a South African film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Filmography:* Sharpeville Spirit...
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1993 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :* Louis Malle * Claudia Cardinale * Inna Churikova * Judy Davis * Abbas Kiarostami * Emir Kusturica * William Lubtchansky * Tom Luddy * Gary Oldman * Augusto M...
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| There's a Zulu On My Stoep
There's a Zulu On My Stoep
There's a Zulu On My Stoep is a 1993 South African comedy film by the comedy filmmaker Gray Hofmeyr starring Leon Schuster and John Matshikiza...
|| Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| | 1994
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
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| | 1995
1995 in film
-Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....
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| Cry, The Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995 film)
Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1995 film directed by Darrell Roodt. Based on the novel Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton it stars James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. It features the song Exile by Enya. The score was composed by John Barry....
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Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.-Family:Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province , the son of a minor civil servant. After attending Maritzburg College, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Natal in his hometown, followed...
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| | 1996
1996 in film
Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
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| | 1997
1997 in film
-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
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| Danger Zone
Danger Zone (film)
Danger Zone is a 1996 film directed by Allan Eastman and starring Billy Zane and Robert Downey Jr.-Cast:* Billy Zane .... Rick Morgan* Robert Downey Jr. .... Jim Scott* Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa .... Monsieur Chang* Lisa Collins .... Dr. Kim Woods...
|| || Billy Zane
Billy Zane
William George "Billy" Zane, Jr. is an American actor, producer and director. He is probably best known for his roles as Caledon Hockley in Titanic, The Phantom from The Phantom, John Wheeler in Twin Peaks and Mr...
, Robert Downey Junior || || US and CAN
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| Amnesty
Amnesty (film)
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian drama film written and directed by Bujar Alimani. The film has been selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:...
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| Panic Mechanic || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| | 1998
1998 in film
-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
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| Paljas
Paljas
Paljas is a South African film, in the language of Afrikaans released in 1998. Paljas was written by Chris Barnard and directed by Katinka Heyns.-Awards:...
|| Katinka Heyns || || || 5 MNET All-Africa Film Awards, South African submission to 70th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
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| Sweepers
Sweepers (film)
Sweepers is a 1998 American and South African action film directed by Keoni Waxman. It stars Dolph Lundgren as Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola...
|| ||Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...
|| Action || Set in a mine in Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
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| | 1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
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| After the Rain
After the Rain
is a 1999 Japanese film. The story is based on the last script written by the late, legendary Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa and is directed by his former assistant director of 28 years, Takashi Koizumi. It was awarded a Japanese Academy Award in 1999...
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| Millennium menace || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| The Man Who Would Kill Kitchener || François Verster
François Verster
François Verster is a South African film director and documentary maker.He has a wide background in writing, music, academia and film. After completing an MA degree with distinction under literature Nobel Prize laureate JM Coetzee at the University of Cape Town, he worked with Barenholtz...
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| | 2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
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| Angels in a Cage || || Jeremy Crutchley, Sylvaine Strike
Sylvaine Strike
Sylvaine Strike is a South African actress, writer and theater director. She was born in Pretoria and studied in Cape Town, where she graduated with a Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama in 1993...
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| Hijack Stories
Hijack Stories
Hijack Stories is a 2000 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tony Kgoroge - Sox Moraka* Rapulana Seiphemo - Zama* Percy Matsemela - Fly...
|| Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
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2001 Cannes Film Festival
The 2001 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.-Jury:* Liv Ullmann, President * Mimmo Calopresti * Charlotte Gainsbourg...
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| Glory Glory
Glory Glory (2000 film)
Glory Glory is a 2000 western film. The film was also marketed under the title Hooded Angels.-Synopsis:It is the dawn of the Wild West in Silver Creek. A gang of beautiful but deadly women have unleashed violence on the society that failed to protect them, robbing banks and destroying everything...
|| || Paul Johannsen, Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer is a Cuban-American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, and his role on the bilingual PBS show Que Pasa, USA.-Early life:...
, Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe is an English film and television actress. She is known for her 1980s relationship with popstar Adam Ant and her later work on television — including L.A. Law and Emmerdale — and her roles in successful movies including Liar, Liar.-Early life:Donohoe was born in London, the daughter...
, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
, Ana Alexander
Ana Alexander
Ana Bella Alexander Lamothe is a retired female athlete from Cuba, who mainly competed in the women's long jump event during her career.-References:*...
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| | 2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
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| Mr Bones
Mr Bones
Mr. Bones is a 2001 slapstick comedy film made and set in South Africa. Leon Schuster, well-known figure in the South African film industry, starred in the title role. He also created the story and co-wrote the screenplay...
|| Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
|| Leon Schuster, David Ramsey
David Ramsey (actor)
David Ramsey is an American actor, best known for his roles in the Showtime TV series Dexter as Anton Briggs and the film Mother and Child.-Life and career:...
, Faizon Love
Faizon Love
Faizon Andre Love is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for roles in the films Friday, Elf, Made, and Couples Retreat.-Life and career:...
, Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead
Robert Whitehead was an English engineer. He developed the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo. His company, located in the Austrian naval centre in Fiume, was the world leader in torpedo development and production up to the First World War.- Early life:He was born the son of a...
, Jane Benney || Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
|| Highest-grossing film in South Africa on release.
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| Diamond Cut Diamond || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
|| Gary Daniels
Gary Daniels
Gary Edward Daniels is a British kickboxer and martial arts actor. Daniels appears mostly in action-oriented B-movies. Daniels has been in over 50 films since his start as an extra in an episode of the 1980s television series Miami Vice. He is best known for playing Kenshiro in the live-action...
, Nick Boraine, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
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| | 2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
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| Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music. The film takes its name from the Nguni word amandla, which means power.The film was Produced by Sherry Simpson Dean...
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| The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002 film)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 2002 fantasy film. Although set in England, the film was shot on location in South Africa.-Synopsis:Every hundred years, the evil Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from the wizard Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. For the last fourteen...
|| David Lister
David Lister (director)
David Lister is a South African-born film and television director, now residing in Australia.David Lister grew up on a farm in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. He trained as a painter and sculptor in Pretoria before being employed as a scene painter, set designer and head of the props department...
|| Robert Davi
Robert Davi
Robert John Davi is an American actor and singer. He has played such roles as Vietnam veteran and Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard, the villainous Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, and Al Torres in Showgirls...
, Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock is an American actress and model. Her acting debut was in The Woman in Red co-starring with comedian Gene Wilder. She also starred in the film Weird Science, directed by John Hughes.-Early life:...
, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
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| | 2003
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
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| Red Water
Red Water
Red Water is a 2003 made for television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Gideon Emery and Coolio.- Production and release :...
|| Charles Robert Carner || Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred in the film La Bamba. He earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in Stand and Deliver and a Tony Award nomination for his role in The King and I...
, Kristy Sawnson, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
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| | 2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
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| Boy called Twist
Boy called Twist
Boy called Twist, is a 2004 film that tells the story of a Cape Town street kid, based on Dickens’ classic, Oliver Twist. It was the first film directed by Timothy Greene...
|| || Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht is a South African actress best known for her role as Lolly van Onselen in the soap opera Isidingo.She also presented a local youth television program called Take5 in the 90's. Much of Engelbrecht's work is localised in Johannesburg...
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| Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope (film)
The Cape of Good Hope is a 2004 South African comedy drama film written and produced by Suzanne Kay Bamford and her husband Mark Bamford under the direction of Mark Bamford...
|| Mark Bamford
Mark Bamford
Mark Bamford was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but raised mostly in New York. He graduated from New York University in 1989 with a double major in French Literature and Linguistics and a minor in Anthropology...
|| Debbie Brown, Eriq Ebouaney
Eriq Ebouaney
Eriq Ebouaney is a French film actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham.-Early...
, Nthathi Moshesh, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
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| Drum
Drum (2004 film)
Drum is a 2004 film based on the life of South African investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo, who worked for the popular Drum magazine, called "the first black lifestyle magazine in Africa." It was director Zola Maseko's first film and deals with the issues of apartheid and the forced removal of...
|| || Taye Diggs
Taye Diggs
Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice...
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| A Case of Murder
A Case of Murder (film)
A Case of Murder is a 2004 action/crime/thriller film which had its release in South Africa on 2 July 2004.It was based on a true story of a hideous murder, where the victim's body was disposed of in a suitcase....
|| Clive Morris || Steve Hofmeyr
Steve Hofmeyr
-Career:Hofmeyr matriculated in 1982 at Grey College. After two years compulsory army and border duty, he went to Pretoria Technikon Drama School.-Recording star and performer:...
, Candice Hillebrand
Candîce Hillebrand
Candice Hillebrand is a South African-born actress and singer-songwriter. She has also worked as a presenter and model...
, Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
, Anthony Fridjhon, Ben Kruger, Nicky Rebello, Ramalao Makhene
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| Forgiveness || || Zane Meas, Arnold Vosloo
Arnold Vosloo
Arnold Vosloo is a South African American actor, best-known for playing Imhotep in The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as the role of the superhero Darkman in the sequel Darkman II: The Return of Durant and its 1996 sequel, Darkman III: Die Darkman Die...
, Quanita Adams
Quanita Adams
Quanita Adams is a Cape Town, South Africa-based stage and screen actress. She has performed in the movies Forgiveness along with Arnold Vosloo, Cape of Good Hope, and Skeem and has appeared on stage in notable plays Truth in Translation and At Her Feet...
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| Oh Shucks, I'm Gatvol! || Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
|| Leon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela
Alfred Ntombela
Alfred Ntombela is a South African actor, known for his role in South African candid genre films alongside Leon Schuster, his fast-paced Joker-like laugh and for his small stature as an adult....
, Gerry the Clown, Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn
Bill Flynn was a South African actor and comedian. He was born in Cape Town and matriculated from Plumstead High School...
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| Yesterday || Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt
Darrell Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer.His film Sarafina was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
|| Leleti Khumalo
Leleti Khumalo
Leleti Khumalo is a Zulu South African actress who played the leading role in the movie Sarafina! alongside Whoopi Goldberg and who starred in the films Hotel Rwanda and Yesterday.-Early life and Sarafina!:...
|| || Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 77th Academy Awards
77th Academy Awards
The 77th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2004 and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock.The nominees were announced on January 25, 2005...
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| | 2005
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
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| Engagement || || Caroline Nicou || Romantic comedy ||
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| The Flyer || || Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht is a South African actress best known for her role as Lolly van Onselen in the soap opera Isidingo.She also presented a local youth television program called Take5 in the 90's. Much of Engelbrecht's work is localised in Johannesburg...
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| Mama Jack
Mama Jack
Mama Jack is a 2005 Leon Schuster movie made in South Africa. It was directed by Gray Hofmeyr and distributed by Nu Metro.Tagline: He's hiding out... in someone else! or alternatively He's back... in black!-Plot:...
|| Leon Schuster
Leon Schuster
Leon Ernest "Schuks" Schuster is a South African filmmaker, comedian, actor, presenter and singer.- Early life :Schuster was drawn to the filmmaking process at an early age...
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| Tsotsi
Tsotsi
Tsotsi is a 2005 film written and directed by Gavin Hood. The film is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard. The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African...
|| Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi...
|| Presley Chweneyagae
Presley Chweneyagae
Presley Chweneyagae is a South African actor, best known for starring in the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards...
, Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts (South African actor)
Ian Roberts is a South African actor, playwright and singer. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in Afrikaans and Xhosa.-Early life:...
, Zola
Zola (entertainer)
Bonginkosi Dlamini, aka Zola, is a South African musician, actor and presenter. He also presents Zola 7, a television show named for him, on SABC 1.-Cultural Influences:...
, Terry Pheto || || Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 78th Academy Awards
78th Academy Awards
The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005 and were held on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, with Tom Kane making his first appearance as the show's announcer...
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| U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha is a 2005 South African operatic film directed and produced by Mark Dornford-May.-Production:The movie is a modern remake of Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. It was shot entirely in Xhosa, and combines both music from the original opera with traditional African music. It takes place...
|| Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May is a British-born South African theatre and film director.-Early life:Mark Dornford-May was born on his Grandfathers farm near Eastoft in Yorkshire. His paternal Grandfather was a miner on the Yorkshire coalfields...
|| || || Won Golden Bear
Golden Bear
According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....
at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
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| | 2006
2006 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...
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| Bunny Chow
Bunny Chow (film)
Bunny Chow is a South African comedy film by John Barker, partnered by MTV. It premiered on 7 September 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival....
|| || Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Engelbrecht is a South African actress best known for her role as Lolly van Onselen in the soap opera Isidingo.She also presented a local youth television program called Take5 in the 90's. Much of Engelbrecht's work is localised in Johannesburg...
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| Angels in the Dust
Angels in the Dust
"Angels in the Dust" is a documentary film by filmmaker Louise Hogarth.An inspiring story about Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist whose self-sacrificial courage motivates change and hope....
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| Faith Like Potatoes
Faith Like Potatoes
Faith Like Potatoes is a 2006 South African biographical drama film based on the 1988 book written by Angus Buchan, "Faith like Potatoes." It is written and directed by Regardt van den Bergh, and stars Frank Rautenbach, Jeanne Wilhelm, Hamilton Dhlamini, and Sean Michael Cameron...
|| Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh
Regardt van den Bergh is a South African film and television actor, film director and screenwriter.-Career:-Partial filmography:-External links:...
|| Frank Rautenbach, Hamilton Dlamini || Inspirational/Docu-Drama ||
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| Son of Man
Son of man
The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. The phrase is also used in Judaism and Christianity. The phrase used in the Greek, translated as Son of man is ὁ υἱὸς τοὺ ἀνθρώπου...
|| Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May
Mark Dornford-May is a British-born South African theatre and film director.-Early life:Mark Dornford-May was born on his Grandfathers farm near Eastoft in Yorkshire. His paternal Grandfather was a miner on the Yorkshire coalfields...
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| | 2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
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| Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop
Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop
Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop is a 49 minute documentary film that explores South African hip hop culture through the stories of women in hip hop. It was shot in 2006 and completed post-production in 2007...
|| Vusi Magubane & Erin Offer || || Documentary ||
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| Ouma se Slim Kind || || Quinne Brown || ||
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| Tengers
Tengers
Tengers is a 2007 South African animated film written, directed and produced by Michael J. Rix. It is the first full-length animation produced in South Africa and uses the claymation technique....
||Michael Rix
Michael Rix
Michael Rix is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Originally rookie listed with Hawthorn for the 2004 season, Rix did not play a game for the club but continued to be an important ruckman in the VFL with the Box Hill Hawks...
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Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
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2008 in film
This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...
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| Jerusalema
Jerusalema
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema, originally titled Jerusalema, is a 2008 South African crime film written and directed by Ralph Ziman. The film was submitted to the Academy Awards to qualify as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was not selected.-Production:Gangster's Paradise:...
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|Mr Bones 2: Back from the Past
Mr Bones 2: Back from the Past
Mr Bones 2: Back from the Past is a 2008 comedy film directed by Gray Hofmeyr, co-written by Gray Hofmeyr and Leon Schuster and starring Leon Schuster, Tongayi Chirisa, Leeanda Reddy, Kaseran Pillay, Meren Reddy...
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| The World Unseen
The World Unseen
The World Unseen is a 2008 historical drama film written and directed by Shamim Sarif, adapted from her own novel. The film is set in 1950s Cape Town, South Africa during the beginning of apartheid...
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Shamim Sarif
Shamim Sarif is a novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage. Her roots inspired her to write her award-winning debut novel, The World Unseen, which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality, which she later adapted into a film starring Lisa Ray, shown at the London Film...
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Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...
, Sheetal Sheth
Sheetal Sheth
Sheetal Sheth is an actress who is known for her wide range of roles in an impressive body of work in film, television, and theater. She has starred in many feature films, perhaps best known for starring opposite Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World...
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Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
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2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
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| District 9
District 9
District 9 is a 2009 South African science fiction thriller film directed by Neill Blomkamp. It was written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James...
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Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp is an Afrikaner-Canadian film and advertisement writer and director. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of critically acclaimed...
|| Sharlto Copley
Sharlto Copley
Sharlto Copley is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos...
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Science fiction film
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...
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82nd Academy Awards
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...
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| Invictus
Invictus (film)
Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World...
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Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
|| Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
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| Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody (film)
Mr. Nobody is a 2009 Belgian science fiction drama film directed by Jaco Van Dormael, starring Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, Sarah Polley, Natasha Little, Rhys Ifans and Daniel Mays. This movie tells the life story of Nemo Nobody, the last mortal on Earth. Nemo is 118 years old and lives...
||Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.- Biography :In the 1980s, he became interested in filmmaking and...
||Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
, Jared Leto
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor, director, producer, occasional model and musician. Leto has appeared in both big budget Hollywood films and smaller projects from independent producers and art houses. He rose to prominence for playing Jordan Catalano in the teenage drama My So-Called Life...
, Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger is a German actress and former fashion model. She is known for roles such as Helen in Troy, Dr. Abigail Chase in National Treasure and its sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds, Anna in Mr...
, Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill and Jed Parry in Enduring Love and as a member of the Welsh rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly...
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Science fiction film
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...
||Belgian-Canadian-French-German-South Africa-British-America co-production; most expensive Belgian film to date
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2010 in film
The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...
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| Five Roads to Freedom: From Apartheid to the World Cup
Five Roads to Freedom: From Apartheid to the World Cup
Five Roads to Freedom: From Apartheid to the World Cup is a 2010 documentary co-directed by Robin Benger and Jane Thandi Lipman that looks at South Africa's revolutionary transformation through the eyes of five men and women who lived under the shadow of apartheid.The documentary focuses on five...
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Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
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| Life, Above All
Life, Above All
Life, Above All is a 2010 South African drama film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and made the final...
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Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
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Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
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2011 in film
The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...
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| Beauty
Beauty (2011 film)
Beauty is a 2011 South African film directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...
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Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
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2011 Cannes Film Festival
The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition...
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External links
- South African film at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...